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June 14, 2007
China - A Country of Contrasts
The world’s largest electrical generating project, nearing completion (the Three Gorges Project on the
10,000,000 high school senior students who must write a marathon university entrance examination (several days), for only 5.5 million university spaces
More construction cranes than we have ever seen in one city, just blocks away from the Forbidden City and Mao’s tomb in
Huge cities –
REAL Chinese food everywhere (who would have guessed) – next door to McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut.
Mandarin, Cantonese and more than 40 other languages of Asian peoples who migrated to
Every guide we had, when asked if it was safe for us to go out at night, said “absolutely”. Because family accommodation is so small, the streets are alive at night as friends and family meet.
Obese is not a word you hear much in
Most of the big cities have highrise apartments like North America but their designs are far more creative than ours, as is their use of bright colour trim and neon lighting for wonderful nighttime effects (plain gray concrete was not much in evidence).
Although nearly as large as
The most modern industrial complexes just a few miles from rice paddies being ploughed by water buffalo.
Posted by Bernice at June 14, 2007 10:40 PM
Comments
Thank you for the information. I think my typical picture of China is more in the rural areas that we used to see but obviously the country is growing and expanding far beyond what many of us thought would ever happen. Actually, I believe the United States is in debt to China but not sure about that. Strange, huh?
Sincerely, Bette
Posted by: Bette Andrew at July 22, 2007 05:26 PM