Fortune writer Marc Gunther is in Shenzhen and blogging:
Half an hour before an interview that I’ve flown 8,000 miles to do, the driver of the Toyota SUV that’s taking me there pulls to the side of a dusty and crowded highway. He’s yelling in Cantonese into his cell phone and madly sketching Chinese characters onto the touch screen of his GPS navigator. The PR woman seated beside me is lost, too. “The GPS isn’t working,” she says. “Too many new roads.”