The epigram. China builds 100 airports every year. A hundred airports. A hundred. A hundred pieces. Count from one to a hundred and imagine an airport every time. The Bats! is built. Or, for example, a 28 km long tunnel. The train from Guangzhou to Guangzhou passes 510 bridges and 236 tunnels at a speed of 250 km per hour. In 30 years, the Chinese have increased the residential area of the country by 8 times.

My friend told me a few years ago. I don’t remember any details, but the meaning remains. From the first person.

I went to China to negotiate the supply of meat for a factory in one of the former republics. The negotiations went well, the future partner driving his car unfolds from the restaurant, the rain is freezing.
I sit and laugh. My partner asked me what made me laugh. I tell him, you will hardly understand me. Here are two Chinese men in costumes, without umbrellas, under the rain, waving our hands, saying goodbye. They were also at negotiations, came to them by public transport One - the mayor of this multi-million city, the other - the governor. During the negotiations, the mayor, in order to encourage the Chinese partner, says that if you will supply such a quantity of meat, we will reduce your taxes as much as possible (almost to zero). The governor says: If you produce and supply that amount of meat, we will lease you the land for ten years at a rate of... (nearly zero). Mayor and Governor. By rain, the average of such a fifteen-million city.
My partner never understood.