Communism

We had to go to our consulate appointment at the new US Consulate. The Consulate used to be here by our hotel, but they had to move it to a new building. It is now 40 minutes away in a nondescript office building until they build the new new consulate.

Here we had to leave all cameras outside and could not take any video or pictures except for this one in front of the sign.

Compare that to the day we finalized the adoption at the Chinese government offices and they let us take all the pictures and video we wanted during the whole process.

Here is the pearl market. 6 floors of individually owned pearl shops.

Jade market. Also individually owned.

Medicine market.

Add to it all the souvenir shops around our hotel where each one is trying to get your business by offering free strollers rental, the wedding photography place where 6 poses runs you $3,000 usd and a diffrent small shop selling noodles, bath fixtures, copper pipes, watches, silks, etc. running up and down every street and I think someone missed a class on Communism because this is the most capitalist place I have ever seen.