Such is liquidity in this market that a cash-strapped hotel in the centralcityof Wuhan reportedly decided to use the coupons as part-payment for a decorating job.
Jiangjin prospered when it was absorbed into the centralpartof Chongqing in 2006 as partofa government initiative to integrate outlying areas into the core city through transportation infrastructure.
It's a pocket of bohemia, and indeed Bohemia: many of the wheatfields that engulf the city were planted by 19thcentury Czech immigrants, partofa million-strong central European influx whose cultural legacy across southern Texas has survived.