I've never seen trucks piled so high with stuff. The truck itself is cramped with stuff and they are still piling things on the roof. Urumqi has a lot of little factories that makes sundry goods and stationery, things that are used all over the world. While most things from China are loaded into shipping containers at ports throughout the country and shipped overseas to the West. There is considerable trade overland to the land lock countries of Central Asia. At the hotel that we stayed in which is on the other side of this activity we saw a lot of men from Pakistan and Central Asia. They are in town to buy stuff to send home for sale. There is a highway that leads from Khasgar in the extreme West of Xinjiang province to Islamabad in Pakistan.
I had a kick watching the old man climbing up the back of the lorry to hand these brooms over to the guy on top of the lorry. 'Don't worry, there's plenty of room on top, the sky's the limit."
There were rows and rows of lorries being loaded this way. There probably isn't much regulation as to the tonnage a lorry can safely handle. In China the rush for growth and profit is so expedient, it is so amazing to just watch. The Chinese work so very hard and is a source of inspiration for me. Lately I've had to work really long hours because of the economic slowdown, we have reduced our staffing and each person has to do a lot more work. I'm not complaining. I'm glad to still have a job.
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