Twelve miles of white sandy beaches bordering the beautiful Atlantic Ocean. I love it and always will. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina ocean life is beyond normal living quality and, with the quantity of things to do, makes the perfect place to both visit and live. One can’t possibly understand the beauty that lies in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

This island is about food…and lots of it! Restaurants range from Japanese Steak Houses all the way to Coffee huts. In over two hundred and fifty establishments, you will never go hungry. Hilton Head nights out on such a tiny area has a urban feel combined with rural warmth. My personal favorite is Lodge, but any of the local clubs will please. Visitors always feel at home in the clubs. And if your night out doesn’t involve partying, a nice walk on the dunes guided by the white of the moon and the breaking waters of the water can be just as invigorating. With an obsurd amount to do and an obsurd amount to see during a stay, you will just have to come back again and again. Roughly 2.7 million visitors to the island the beach season can’t all be wrong. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina is one great island to see while being an even better island to reside.

South Carolina, one of the original 13 colonies, has a population of about 4.3 million. A visit to South Carolina by a Chinese trade delegation may seem unusual but this is a necessary development. They signed a MOU- Memorandum of Understanding, with the state government. Harsco Track Technology, a West Columbia Co. and the Chinese Ministry of Railways signed an agreement, and the Governor applauded this announcement. This is for a $350 million contract over 4 years, and Harsco’s largest railway track maintenance and equipment sales contract in the division’s history! Governor Sanford has visited China twice and opened South Carolina’s first office there under the Department of Commerce. South Carolina exports to China rose 12-percent to $870 million. Chine also purchased machinery, cotton yarn and fabric, plastics, chemical and aluminum.

The City of Charleston is on the coast of South Carolina, with 120,000 people, or 600,000 in its metropolitan area. The city has developed into a major container port. There is a Bosch plant here- the German manufacturer of automotive parts and brakes. Nucor is a steel producer with a plant in Darlington, South Carolina. They use “mini-mills” which are electric arc furnaces, to melt scrap steel, not blast furnaces. They recycle 10 million tons of scrap steel in the United States. Nucor produced carbon steel in bars and various other shapes, in Darlington and other sites in Berkeley County. The Charleston also has NASCAR motor car racing, at the Darlington Raceway.