Arriving in China after a long flight, I spend a Sunday mooching around Hangzhou with Hikvision's Daniel Huang and Michael Bates. The idea is to get a sense of the city and of Chinese culture before visiting Hikvision's head office and factory - to get a feel for what lies behind the company's story. Through the windscreen of the car as we drive Isee deep layers of modern industrial and commercial development but there's much more going on here. Hangzhou is connected to green space, pegged by river crossings, in love with the mythology of its verdurous earth. It's at once in touch with a deep history stretching back before the Roman conquest of Britain in 43CE and a more recent history of wood-fired stoves and bicycle transport at the beginning of the 20th century.
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