Quote of the day- Bulls**t

Friday evening was hosted by James Su Hao who helped us with plans for Hohhot and kindly offered to speak to us and buy us dinner. He spoke to us at our induction in Washington, and has grown his company from relative poorness to current multi- skilled group organisation.
East Rock amongst other things makes Hunter wellies, cow and horse mats and  currently builds dairy farm infrastructure for the growing dairy industry, based around large scale American operations.
He is a very interesting bloke who has travelled an interesting road from a poor rural family to a protesting student (he was thrown out of university for his involvement in the Tiananmen Square protests) to a highly conservative businessman steeped in capitalism.
He told us about how the melamine scandal came about in china when poor farmers added melamine to their milk to boost their income, given that these guys have two cows and an income of about £240 per year its not surprising, however this literally killed lots of children and seeped confidence in the dairy industry away.
Chinese people are to some degree conditioned and are very trusting of what they are told by their government. When I asked James about the images of grass fed cows used in the dairy advertising he said “This is bullshit!!” it appears that the government has backed this approach and the general public are now satisfied that  milk is now safe; however I am not convinced that they are.
Milk will be increasingly produced in large scale feed lots and the dairy companies are looking to be rid of the poorer small farmers because they are extremely inefficient and cannot be trusted to produce quality milk.
James treated us to some of the best chinese food I have ever tasted- what a difference to lunch, and also a taste of the new breed of chinese business men

We then visited the great Wall of China and all those touristy things around Beijing. incredible we went up to the wall by cable car; but even more amazingly came down by a louge slide!!