Liaoning offers day-trippers delightful choices

When I was traveling in Liaoning's provincial capital of Shenyang, the idea of visiting a museum that occupied an entire factory intrigued me.

The admission-free exhibition area occupies what was once a machinery plant in which 12 Japanese firms operated in 1933. It changed names many times after the city was liberated until 1956, when it became known as Shenyang Cast Factory (SCF).

At the time, the 330,000-sq-m plant in which 5,800 employees worked was Asia's biggest foundry.