Apart from being 10 times the size of Singapore, the city of Wuhan in the state of Hubei also has an elaborate astronomy park, complete with giant sundials, and right now all the public's gathered here with telescopes. It says a lot that a fifth of the women present are with the tv station.
Turns out China's so huge that parts of it are already in total darkness. Over in Chengdu, the government's obligingly turned on the street lights for 'em.
The irony of the Chinese people taking an interest in telescopes and astronomy, the legacy of Mr. 'Fight The Power' Galileo himself, has not been lost on me.
EDIT: Wuhan is getting dark now, and the people are livid. Apparently the eclipse comes with a drop in the temperature and some raised windspeed at the same time... don't people usually take shelter when that happens?
My dad apparently remembers when him and his family were dragged out to the yard and made to bang on the pans and pots to scare away the Sky Dog trying to swallow the sun. 
EDIT2: Zhejiang city is getting a particularly interesting view - instead of total darkness, they're getting a halo instead. I dunno how that works.
EDIT 3: Now Suzhou has gotten the halo type eclipse. Apparenly it's not a China broadcast without pandas - one segment was devoted to the pandas' reactions to the eclipse. Confusion for the most part, some were falling asleep on their own, and at least one was running the fastest I have ever seen a panda run. My kids were squeeing the whole time.
