Our last hotel was in the city of Hangzhou; it's another super-city that you've never heard of (21,000,000 people). Where we were it wasn't as densely populated as where we were in Chongqing. The part of town we were in used to be more industrialized and is now being converted into a normal high-rise metropolis.
The hotel gift shop was full of carved stone: jade, onyx, and marble. The piece below is about four feet wide and has a price tag of 5,800,000 Yuan. At six yaun per dollar, that comes out to just under a million dollars!! It was more like walking thru a museum than a gift shop. Even the small fist-sized pieces were out of my price range.
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