Laibin is a town in Guangxi province that I have driven through many times. One day on our way back to Nanning the road had been closed and the traffic was backed up. There were police there making sure that no vehicles passed through.
It turned out that it was a motorcade of central government officials on their way from Nanning to Laibin. Several vans, buses, SUVs, and police cars finally passed by and we were on our way again. I thought it was really strange to close so many roads for a government official. I know we do the same in the US for the president, but I'm pretty sure that Hu Jin Tao was not in this particular motorcade. Whoever this official was, they may have been in Nanning to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (technically not a province).
(The high-rise apartment buildings being built in the background are typical of any city or town in China. There are probably hundreds of cranes in Nanning alone, towering over buildings wearing their scaffolding and mesh clothing.)
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