Random Walk Down Beijing

Random Walk Down Beijing Beijing is really a huge city. A random walk is not like that easy, but I will try to describe what the huge changes I saw in recent years. The first time I came to Beijing was back in 1995. At that time Beijing was crowded, but... More

Random Walk Down Beijing Beijing is really a huge city. A random walk is not like that easy, but I will try to describe what the huge changes I saw in recent years. The first time I came to Beijing was back in 1995. At that time Beijing was crowded, but not in the same way like it is now. In the 1990s, people in Beijing liked to ride bicycles everyday to work, I still remembered one day I was wandering around my hotel in Beijing, which was located near the center of the city, I was puzzled by the ringing bells behind me. The sound came from the bicycles people rode, when they tried to get past, they chose to ring the bell on the bicycle and give a alarming sound to the pedestrians. Gradually I was surrounded by the bicycles, it was 6 o clock in the evening, people after work were eager to go home and have dinner. I may get passed by over 1000 bicycles that day, and when I get back to my hotel, the ringing sound still existed in my mind. What I saw in 2009 was a totally differen Less