{"id":10489,"date":"2014-10-10T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=10489"},"modified":"2017-08-12T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:17:07","slug":"10-things-i-love-about-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/10-things-i-love-about-china\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things I Love About China"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, here’s the follow up to my “10 Things I Hate About China<\/a>” post with some things that I love about this country.<\/p>\n

1. Its Natural Beauty<\/h2>\n
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“Is this real life?” in Yangshuo, Guangxi.<\/p><\/div>\n

When most people think of China, the first thing that comes to mind are mega-cities with congested roads, massive crowds of people, factories churning out cheap goods, and a thick gray sky full of smog floating overhead. If the only images of China you get are from Western media, it makes sense that this is your perception. After living and traveling here for a few years, though, that’s not what springs up in my mind when I think of the Middle Kingdom. Rather, I see the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, the bewildering karst mountains of Guangxi, the sheer beauty of Jiuzhaigou national park in Sichuan, and the rolling rice fields of southern Yunnan. Even around Beijing and Shanghai, you don’t have to go far to be near a towering mountain or a majestic river. Get out of the concrete jungle and explore some of China’s natural beauty, because it’s all over the place.<\/p>\n