GUANGZHOU: WHERE THE WORLD COMES TO SHOP

Flying into this city's airport from Shanghai, we were amazed by the technological advancements: how finding your flight gate and boarding time is as easy as showing your face in front of a screen that will spell everything out for you.

- RICKY TOLEDO & CHITO VIJANDRE

Jimvi Uy, Sen. Nikki Coseteng and Leslie Climaco of APEC 1 Travel & Tours outside the Bruce Lee ancestral house

And this wasn't even the newly opened Terminal 3, former Senator Nikki Coseteng reminded our group, on the last leg of "The 3rd China Experience," her project made possible with the support of Ambassador Carlos Chan, Larry Villareal and the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. The $55 billion investment that has increased the airport's capacity to 120 million passengers and 3.8 million tons of cargo has a smart virtual model running everything, predicting crowds and fixing problems before they happen-making it one the world's leading aviation hubs and an integral part of the "Air Silk Road."