{"id":943,"date":"2007-09-05T20:44:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/welcome-to-the-largest-city-in-the-world-you%c2%b4ve-never-heard-about.html"},"modified":"2007-09-10T18:22:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T16:22:02","slug":"welcome-to-the-largest-city-in-the-world-you%c2%b4ve-never-heard-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the largest city in the world you\u00b4ve never heard about"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first time in my life that I visit a huge city whose name I did not know. I am in Dalian now. 7 million people. Until WEF<\/a> invited me to their meeting here (yes I made up with them and accepted their invitation) I did not know Dalian existed. Now if you like me, have had trouble learning all the new countries that arose after the atomization of the Soviet Union and you like me, care about geography, then you\u00b4d better start learning your Chinese cities. Dalian is a good start (don\u00b4t ask me I still don\u00b4t know the others…). In any case getting here was a haul only made more endurable by the company of Tariq Krim founder of Netvibes<\/a> who flew with me. We flew via Hong Kong so I could have a meeting with YK Lin who runs Fon in Taiwan and it was there that YK and I took a break to compare WiFi gadgets. Here\u00b4s the result.<\/p>\n