It's 34 million actually, in the Chongqing region. I know this from the sumptuous Chongqing Urban Planning Exhibition and Gallery, which has a model of the city which would make any model maker swoon. It's got lights and everything, and a soundtrack of angelic singing. The highlight, though, is an interactive Chat with the Chief, where the director of the exhibition and gallery pre-recordedly tests you on your urban planning knowledge of Chongqing, and, by clever means of a video camera, you are – or, Simon was – inserted next to him on the screen. Clever. Thank you, Chief.
Estimated temperature today: 38-40 celsius. Attempted description of this heat after spending 20 minutes walking down to the river in it, past deflated balloons and air rifles and people swimming in brown silty water: A boiling cauldron of swampy soup.
Now to Chilean wine tasting at the Hilton.