Free Trade Between China And Vietnam In Border Town.
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Chinese Border Free Of Passport And Customs Controls For Vietnamese People
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The Chinese border town of Xuikou is just across a river from Vietnam, and it is regularly used by the local Chinese and Vietnamese people as a trading point. An old Vietnamese lady hobbled down the track in Vietnam to the river and called for the Chinese ferryman who hauled himself across by means of ropes slung between the banks. At this point, there were no border controls, no passport checks nor customs duties to pay. An attempt to cross into Vietnam from Pingxiang in 1993, even with a Vietnamese Visa issued in London, proved futile.
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Washing Clothes in Border River Between China and Vietnam.
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Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. A surprising number of countryside towns and villages in China do not have water on tap, so full use is made of nearby rivers or springs, and the lucky ones have their own wells. As far as this Chinese woman was concerned, it might have been more convenient to use the Vietnamese Chinese border river to do her laundry.
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Vietnamese Women In Market of China Town of Xuikou.
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There was quite a number of Vietnamese people in the Chinese market at Xuikou, men, women, children and even Vietnamese soldiers, the soldiers wearing their distinctive helmets. The coolie hats of the Vietnamese are of a different style to those made in China. Many of the Vietnamese people selling their produce in the Xuikou market were women, but it was difficult to say whether these women were having a gossip or arguing.
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| The start of these personal webpages and the Vietnam pictures, followed a chance meeting with a young man named Hoang in 1979. Hoang was one of the "Boat People" from Vietnam who arrived in the UK. In due course I was given the responsibility of teaching him some English. A few weeks later I met his family and friends, and subsequently their families and friends, and friends and families, of friends and families.... and so it was that the ideas for the personal webpages began. |
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| Browse through the many China pics on the personal webpages and enjoy again a meal of Peking Duck with pancakes at the Qian Men Restaurant in Beijing. See what happens to the floor of a Ming Dynasty Hall after Buddhist Monks have stamped their feet for hundreds of years, as shown in the China pics from the Shaolin temple on the personal webpages of Robert. |
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