This would be particularly important with a product prepared in a way which was unfamiliar to the Chinese. Another problem with Tianjin was that the city was not generally frequented by Western tourists. While Wang anticipated that most sales would be from soft currency renminbi (RMB), some hard foreign currency sales would be essential for profit repatriation and/or the purchase of critical supplies such as chicken coating, packaging, promotion materials, and so on. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Tianjin would be unable to provide KFC with the. profile necessary to facilitate eventual national market penetration. In fact, Tianjin was generally regarded in China as a gateway to its larger sister, Beijing, only 85 miles
to the west.