Datong

Matching the crowd sizes of election nights, the aerial photos were spectacular.

Shen put forward five major policies for Zhongshan and Datong, including a service team to extend life in old houses, companionship for the elderly, and the Yuanshan Citizen Sports Center.

China has launched a new six-day military exercise in five maritime areas in waters near Taiwan, right on the first day after Taiwan's National Day long weekend.

The affected areas include parts of the Yellow Sea, the Bohai Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea.

Analysts framed the episode around what Han called Taiwan’s biggest problem: the erosion of trust between the executive branch and the opposition-held legislature.

Next in political news, DPP Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen launched his Taipei Ocean Current campaign on Saturday, leading a car sweep through the Zhongshan and Datong districts that drew crowds large enough to back up traffic.

As the race against incumbent KMT Mayor Chiang Wan-an enters its final stretch, lawmaker Wang Shi-chien presented Shen with a hammer he said would be used to attack City Hall and sweep away injustice.

Former premier Hsueh Chang-ting rallied supporters in Taiwanese, citing a poll showing the party trailing in Datong.

Shen’s livestreamed convoy drew about sixty-five thousand online viewers as his team pressed to close the gap in the traditionally pro-KMT district.

Now in crime news, a fifty-five-year-old man was detained after allegedly beating a fellow drinker to death at a snack shop in Taichung’s Fangyuan District, one of several violent incidents to mar the National Day holiday.

There are other rural areas to go through.

But why this particular route that we took? Because, you know, we went to Sichuan, we went to Chengdu, and then we drove up to Datong.

I mean, you know, what was so specific specific about this route that you thought was going to be the best way to showcase the denser models?

I think, I mean, that's one of the key learning points that I have for this trip as well.