The only other major railroad in Kwangtung (completed in the 1950s) links the far western port of Chan-chiang and the shale-oil-producing city of Mao-ming to Kwangsi Province.

‘I really don’t know how the poor people are going to cope,’ quothed Oriel to her employer in response to his query about what she would be doing over Christmas.

No! penury, inertness and grimace, / In some strange sort, were the land's portion. […]

but there is never found a foolish man who knows the measure of his stomach