One of the biggest demonstrations occurred in the south-western city of Chengdu, where thousands of people marched through a business district and forced the closure of a Japanese department store.
We also have an appetite for going west, and looking at that hundred million people in the Chengdu-Xian-Chongqing triangle, who will eventually want their own business school and will not necessarily want or be able to fly to Beijing or Shanghai.
Many injured residents were sent to the nearby provincial capital of Chengdu, which sustained damage in a stronger 2008 earthquake that killed more than 80, 000 people and revealed the depth of the region's substandard building quality and emergency response efforts.