Fushan Bay: Water That Was a Shipyard
A 45-hectare Olympic sailing venue raised on the yard of a state shipyard, where eleven events were sailed in the summer of 2008 and where a 534-metre breakwater is still called Lover's Dam.
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Qingdao
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The Pier That Opened the Harbour
Qingdao's first wharf is 440 metres of timber jetty with a pavilion at its end, and the octagonal image of that pavilion is the trademark drawn on a beer bottle.
The Lager That Went Out to Sea
An Anglo-German company opened a brewery in a leased Chinese port in 1903; the lager it brewed for the Germans of that coast is now sold in 62 countries and accounts for half of China's beer exports.
Eight Passes and One Tree on Each Street
The name of Badaguan promises German years, but most of its villas are from the 1930s. What the district really keeps is a plan: eight passes for street names, one species of tree on each road, and a building limit of fifty per cent.