My photo on trip to Zhuhai and Macau

"Welcome to Zhuhai",
read one out of many signboards along the road side
to Zhuhai.
Here are some photos taken during my recent trip to
Zhuhai and Macau. We took ferry ride from Hong Kong
then buses and also by car.

The photo below with a very unique and "rare "car below is taken
from one of my friend's office. It is a very expensive car.

Zhuhai is one of beautiful city situated at Southern China.
Below is a bit of summary from "visitZhuhai" website:-

Zhuhai is situated in the southwest of the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province. It faces Hong Kong on the east across the Lingding Ocean, Macau on the south, Xinhui and Taishan on the west, and Zhongshan on the north. It is 150 kilometers away from Guangzhou. Zhuhai has jurisdiction over Xiangzhou District and Doumen County. Its total land area reaches 1,300 square kilometers.

Zhuhai is a garden-like seaside tourist city, where flowers blossom all year round. In 1999, it was granted “International Award for Best Practices in Improving the Living Environment” by United Nations Center for Human Settlement and was the only winner of the award in China. Besides, it won series of titles such as “Top Tourist City of China”, “State Garden Green City”, “State Environmental Protection Model City” and “State Hygienic City”.
From Zhuhai, we travelled to Macau by road along the seaside.
Very nice panaromic view. We stop few places and also having
our lunch at one of Seafood restaurant facing Souh China Sea.
Such a wonderful view to compare with "hazy" view in some part of
Modern China Cities.
Below is the photo taken with some of my Chinese friends.

Here is the excert about Macau from China travel Guide.

The land of Macau when compared with other Chinese metropolises unlike Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou is quite small covering an area of just 27.5 square kilometers. The total population Macau is 469,800 of which 95% are Chinese, the remainder being Portuguese and other westerners. 

Macau Flag

The majority resides on the Macau Peninsular where you can find a variety of both Oriental and Western cultural and historical places of interest and all sorts of old buildings that are either European baroque or traditional Chinese in style. The blend of people, culture and history has influences on every aspect of life in the city. A wander around the Macau Peninsular will bring you into a world of antiques and fashion, traditional and modern, as well as tranquility and glitz.

Most travelers who have been to Macau conclude that it is a location suited to both tourism and living as it is a beautiful city with clean streets, gardens and picturesque hilly landscapes. Sunshine, clear air, green lands and all sorts of delicious food all contribute to its many attractions.

My advise to those of you that plan to come here, do not plan a short trip.
You will miss a lot of nice spots. One week is good enough.
Have a nice journey.

Factory Visit in Foshan

Foshan is growing to become and has been one of an Industrial City
in the middle of Southern China. Most of the population here are
working in various industrial factory such as sanitary products, gourment,
toys, electronics, households and buidings material.

I have visited one of the factory related to printed circuit boad (PCB).
The PCB is normally related to every electrical products which use
PCB assemblies as a based to control or process the function of each
product. To a layman, the PCB is invisible as it is built inside and covered
by outer casing. But to the people who are familiar with electronic and
engineering knowhow, the PCB assemblies is considered a brain to any
design and function of each product and gadget.
On this PCBA, you will be able to see how complicated it has been
done and wired internally or externally via PCB to each components
or processors that control it's product and functions.

This is the factory that produce Bare Printed Circuit Board.
Here you are able to see how they process the raw material
by each step until the final process of finish good that called
Bare Board.  Single layer, double layer or multiple layer board.
Silver plating, gold plating, Imersion Gold and etc.
Yes, it is just only the bare board without any electrical component
put on it. There are other companies that will use this board
to put electonics component onto it depending on kind of
products they are going to make. TV, handphone, toys, robot,
Ipod, computers, car, plane, aircraft, shinkansen, or games.
Every single product need to have a PCB.

Once you have visited this factory, you will be able to
imagine the meaning of each step and process done.
It is a kind of very high tech and advance processes
and required a basic electronic and technical knowledge
for you to understand on what they are doing.

You will also be able appreciate the skill and advance
level of each worker in handling various type of machines
and equipment available today in China.
No wonder people say that everything on earth is able
to be built in China.

It is such as an eye opener and I am wonder what will ever
be a new high tech gadget will come out of it in the next
10 or 20 years to come.
Have you see the movie title "Iron Man".? Yes we alone
can fly to outer space.

Till next time.......
see you soon.