What is unbelievable to most people is that over 98% of the manufacturing of fireworks is still done by hand. This page contains photos of our visits to the factories.
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| Pat Egan with Zhuo Yang Guang the president of the Yangchun I/E Corporation. (#4566-4a) | Sharon Gardas (our friend from Wisconson), Betsy Egan and Liu Jing Yu, the vice president of the I/E Corp. at the factory gate. (#4566-8a) |
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| Making celebration strings at the factory. (#4566-10a) | This woman is pounding the fuse into each cracker on this roll, one by one, by hand. (#4566-11a) |
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| Packing the celebration string into the carton. This carton contain one string with over 1,000,000 crackers on the string! (#4566-16a) | Pat Egan, Chuck Gardas and Mr. Zhuo with a 300,000 cracker roll. (#4566-17a) |
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| When we arrived at the factory, they lit a celebration string to welcome us. (#4566-3a) | This is the mess that was left afterwards. (#4566-24a) |
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| We were hosted at dinner by the Yangchun I/E Corporation. The Vice-Mayor of Yangchun, Wu Zhao Chang, joined us for dinner. (#4568-0a) | The Vice-Mayor also attended the fireworks shoot after dinner. (#4568-6a) |
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| The showroom at the Yangchun I/E Factory showing all the fireworks they sell. (#4568-20a) | A label from the celebration strings. Notice the bottom noting it is made by Yangchun Native Produce. (#yclabel) |
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| The following day, we visited the Golden Dragon Factory. These woman are making the large 6" class B display shells. (#4569-12a) | The shells are air-dryed outside when the weather is good. In the rainy season they are dryed in heated huts. (#4569-14a) |
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This is Mo Shan. We first met this beautiful little girl last year when we visited this factory while adopting our daughter. At that time she was 6 mos. old. She had been left at the gate of the factory as a newborn. This factory is co-owned by a man from Australia and he has been trying to adopt her since she was found. When we arrived at the factory, we asked about her. They told us she had not yet been adopted. The women got her all dressed up before they brought her out to see us. After our visit, we contacted the Australian and let him know if he was unable to complete the adoption, we would like to try to add Mo Shan to our family. Although she has been in his family's hearts for over a year; they have determined it will be impossible for them to adopt her due to the laws of their country. So, we are hastily preparing a dossier, hoping to bring Mo Shan home quickly. This is obviously a very unusual situation, and there is no guarantee it will work out, but we are hoping for the best! (#4569-16a) Postscript 10/99 - We just arrived home with our new daughter - MoShan! Now known as Samantha. |
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| Pat Egan with his newest friends watching the fireworks. (#4567-6a) | We had quite a crowd of children before the shoot was over. (#4567-15a) |
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| These girls were having a fun time watching the festivities. (#4567-14a) | I think we were as entertaining as the fireworks. (#4567-20a) |
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