Zhao Weidong, along with Ji Lingjun and Alice, are considering the arrangement of their schedule during their stay in New York, and he is thinking that he will return to Hong Kong after staying in New York for three to five days, and Hong Kong still has a lot to do. It's now more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and there is still a little time, so I just arranged to go out to see the scenery of New York, and then come back after dinner outside in the evening, he asked Alice to arrange dinner to eat in Chinatown, and let the company arrange the car, and we went to see the Statue of Liberty.

Alice agreed and went out to arrange, and after a while, a group of three, plus a driver, and a few other security guards drove a car to follow, the first stop they went to see the Statue of Liberty, Zhao Weidong and their party soon came to Liberty Island, where the Statue of Liberty is located near the mouth of the Hudson River.

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States in 1876 for the 100th anniversary of independence, and the famous French sculptor Bartholdi spent 10 years painstakingly completing the sculpture of the statue.

Dressed in ancient Greek costumes, the Lady of Liberty wears a radiant crown with seven pointed rays symbolizing the seven continents and oceans of the world.

The goddess holds a 12-metre-long torch in her right hand and an engraved Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 in her left hand, with broken handcuffs, shackles and chains at her feet.

She symbolizes freedom, breaking free from constraints. On the pedestal of the granite statue is engraved a famous poem by the American poetess Emma Nasa Rochi. The wrought iron interior of the statue was designed by Gustave Eiffel, who later built the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

It was inaugurated and unveiled on October 28, 1886, and the Statue of Liberty is 46 meters high, 93 meters plus pedestal, weighs more than 200 tons, is cast in metal and rests on a concrete pedestal.

The Statue of Liberty pedestal was built by the famous Joseph Pulitzer with $100,000 and is now home to a museum of American immigration history. The whole bronze statue is made of 120 tons of steel as the skeleton and 80 tons of copper sheets as the skin, and is assembled and fixed on the bracket with 300,000 rivets, with a total weight of 225 tons.

Zhao Weidong and the others got on the ferry to Liberty Island and entered the statue area. Take the elevator to the lookout at the top of the cushion seat, which is an ideal place to observe, because the view of the Hudson River is very open, and the view is quite far away, but the tall buildings around the river are towering, and the view behind is blocked.

Zhao Weidong They continued to climb 12 floors (a total of 168 steps), to the top of the statue the vision is a little wider, but the change is not very big, the most regrettable is that the torch at an altitude of 305 feet (about 92.964 meters) is not open to the audience, everyone can not go to the highest point to see the appearance of New York, experience "will be the top of the mountain, a glance at the mountains." Spirit.

After leaving the Statue of Liberty, we drove directly to Chinatown, Zhao Wei saw that there was a revolutionary bookstore on the street, he was very surprised, how could there be a revolutionary bookstore in the United States, what kind of books were sold, he immediately asked the driver to find a place to park.

After the car was parked, they went to the bookstore together to see what books were sold, the store's façade is very small, if there is no flag with red letters on a yellow background, many people will miss this small bookstore, the store flag is written in English, Chinese, French and other six languages, very eye-catching hanging in the air, the bookstore's Chinese name uses traditional Chinese characters, as soon as they enter this bookstore, what catches their eyes is Mao's quotations, anthologies, bronze statues, image seals, and sympathies printed with ** images, etc., which should all be imported from the Chinese Foreign Language Publishing House.

Readers here also come from all walks of life, different races, and of course, many of them are Chinese tourists, and Zhao Weidong really didn't expect to see such a bookstore in the United States.

I heard that there are revolutionary bookstores in 17 cities in the United States, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Berkeley in California, and in Washington, the capital of the United States, Seattle, Washington in the northwest, and Boston, where Harvard University is located.

Zhao Weidong and his entourage then drove to a street in the southern part of Manhattan in New York City, stretching from Broadway Road to the East River, which is no more than a mile long and only 11 meters wide, which is the transliteration of the English "Wall Street".

The street is no more than a third of a mile long, and the street is narrow and short, with only seven blocks from Broadway to the East River. However, the world's largest banking buildings, in addition to Chase, the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Stock Exchange, the National Memorial and the Federal Hall, which houses the historic sites of Washington's inauguration as the first president of the United States in 1789, are all located on this street.

In 1792, the Dutch colonists built an earthen wall from the East River to the Hudson River to defend against the British invasion, and formed a street along the wall, hence the name.

The walls were later demolished, but the name "Wall Street" was retained.

However, it is known as the "financial center of the United States".

The managers of the banking, insurance, shipping, railroad and other companies opened by the Morgan chaebol, the Rockefeller oil tycoon, and the DuPont consortium in the United States are concentrated here, and it looks like a very ordinary street, but the corporate consortiums on both sides of the street are too powerful, and I don't know when they can compete with these giants, they don't get out of the car, they just pass through it.

After passing through Wall Street, because Chinatown was already close at hand, Zhao Weidong motioned for the driver to take a turn on Broadway, which is the name of a very famous street in Manhattan, New York, and the middle of which has always been a commercial theater entertainment center in the United States.

As a result, the word Broadway has become synonymous with American theatrical activity, and there is no street in the world that is as fantastical as Broadway, which is now synonymous with modern American cabaret and entertainment.

Every year, millions of visitors from all over the world come to New York to enjoy the Broadway show, which literally translates to "Broad Street" in English.

The avenue existed long before New York City was urbanized in 1811, and its heart is near Times Square on 42nd Street, and it is surrounded by dozens of theaters, and there is nothing particularly important to see here, just take a look and walk through it.

After leaving the Broadway neighborhood, they headed for Chinatown, and after a short car ride, they entered Manhattan's Chinatown in the lower part of Manhattan at the southern end of New York City, which is centered on Mott Street, including Kenny Street, Pendulum Street, Disclosure Street, Lafayette Street, Bowery Street, and East Broadway Avenue.

Just a stone's throw from the city hall, a stone's throw from Wall Street, the world's most famous international financial center, and close to Broadway, the world's center for the performing arts, it is a prominent location in New York.

New York's Chinatown is predominantly populated by Chinese, and Chinese business activities are also concentrated here. Living in Chinatown is just like in other small Chinese towns like Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The common language is mainly Chinese, but there are also local dialects.

Chinese food is the staple food, and there are Chinese newsstands on many street corners.

You can hear Chinese radio when driving, and the TV you watch at night is Chinese TV.

In the United States, only Chinatown has such conditions and atmosphere. It is characterized by the fact that the inhabitants of this area are almost exclusively Chinese.

At the same time, the Chinese also engaged in commercial activities here, mainly opening shops, restaurants and gift shops. The residents are mainly from Guangdong and Hong Kong, and the main language is Cantonese.

A third of the shop is a restaurant, and the streets are lined with piles of fruit, herbs and seafood stalls, and aunts selling department stores and beautiful Chinese signs are mixed together.

To the south of the area is the "Confucius Square" of Confucius, the leader of the Chinese spirit.

After entering Chinatown, Zhao Weidong carefully observed the living environment of the Chinese, and after arriving here, he immediately found that the environment outside the district was very different, and the whole living conditions of the Chinese here were like after China's reform and opening up, after the individual economy prospered, stalls were set up everywhere, the phenomenon of dirty mess was serious, and the sewage flowed sideways.

The Chinese crafts that have appeared in China can be found here, some of them are shouting all over the street, some of them are playing erhu on the street corner, some of them are writing in stalls, some of them are repairing shoes in stalls, and then look at their clothes.

Zhao Weidong really doubted that this is the living conditions of expatriates in the most economically developed countries in the world, of course, for the current domestic people's lives, the living standards here must be higher than those in China, but for thirty years later, the living standards of the Chinese people have undergone earth-shaking changes, and Zhao Weidong knows that the Chinese life in Chinatown at that time has not changed much from the present.

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Chinatown is a gathering place for Chinese in New York, 99 percent of Chinese people come to the United States from here, 90 percent of people may not be able to leave here for the rest of their lives, it is full of blacks, Mexicans, this is a typical New York slum, many people have gloomy expressions, and the law and order here is also poor. Even if you are legally qualified and graduated from a prestigious university with super good English, it is difficult for you to integrate into the mainstream society in the United States, let alone people who have no identity, no English and no skills.

The driver went to the Shuangfu seafood restaurant where she ordered under the command of Alice, which is a great Cantonese seafood restaurant, and it is also a feature here, Zhao Weidong and several people from a lot of fish tanks throughout the restaurant, you can see a lot of live seafood, and they will soon become people's plate food, if you want to eat the best food here, you must order fresh seafood.

Alice booked two private rooms in Shuangfu Seafood Restaurant, the three of them had a private room, and the other drivers and security guards had a private room together, Zhao Weidong and the two of them ate pure Guangzhou cuisine in a foreign country, Zhao Weidong and Di Lingjun ate very comfortably, but I don't know how Alice is, see how she eats, see that she can also eat, and indeed Cantonese dishes are still suitable for many foreign diners, like Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan cuisine is not a lot of people can get used to, this meal is still very comfortable.