Like anywhere else in China the building work is ongoing and some people are making loads of money judging by the Range Rovers parked at the best restaurant car park, not to mention the fancy long dresses and fake designer handbags of the wife. Then there is the nanny to make sure the children behave well in public.
Most people still live in the traditional multi storey farmhouse type home where several generations live under one roof. They have a small vegetable batch at the back door and a very large front door (size important to usher the good fortune in). The New Year banners were still bright and intact, despite the rain. In addition most houses has a small chicken coop too, which explained the escaped chickens on the rather wide and grand central avenue.
Maybe one or two in ten houses has a solar panel, water tank and air conditioning unit on the roof. This was in the centre of town so I think it may be less common in the poorer areas and the standard in the big houses of the rich. They have limited internet access in Wuchuan, but mobile phones seem to work very well. Gas was deemed expensive, so many families had piles of firewood or coal at the back door for cooking fires.
Just few miles outside the town a tarmark road was a recent addition to creature comforts. At places the country roads were washed away by swollen waterways leaving a ford crossing, not too far away all roads turned to dirt tracks. and I spotted hand pumps at garden wells.
Few blocks away from our hotel was a farmers market with many live birds in cages. I was just slobbering over the selection of vegetables available. Our guide had problems with the smell (what smell?) but we were fascinated by the butchers working to the customers exact requirements. Here you could still buy mopeds with two stroke engines as they are banned for pollution reasons in GZ
Houses In Wuchuan
Geese In Mart.
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