30 November—TV Tower
My friend Guo Jinghua had an extra pair of tickets for the TV tower in Beijing, an attraction that I had never visited. I used them on the last afternoon of my stay, and was accompanied by Luan Yurong, currently a student in the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science and formerly in my class at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in summer 2006. Although it was a beautiful day, we were struck by the amount of haze that we saw from the top. That made these pictures depressing. Nevertheless, here they are.