Workers at Qinshan nuclear power station in Zhejiang province, one of China’s first

When Hou Guanghui first visited Yintan – or Silver beach – as a 12-year-old, he was so enthralled that he wrote an essay for school, entitled “The First Time I Saw the Sea”. So when the former Communist party official retired two years ago, he put down a deposit on a flat near Silver beach.