I WAS in a glitzy auto showroom in Luqiao, one of the main city zones of Taizhou, admiring an Audi open-top, a sports car similar to that Princess Diana used to drive to her gym in London before her death, except that this baby was the latest model.
Showing me around the showroom in the Fanglin Auto City, a local one-stop car mart, was a young man in his mid-30s who claimed to be a farmer, more likely a farmer-turned-salesman.
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