Xian

I was in Xian decades ago. The tourist guide told us that KFC wanted to pay MORE local taxes if they prevented MacDonald's (or may be Donald) to set up stores there.

Xian is the major big city and the destination for the Silk Road. It is the largest walled city I've ever seen. It is also the tourist city for the first emperor of China. I suspect many changes in the last 15 years and more in the next 5 years. They still have a huge underground palace (i.e. tomb) more than 2,000 years to be unearthed. Hope they unearth it before my time.