In fact, most of the workers are purchasing their apartments from ZRCC. Change is happening very fast in China, some think too fast. They estimate that Ningbo and Shanghai will double in size and population every 3-4 years. It's amazing.

And this is also the home of the infamous Dong Hai Hotel and Restaurant of international shame or fame depending on which side of the ledger you find yourself. Some thing it should be the Dung Hai Hotel!

One soon recognizes a fact of rural life in China: there are more bicycles than people.  Definitely more bicycles than any other means of transportation. I would guess that for every automobile there are 100 motorcycles, and for every motorcycle there are 1000 motor scooters. And for every motor scooter there are 80,438 bicycles just in this area of China. And all of the bicycles are old, there are no new-looking bikes. They are made to look old so no one will steal them. Add in all the walking people and the animals and the multitude of potholes the size of volcanoes and you have confusion, mayhem and certain death, maybe.

In fact, there is a local law that prohibits anything but bicycles and motor scooters on the streets from the refinery and chemical plants and town between 5 and 5:15 in the afternoon.  That means that all cars, trucks...  just about anything motorized except the scooters have to shut down, stop and get off the roadway.

There were so many workers being killed by cars that they thought they might actually run out of workers.  I doubt that!!!  But at 4:30 up to 4:59 PM the race course is full of people trying to beat the time deadline for all motorized traffic to stop.

• Rule of the Road 1, the biggest whatever at any intersection goes first, maybe.
• Rule of the Road 2, whoever honks their horn first goes first, maybe.
• Rule of the Road 3, whoever is the bravest goes first, maybe.
• Rule of the Road 4, if you want to be first, don't do it.
• Rule of the Road 5, if you're on a bicycle, they're gonna get you, you're the target, watch out!!!
• Rule of the Road 6, if you're walking, run as fast as you can. You're a target, too. Ups! Too late!
• Rule of the Road 7, if you're in a car, close your eyes tight and hold on; every one else has a "death wish."

The white and yellow lines painted with great care on the surface of the road are there to keep the painters busy.  No one driving in this area observes any rules of the road or any rules pertaining to driving at all.  The bigger the vehicle and the louder the horn determines your chance of survival.  Hell, it's worse than bumper cars at the carnival.

And then there's the taxis, vehicles for hire.  To be a taxi, the vehicle must be old, worn-out and falling apart.  That means you can drive the taxi wilder and without care, if you call it driving.

Aiming is a more useful term. The auto taxis and the bicycles taxis all seem to be determined to run something over.