Deng Xiaoping | 1971 Graduates of Confucian Tai Shing Secondary School

The weather was fine on the 13^th of April, 2013 but it was cloudy in the morning. However there was sunshine in the afternoon. It was a bit warm and was perfect for outing. Siu sir invited us for a Shenzhen tour a couple of months ago. There were a dozen of classmates together with some of their spouses joining the tour. We were glad that Simon Fan from Melbourne and Peggy Wong from Toronto made special trips thousands of miles away to join our tour. It is amazing that our cohesive power is so strong that our classmates were attracted to have a beautiful day together.

We gathered at 9:30 a.m. at Futian Checkpoint at Shenzhen with Siu sir waiting for us. Siu sir was our tour guide and David Yeung was our tour leader. We settled down in a Chinese restaurant and had our dim sum morning tea there. The food was in good quality and relatively cheaper than Hong Kong.

After morning tea, we took the MTR to Lotus Hill. The weather was a bit cloudy. We took a leisure walk to the peak of the hill. Some classmates felt tired in walking up the hill. They might need some more exercises! We took photos in front of the statue of Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平). The economic development of China started in Shenzhen under the directions of Deng. Shenzhen was a village 30 years ago. Now it is the fourth largest city in China with a population of 15 million and GDP of around RMB 1 trillion. It is really unbelievable for such a huge development to have been made in a short period of just 30 years.

The scenery in Lotus Hill was really attractive and there were a lot of people enjoying themselves. Some people flew kites and a few people sang songs and played music for fun or for money. We found a place at the foot of the hill where single people put up notices there hoping to find their suitable life partners. We arrived at a fishing pond and saw a man catch a big fish weighting a few kilos.

We had afternoon tea in a cafe in a shopping centre. Some of us were rather tired and therefore they took a break to recover their strength. A few of us went shopping and bought CD’s, books, etc. Siu sir and David went to pick up Lee Shin at the MTR station. Shin finished his work in the morning and rushed to join us.

After finishing our afternoon tea, we took the MTR to another shopping mall, Central Walk Shopping Mall. We went shopping at a supermarket. We looked around for some bargains and quality stuff to buy. Simon had to leave us early because of his prior arrangement.

It was dinner time – 6:30 p.m. Siu sir led us to a decent good Chinese restaurant near the shopping centre. We ordered some good and delicious food such as Peking duck. We enjoyed the food. We talked about how to find our missing classmates and discussed another tour in December just after the School’s 50^th Anniversary Dinner on 7^th of December, 2013. We are expecting that there will be some overseas classmates coming to attend the anniversary dinner and it will be a good time to organize a tour for them.