As noted on other occasions, the traffic into Florida Splendid China is normally light, but despite the thousands of people visiting DisneyWorld just two miles away, it appears to at least one observer that people visiting Splendid China has dramatically decreased, even with the recent cash infusion from Beijing. Many people that turned into Splendid China came back out much sooner than the suggested six hours required to view the exhibits, one observer mentioned the presence of the timeshare sales and the "Orlando welcome center" as possible reasons for their visit.

Those gathered discussed the recent birthday of the Panchen Lama, Gendun Choekyi Nyima, the world's youngest political prisoner at twelve years old. Rebiya Kadeer, the Uyghur grandmother from Eastern Turkestan in prison for sending newspapers to her husband in the US, and Mr. Hadaa, who opened a bookstore in his native Inner Mongolia and wrote an unapproved account of Inner Mongolian history, were also talked about.

One offending note of the day was the carcass of a dead opossum at the main gate of Florida Splendid China. The presence of dead animals is not an unknown phenomena in front of Florida Splendid China, as the pictures of the Turkey Buzzards from last year's commemoration of the 53rd anniversary of the Communist Chinese takeover of Inner Mongolia indicate.