Life and Travel in China

I recently read that a Polish disco-polo band is preparing a concert tour in China in 2010! With all due respect to this band and this music, but is this all that Polish culture has to offer in the Middle Kingdom? Melodic chants will probably sell well here, but Poland will not be famous because of it. I would rather see a pop or rock band that is currently on top in Poland. Even Polish hip-hop would be more interesting here than rehashed wedding hits from the 90s. Especially since in China there is no dancing at weddings!

Life in a bucket... sometimes I meet such workers on city buses. Young married couples, simple people from the countryside who move from one construction site to another. All their belongings consist of folded bedding and a rolled-up duvet. They usually don't have any luggage or backpacks - they keep all their small items in a bucket. There is soap, towels, hangers, clothes, sometimes some pots, dishes, cups. They live in big cities, but they don't eat in any restaurants, they don't go to discos, they don't sleep in hotels. They work on construction sites, build luxury hotels, huge hospitals, or stunning shopping malls - none of these places will be intended for themselves. They always sleep in simple barracks on the construction site and send the money to their family in the countryside. They try to keep their jobs, but if there were no construction jobs, they would not be able to survive in such a city and would return to the countryside.

"The Chinese are holding strong!" - I confirm this sentence from Wyspia

The film "Avatar" defeated "Titanic" and became the highest-grossing film in the world. It is worth mentioning that in China this film was also very popular, and cinemas were simply crowded. I have the impression that if we did not include the Middle Kingdom in the popularity ranking of this film, it would probably not beat "Titanic". In China, cinema is experiencing a real revival, in cities and towns, sitting at the cinema or in a caf

The Chinese authorities are excellent at prevention and counteracting terrorist attacks. Luggage is scanned at every bus or train station. Now, during the Chinese New Year, the controls are even more stringent. Even when entering the subway in Shanghai, your luggage is scanned, and any larger packages must be shown to the police. Maybe it's annoying, but it doesn't bother me at all. This is certainly better reasoning than the solutions used in the USA. It was only after the fact that the services became interested in the safety and control of passengers and packages... It is worth mentioning that now there are soldiers at all major railway and bus stations. Privates keep order and help people lost in the crowd. While at the train station in Hangzhou, I was shocked by the number of passengers (still 2 weeks until the Chinese holiday). There were about 30 ticket counters open at the station and each had a queue of 10-15 people. There is a soldier between each turn, and there are also policemen in the station hall. You can feel safer! Of course, someone else may feel the pressure of the communist state, the police state, but it doesn't bother me, not at this time and not in this aspect.