China in the News
By Ed. Filed in Business, Computers & Internet, Life, TV |
Today I needed to learn about two of China’s major cities, Shanghai and Beijing. Because I am a visual person, I wanted to see a map first, and here is what I found. Shanghai is on the right, in blue, and Beijing is at the top, in green.
If you already know anything about China Travel you might already know a lot about these two cities. I have to admit that the little bit I thought I knew about Shanghai was limited to what I’ve seen on TV shows and in movies.
My impressions of Beijing are from all of the news coverage of the Olympics in 2008. Because of the worldwide attention on Beijing hosting the Olympics, we were able to watch China videos and read a lot of news stories with photographs of many landmarks.
As much as I love China travel videos, I like to learn more about a city and how the average person lives. What is the typical housing? What is the commute time for the average worker? Where do they shop?
I discovered a web site called chinaontv.com and spent a couple of hours this afternoon watching travel videos and learning about our neighbors in the Far East.