Designed by Goettsch Partners, this triangular skyscraper has managed to win the design competition held for the new Soochow Securities Headquarters. A credible accolade of the design were the ingenious features that reduce the buildings overall energy requirements. The triangular skyscraper is a 21-storey building that renders 344,400 sq ft of office space and 86,100 sq ft for the stock exchange, meeting rooms, classroom, cafeteria and enough space in the dock to park 400 cars and 800 bikes.

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Chinese stars are trying to score points with the public and save God’s critters, too. Or maybe she is thinking about dinner. (Bad joke). Chinese Actress, Sun Li wrote a book with the title “Take Me Home” which shared stories of stray animals. Yeah, I hear some fellows thinking out loud they wish Sun Li would take them home. It’s not that kind of stray!!

The book will be released in Beijing in conjunction with the opening of a photo exhibition.

So…does Sun Li really care about the animals or is this a publicity thing? GP doesn’t know. But, we do know that it’s not above stars and starlets to make such moves for a good PR image. Let’s hope she does really care. And, not just about dinner.

I don’t know what interested me more, the fact that China has some areas that aren’t polluted or that a top rate Chinese news site doesn’t know how to spell: ” Yellow River presents beautifal autumn scenery “

Doesn’t matter in the long, I suppose … but we can marvel at the beauty that China has to offer. It’s not just about economic development, or destroying the planet’s resources, or even human rights issues. China has some beauty to boast of as well. I mean, how can you go wrong with a name like “Yellow Riiver?” the mother river, China’s second longest.

But then, autumn is pretty everywhere, no? Why not in China, too?

Ask a Chinese person and they will tell you China had it first. China has the oldest. China has the most. It was invented first in the Middle Kingdom. It is everything. So, why not ‘living fossils’ too? There are at least two living fossils in China. The Chinese sturgeon and Chinese alligator.

China sent five pre-historic Chinese sturgeons to Hong Kong’s Ocean Park. The never-t0-be sashimi dish is called “living fossil of fish” or “Giant Panda in the water.” Hong Kong’s visitors are home to the only human-bred Chinese sturgeons living in sea water. Why five? To coincide with the Beijing Olympics. What pre-historic fish have to do with the modern Olympics is beyond me. The sturgeon species supposedly dates back to the Cretaceous period when dinosaurs still roamed the land. It seems to me that most fish were here from the beginning. Even the Flood of Noah’s time couldn’t snuff them out.

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fishermen (alligatorermen?) have found a wild Chinese alligator that is also being referred to as a living fossil. The alligator was guessed to be about 40-years old. (Why didn’t they just ask?). It was the first sighting of an alligator in the district of Wuhu in more than 30 years. This alligator species was supposedly very plentiful some 230 million years ago (if you believe the Earth is that old), but now there are only about 150 in the wild. The Yangtze alligator as it is also known is one of the world’s most endangered creatures. Gosh, what would Marco Polo say if he saw this fellow?  Since 1979, the Chinese Alligator Breeding Research Center in Anhui has seen the number of alligators at the center rise from about 200 to more than 10,000.

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