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00:00:29 The American Institute of Chemists' tour

00:00:33 took us through Beijing at Hubei Province, Xi’an in Shaanxi Province,

00:00:41 Shanghai in the Shanghai Municipality,

00:00:45 and we concluded at Canton in Hong Kong.

00:00:50 We arrived in China, stopping in Shanghai briefly on our way to Guangzhou of Beijing.

00:00:57 Arriving at the Great Wall Hotel.

00:01:00 Very beautiful structure.

00:01:03 This is the lobby of the Great Wall Hotel.

00:01:07 Very beautiful.

00:01:08 This is our first view of the Great Wall.

00:01:11 After getting settled, the next day we toured the Great Wall.

00:01:17 These are some shots taken of the Great Wall by the Beijing Studios

00:01:22 in parts that are not accessible to the tourist.

00:01:25 This is a portion of the Great Wall in the Nantou Mountains in the Beijing area.

00:01:32 This is reconstructed for tourists.

00:01:34 This is the park.

00:01:35 Here we are on tour.

00:01:37 The Chinese are enjoying the Great Wall just as much as we are.

00:01:44 It was raining the day we toured the Great Wall.

00:01:48 Consequently, our climb was difficult.

00:01:52 Chinese soldiers on a holiday and friends graciously posed for our camera.

00:01:58 Some of the areas of the Great Wall are very steep and not accessible to the tourist.

00:02:04 You see one here in the mountains.

00:02:07 Some of the Great Wall lie in ruins as it traverses 5,000 kilometers across North China.

00:02:13 The Great Wall reaches to the East Sea of China, the Northeast China Sea you see here.

00:02:20 Here we see the typical street scene of Beijing.

00:02:25 Tens of thousands of bicycles.

00:02:28 Bicycles are the main mode of transportation in Beijing.

00:02:34 Here we see street lanes designated bicycle and bus and construction cranes in the background.

00:02:41 We saw many construction cranes in Beijing.

00:02:44 Apartment buildings being constructed for the workers.

00:02:49 Horse-drawn traffic side by side with modern buses in Beijing.

00:02:58 And in the shadow of the Great Wall Motel, the bus passes the horse-drawn traffic.

00:03:05 All manner of objects, here we see lumber, are carried on the horse-drawn vehicles.

00:03:12 Here we see the Beijing Science Hall.

00:03:16 And now our group is getting ready to meet our host, CAST, China.

00:03:22 I lectured at the Research Institute for Petroleum Processing,

00:03:28 presenting a paper that I had authored with Blackburn and Pettiford.

00:03:34 Entrance to the lecture hall.

00:03:37 Our group, our host, and on the extreme left, my interpreter, Madam Chu.

00:03:45 The Madam Chu on the right and Dr. Tseng on the left.

00:03:52 My host for my visit.

00:03:54 Interpreter was Madam Chu, and she was assigned to my lecture exclusively that day

00:04:03 because it was the featured lecture at RIT.

00:04:07 After our lecture sessions, we took a tour of the Research Institute for Petroleum Processing laboratories.

00:04:15 Here we see a typical laboratory.

00:04:17 The laboratories at Research Institute for Petroleum Processing are very modern and well-equipped, as illustrated here.

00:04:25 The pilot plant area is among the most modern in China.

00:04:31 Here we see the control sections and the humidity control climate room for process control.

00:04:37 The cup of tea, always with a little cap, is ever-present, just as coffee in America.

00:04:43 We break for lunch at the lovely little restaurant at Taihai Park and Lake.

00:04:50 My colleague, who also lectured at RIPP, Dr. Magnusson, is being served his lunch towel here.

00:04:59 Phyllis took the shots of the famous Tiananmen Square, the largest assembly square in the world

00:05:07 and the birthplace of the People's Republic of China.

00:05:19 The famous West Gate at Tiananmen Square.

00:05:27 The famous People's Statue with Mount Titung Auditorium in the background.

00:05:32 While I was at RIPP, Phyllis toured the Evergreen Commune for elderly people without family.

00:05:40 Here we see the elderly people without family.

00:05:47 The director of the Evergreen Commune.

00:05:51 Phyllis toured the nursery school of the commune.

00:06:04 And the little beds where the nursery school children sleep.

00:06:08 The commune is a community.

00:06:12 The communes of China comprise like a county area and have dozens of factories and workers.

00:06:19 Here is the sewing factory.

00:06:25 Many of us thought it might be nice to buy maybe factory overruns, but they didn't understand.

00:06:32 They evidently never had factory overruns and they're sewing these dresses on contract.

00:06:39 We will now tour the famous Ming Dynasty Imperial Palace of the Forbidden City.

00:06:47 The Forbidden City is a city within a city in Beijing.

00:06:51 The Ming Dynasty lasted clear through the 14th century.

00:06:58 Hundreds and hundreds of square acres is the area of this imperial city, which is now of course only for tourism.

00:07:05 But it's kept up.

00:07:06 This is the exhibition hall, the stage hall, and everything was new and freshly painted.

00:07:12 We were told that the beautiful buildings here were focusing in on a long range shot of the building, exquisitely carved.

00:07:20 Both of the buildings in the imperial palace were in a state of beauty and careful repair, just as they appeared, just as they did.

00:07:39 We toured the Temple of Heaven.

00:07:41 The Temple of Heaven, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, some think, was not in the imperial palace, but which occupied a different site in Beijing.

00:07:51 What we see here is the inside of the previous building, which is the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest.

00:07:59 Now we see the famous Ming Dynasty Emperor, home of the Ming Tomb.

00:08:05 The Ming Dynasty lasted from 140...

00:08:09 This is the great hallway in the entrance to the Ming Tombs, which are seven stories below ground.

00:08:18 The Ming Dynasty lasted from 1409 A.D. to 1644 A.D., and these are some of the artifacts down below the ground in the tombs.

00:08:29 We are in the Ming Tombs now.

00:08:31 This is the back hall, polished granite, very beautiful.

00:08:35 After touring the Ming Tombs, we rented a car and driver, and with an interpreter as well, we saw the railroad station, of great interest to me.

00:08:45 Here is our very friendly guide, Mr. Fu.

00:08:51 The Chinese were very gracious about allowing us to go out into the railroad yard with our cameras.

00:08:57 Typical Chinese express train.

00:08:59 And here is our group, the American Institute of Chemistry's Farewell Banquet to Beijing.

00:09:06 We flew to Xi'an in Shaanxi Province.

00:09:10 This is our hotel, the Renmin, or People's Hotel.

00:09:13 In Xi'an, we toured a jade factory, and notice that the sign for the factory is in English.

00:09:20 Jade carving.

00:09:22 We didn't buy any, however, because we didn't see any we liked.

00:09:25 A street of Xi'an.

00:09:27 Xi'an is a central plain Chinese city of two million.

00:09:33 All manner of boxes and packages are carried by carts and bicycles.

00:09:40 Many strange conveyances are seen on the streets of Xi'an.

00:09:45 The Li River.

00:09:47 The Li River enters the Yellow River about a hundred miles west of east of this location in Xi'an.

00:09:54 That was the Li Li River.

00:09:56 The Li Li River.

00:09:58 Here is a Xi'an power plant, all coal-fired.

00:10:01 Many of the power plants, all of the power plants are coal-fired.

00:10:04 In fact, as we'll see later, many of the locomotives are coal-fired in China.

00:10:09 Here we are at the famous Li Li River.

00:10:12 Many of the locomotives are coal-fired in China.

00:10:15 Here we are at the famous Terracotta Warriors.

00:10:18 The famous Terracotta Warriors.

00:10:20 This is building number one pit.

00:10:22 14,260 square meters.

00:10:26 Clay warriors.

00:10:27 These are the famous clay warriors that were entombed with the emperor in the Qin Dynasty.

00:10:34 3,000 of these warriors have been reconstructed since 1976.

00:10:38 Thousands and thousands more are expected to be exhumed and reconstructed.

00:10:42 Here is a close-up of one of the warriors.

00:10:44 And I might point out that they are indeed the eighth wonder of the world.

00:10:47 Every warrior is an individual.

00:10:49 Every warrior is different.

00:10:50 It's absolutely a fantastic thing to see.

00:10:53 The warriors have a beauty and lifelikeness that defies the age.

00:10:57 Entombed with the Qin Terracotta Warriors were horses and chariots.

00:11:02 And here we see horses and the chariot.

00:11:05 And there's some controversy about them because of their diminutive size compared to the warriors.

00:11:13 This is the famous steam locomotive of Xi'an.

00:11:16 I went down to the railroad depot with the attorney of the group, Frank Scheck.

00:11:21 We made video tapes.

00:11:25 Leaving Xi'an, we saw in the morning the calisthenics of the Chinese.

00:11:30 The calisthenics of the Chinese people in the street areas.

00:11:36 The transportation in China by air is rather elderly.

00:11:41 This venerable 20-year veteran, however, got us safely to Shanghai this day.

00:11:47 In Shanghai, we had the honor.

00:11:49 Our group had the honor.

00:11:52 Seventy-eight of us, 50 delegates, and 28 spouses and friends stayed at the western suburban...

00:11:58 Actually, it was not a hotel. It's called Suburban Guesthouse.

00:12:02 And it's only for very important people.

00:12:04 And we were the first delegate group to have stayed there.

00:12:07 You're looking at the grounds in a beautiful...

00:12:10 The next day, we toured the streets of Shanghai.

00:12:14 And here is a back street or a side street of Shanghai.

00:12:18 All of the streets are packed with pedestrians and bicycles.

00:12:21 In Shanghai, a metropolis in the municipality of 10 million,

00:12:27 there were thousands and thousands of street vendors, unlike Beijing.

00:12:31 By the way, in the last slide, they were vending beer on the streets.

00:12:35 Looking up the street, we saw a typical area of workers' housing.

00:12:40 These are the backsides of the housing.

00:12:43 In Shanghai, the waterways, the famous waterways of Shanghai are picturesque.

00:12:58 Still at the back waterways of Shanghai and some of the beautiful buildings.

00:13:03 I think I'd like to have a painting.

00:13:05 In Shanghai, we resumed the scientific exchange.

00:13:09 And I lectured at the Huaqiu Petrochemical Complex, which we're entering here.

00:13:16 My co-lecturer at Huaqiu, Mr. Brooks, and I were welcomed by this...

00:13:24 Mr. Brooks and I were welcomed by this cursive writing in English.

00:13:29 We were very touched.

00:13:31 This is the group of officials of Huaqiu Petrochemical Complex

00:13:35 and my interpreter and Mr. Brooks' interpreter, who I shared this time,

00:13:39 on the extreme left.

00:13:41 The Chinese are very, very anxious to control their population

00:13:55 because they are at the exponential knee of the curve, as it were.

00:14:00 Consequently, one sees signs all over China in factories, subways, and so forth

00:14:06 admonishing one child per couple.

00:14:08 And this is one such sign.

00:14:10 You see the lower right, the one child, and the sign says just that,

00:14:15 according to my friend Andy Chang.

00:14:20 The promenade at the waterfront in Shanghai was very nice.

00:14:24 It was an overcast day, so our pictures were not really great here in this part,

00:14:29 but it still showed.

00:14:30 And, of course, the waterfront.

00:14:31 And the interesting thing in the waterfront is the unusual conveyances,

00:14:35 like in the foreground.

00:14:38 Our only panda, because we didn't go to the zoo,

00:14:42 was this one here at the acrobatic show.

00:14:49 The next day after the scientific exchange in Shanghai,

00:14:52 we toured a commune.

00:14:54 And here I am consulting with one of our several guides on the left there.

00:15:01 Life in the commune.

00:15:07 Dumpsters of the commune.

00:15:10 Everyone seemed quite cheerful and happy in the commune.

00:15:14 The communes always are complete with factories, living quarters, hospitals,

00:15:19 and this commune in Shanghai had an excellent hospital,

00:15:23 and this is the dentist's office.

00:15:25 Here we see pharmaceuticals and medications for the thousand residents or so

00:15:31 of the commune.

00:15:32 Birth in the commune.

00:15:34 A baby, a few hours old, and the mother was just delighted to pose for our camera.

00:15:40 The back of the factory of the commune.

00:15:43 This is the chemical factory of the commune.

00:15:48 Glutamic acids are prepared by fermentation process.

00:15:52 Sodium glutamate is then prepared, and these are the chemicals

00:15:56 that are used to make the chemical.

00:15:58 Fermentation process.

00:16:00 Sodium glutamate is then prepared, and these products are sold by the...

00:16:04 Here are the electrical controls from the reactors, number six through one.

00:16:08 You saw reactor one in the previous slide.

00:16:10 Unlike the modern facilities at Beijing and the research institute,

00:16:16 the packaging in some of the factories for the communes was rather primitive.

00:16:21 Previous slide, you saw sodium glutamate being packaged by hand methods

00:16:25 with apparently not very adequate dust ventilation

00:16:30 at the famous Shanghai rock garden

00:16:33 and the very beautiful carvings around the roof of the building.

00:16:39 This statue was at the Jade Temple in Shanghai.

00:16:47 This was a monk at the Jade Temple in Shanghai.

00:16:51 We received permission to take his picture.

00:16:56 We went to a school, and the children put on a performance for us.

00:16:59 The little girls were quite charming.

00:17:02 Here they're doing a bird dance.

00:17:04 The little girl in brown on the right had a lovely time.

00:17:07 She really put everything into it.

00:17:10 Here we are in Guangzhou.

00:17:12 We flew to Guangzhou.

00:17:14 This is the New China Hotel.

00:17:18 This is the lobby of the New China Hotel in Guangzhou.

00:17:21 By the way, Guangzhou, of course, is Canton.

00:17:24 No one formally is Canton,

00:17:26 but we're using the Chinese pronunciation,

00:17:28 Guangzhou, or Canton, and so forth.

00:17:32 This is the swimming pool on the top deck of the New China Hotel.

00:17:36 Quite Western in appearance.

00:17:38 From our hotel room, we got a nice overview of the city of Guangzhou.

00:17:43 The Chinese in Canton, that is, in Guangzhou,

00:17:46 have the very finest food in the world, we think.

00:17:50 Here is a typical Chinese restaurant in Guangzhou.

00:17:53 We left Guangzhou by train,

00:17:55 much to my great delight,

00:17:57 because we hadn't traveled by train and through China.

00:18:00 It was all by air.

00:18:01 Now by train, we got a wonderful opportunity to see the South China Field.

00:18:06 These are the scenes that so many of us have in our minds, I think, of China.

00:18:10 These are the scenes we saw as our express train,

00:18:13 express number 93, which was delightful, by the way.

00:18:16 These are the scenes we saw as we went through South China Field.

00:18:21 Our train is taking us for our final tour,

00:18:24 and the final tour will be in Hong Kong.

00:18:27 We see the rich and fertile fields of China rolling by

00:18:30 as our train traverses the area.

00:18:36 Rice fields of China, we see the irrigation system.

00:18:39 This was an especially interesting sight to see the track laborers on the railroad.

00:18:45 Rather different in appearance.

00:18:46 It's a tropical area in South China, and it's quite a...

00:18:50 We crossed the border into Hong Kong,

00:18:53 and this is what you see from the waterfront side by boat, actually, at this point.

00:19:00 We went to the back streets of downtown Hong Kong,

00:19:03 where a million shops buy one against the other

00:19:06 for the trade of the thousands and thousands of tourists.

00:19:11 We were delighted to find some old electric trolley cars,

00:19:15 double-decker, no less.

00:19:17 And we saw the backside of apparently a cooking operation outdoors in Hong Kong

00:19:23 to feed a little restaurant area.

00:19:27 The highlights of our exciting visit to Hong Kong

00:19:31 was the sand ponds, the water taxis.

00:19:34 We're on a water taxi looking at the home of the boat people.

00:19:38 The boat people get their groceries on the water.

00:19:42 This is a floating grocery store delivering to the boat people

00:19:47 and the thousands of craftsmen.

00:19:49 On Victoria Island, which is the island of Hong Kong,

00:19:52 we took a tramway to the mountaintop and got this beautiful overview.

00:19:57 We took a trip to the casino at Macau, which is the Portuguese area,

00:20:01 and here we are in the hydrofoil boats speeding over the surface of the water.

00:20:06 Interesting Chinese junk in the background.

00:20:11 This is a view of the city of Macau, a Portuguese-Chinese settlement.

00:20:18 This is a Christian temple which was bombed, and we're looking at the ruins.

00:20:23 The bombing occurred in World War II.

00:20:27 Complete our record with a view of this beautiful marble Buddha

00:20:32 at the temple at Macau.

00:20:34 The end.