Mei Li Hua in Dezhou

Our first full day in Dezhou was a busy one. We had breakfast in the same room in which we had dinner the evening before. I think it is a room for special banquets. Did I mention that the table seated 10 people comfortably? It had a huge, motorized turntable in the middle, and was equipped with artificial flowers and fountains. It was a bit distracting.

After breakfast, we met in the lobby and boarded the minibus. First on the agenda was a tour of the city, both old and new sections. The tour included brief visits to three city parks. One of the parks was built along a branch of the Yellow River, and featured a large checkers board in which each of the checkers contained a historical fact about Dezhou.

We spent the next part of the morning in the Dezhou Economic Development Zone. Our first stop was a high tech incubator. The incubator director took us on a tour of the facility and introduced us to a couple of tenants. One was developing a new kind of toilet that uses a fraction of the water used in current toilets. The other was developing a kind of water purifier that used vibrations to break large water molecules into smaller ones. Their marketing pitch said that the water helped get clothes cleaner and was more easily absorbed by the human body. As we expected, there was innovation on demonstration at the incubator. Next, we visited three businesses in the Zone - a solar energy company, a filter press manufacturer, and an air conditioning manufacturer. The visits rounded out a full morning. On the way to lunch at the cafe in the Dayandao Biology Park, our hosts pointed out an impressive structure, the site of an international conference on solar energy scheduled for 2010.

After all the evidence of technological advancement, when I returned to my room to get ready for dinner later that day, I noticed the following on the back of the door to my suite -

Security Scattering Sretch Map

Dear customer: When the suddenness or fire alarm happen, please keep your head and live up to the two ways

1. Please dial 85110 or 85119 immediately;

2. Please according to the green direction channels what in the evacuate map to the safety exit, or following the waiter to give away the locale.
Meilihua Hotel