Author(s): staff reporter ZHANG XUEYING
Pages: 42-49
Year: 2005 Issue:  2
Journal: China Today
Abstract: <正>QIKOU is a small town about 6 hours' bus ride from Tai-yuan, capital of Shanxi Province. From the 17th cen-tury to the 1940s, it was the wealthiest town on the Yellow River. Qikou harbor is halfway along the Yellow River. and oil giant Mobil once had its China branch office there. Former Chinese financial tycoon Kung Hsiang-hsi also had a business in Qikou. It began to