by Jesse Veverka
It?s 9 a.m. as my bus pulls into the station and I am greeted by what sounds like a bedsheet being ripped apart a millimeter from my ear.
Startled, I jerk upright to see a group of Hunan locals setting off a giant roll of firecrackers right by the coach for no obvious reason. Or maybe it?s just because they can.
I?ve just arrived in Liuyang, Hunan Province, the world?s capital of fireworks.
This Chinese city is the single biggest producer of fireworks on the planet, providing around 60 percent of China?s annual US$600 million of pyrotechnic exports.
Made in China, sold across the planet. A roll of standard firecrackers.
Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/CJ4QeS7P4OY/liuyang-where-worlds-fireworks-are-born-862322
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