Thursday, November 17, 2005

Beijing 2008 - Wakeup call for China

I have written a nice post on that subject but somehow it was deleted and I have to re-write it again.
So, I wanted to talk abit about China as a waking giant that is going (already is) to shuffle all the cards of the world's economy. 5 out of 10 most air-polluting cities in the world resides in China (amongst them is Beijing). How will that affect the Olympic games in 2008? How does is affect the Chineese right now? Are the chineese people doomed for low wages, minimal health care and now also for a air-polluted environment? Signs show that not necessary, the republic already aware for the air pollution problems - will that lead to a change, only the time will tell.

China is a big mystery for me. I have been in Beijing at December 2004 and amazed from the size of the city, the progress of western companies in getting inside this culture (most of them entered in the last 5 years), and loved to talk with those that happened to know english (a few, most of them from the hi-tech companies that I met there). The city is huge in size. Old and new are meet at the edges of the large buildings and the city is growing rapidly. 10 Years ago the streets were rolled by bicycle riders. Today, modern cars jams in the heavy traffic and there are signs for big progress in building new roads, improving existing ones and some even tell stories on building a train line.
The main road of Beijing is well suietd for such huge republic, you might even seen it on TV or movies, it is amazingly wide (5 lanes for each side inside a craving city) - well suited for martial marchs for example (you know, heavy tanks, big missiles, big images on giant trucks, etc.)

I'm pissed of that my original post was lost, it had much more details and thinking and just re-thinking about it causes me an headache... (to be continued)

In any case - CHINA - Good luck !

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