China-big leap into the future

China has the largest rise in a decade. Facing the future, but revered and their traditions, but that does not prevent the pull down old buildings, says Nigel Richardson. "Ahhh!" exclaimed a small group of people around me. We zapremizhahme dragged their necks and not believing his eyes. "UUaaaauuu people can fly! Most people are familiar with the neon overdose of Shanghai, whether they were there or just have seen pictures of Nanjing Road and nebustargacha Pudong.

Now the scale and speed of this development dublitsirat throughout strana.V center of every city, old buildings are deleted to make room for new, it happens in the suburbs.Whole neighborhoods are springing up where previously less than ten years the peasants worked the field by hand. With impeccably maintained boulevards in black limousines with tinted windows ride already favored former party cadresand now novoizpecheni rich and entrepreneurs.

If you walk around in small towns of China mozheda be amazed of the new brass hotels with monumental marble cladding, interior fountains and plasma TVs in the toilets, as inLas Vegas. This is as exciting as it is strange to the present, because who knows if in the same place, babies were thrown into the water in those tanks? "

Now is the best time for China, "said one chap with a pretty good English, who came to us and offered to walk to the top of city wall in Xian, the ancient imperial capital and home of the terracotta soldiers. "First we visited Old China, as it was 4000 years ago run by various dinastii.Posle went in the new China - during the  Maoistand now we moderniya Kitay.Kato tourists constantly smiling and nodding your head in sign of agreement.

Modern China - Capitalism with Chinese spice - so be likened themselves Chinese. The pace of construction of concrete buildings sheathed in glass if they want to delete mention of the Cultural Revolution of the sixties and seventies, which, at the request of Mao Tse-Tung, the people were brutally violated and battered. "Older people were beaten for being possessed banned books. Many buildings were destroyed, and the flowers from the gardens uprooted. Tensions between old and new is palpable. Rural poverty is a great example-it's Shaanxi Province  "least developed". On the other hand, the pace of change is huge.

In the sixties we used the coupons, "says local resident." It was difficult even to buy a cottage bob.Edna striking difference from the time of my last visit before 12 yearsis the development of local tourism. In 1998, world-renowned  Shanghai Museum was quiet and almost no visitors. In 2010, he echoed the tumult of thousands of visitors and clicks of their digital cameras. Clear what the visit China has a lot to see and feel.