Pictures of China

[chinautumn]

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[Water Car Engineer]

Indian and Chinese culture on this statue..

 

[Water Car Engineer]

 

[xuxu1457]

Chengdu Research base of Gaint Panda Breeding
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New born(in 2012) panda Appearance Conference

 

[yusheng]

Sichuan: Jiuzhaigou (四川九寨&#27807China’s most impressive lake view.

This massive lake is the crown jewel of Jiuzhaigou, a region full of stunning alpine lakes and waterfalls.

The lake is filled with incredible water that changes color throughout the day and year. The color comes from the reflection of the surrounding landscape, as well as algae and calcified rocks at the bottom of the shallow lake.

Autumn is the best time to visit, when the lake surface appears as a multi-hued painter's palette.

 

[yusheng]

My hometown, hehe

Ningbo city

ningbo-zhoushan harbor, the sixth of the world harbor by contains number

ningbo countryside:

ningbo a shoping center at deep night:

 

[Fanling Monk]

A little nostalgic mood lately.

This is Victoria Island (Hong Kong) Central in the early 1900

The same area today

Victoria Peak 太平山 (old 扯旗&#23665 in early 60s

Victoria Peak today

A view from the Peak with Kowloon on the back ground

 

[xuxu1457]

This is typical rural village of China on the north of Changjiang River
一次上两三张图，太多了看的时候时间太长才能刷新出来图，不能的话可以申请小号轮流发，两三张一次

 

[Fanling Monk]

Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry in early 1900s with Victoria Island in the back ground. It was found as Kowloon Ferry in 1888

Star Ferry today

Aerial view of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon 九龍尖沙嘴 coast line in the early 70s

Today

The Star House area in the same vicinity, early 60s

The Star House area today

 

[Fanling Monk]

I was born and raised in one of these walled villages in Fanling, New Territory Hong Kong and still stay in the same house with my grandparents whenever I'm in town.

A map of Fanling. Incidentally it's combined with Sheung Shui, Sha tau Kok and Ta kwu Ling to form, as it's called now North District

An old market and tenement town called 聯和墟 with numerous villages and farmlands nearby

I had dropped all my piggy bank savings on this little store when I was a toddler

 

[Fanling Monk]

A view of Fanling from dragon Hill 龍山, my favorite preteen climb

Now all highrise tenements built around the market town

There's a rail link and the Fanling Highway to Kowloon or to interior China (Shenzhen, Dongguan and Guangzhou)

 

[terranMarine]

Nice photos monk, have stayed in one of the walled villages at my grandparents too when i visited them.

 

[xuxu1457]

Shenzhen, on city with 10million people and 182.5billon$ GDP, you can see it in
http://www.defence.pk/forums/general-images-multimedia/75340-rapid-development-chinese-cities-3.html

But in 1980, these pics from an 27 years old American Leroy W· Demery· Jr, show another Shenzhen in 1980
Shenzhen 1980 (

I traveled China for three months in 1983, and managed to visit, or "pass through," every province except Tibet, Hainan (part of Guangdong Province back then), Fujian and Taiwan (which I visited in 1980)

However, I made my "first visit" to China on 1980 July 17. I joined a half-day "cross-border" tour operated by China International Travel Service (CITS), Hong Kong. Booking was easy and the price was very reasonable.

Bao'an County, which had a settlement history dating back nearly 1,700 years, was renamed Shenzhen City in January 1979. At this time, the total population was stated at 300,000. The population of the urbanized area was stated at 20,000 - that's "twenty thousand" - and the urbanized land area was stated at 3 km2. Establishment of the Special Economic Zone was approved in August 1980 - that is, roughly one month after these photos were taken. I saw virtually no sign of the amazing changes that were soon to begin.

Travel guidebooks published during the early 1980s state that China began admitting unescorted foreigners in 1981. However, our Hong Kong-based CITS guide said that there was a "new arrangement:" one could obtain a visa to visit Beijing and Shanghai in three days. You simply applied for the visa, she said, "and on the third day, you go." So I might have visited (at least) Beijing and Shanghai in 1980, three years before I actually did.

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North of Lo Wu Bridge, Shenzhen

In Shenzhen, just north of the Lo Wu Bridge. Shadows suggest that I was facing south.

"The first thing I noted: China drives on the right!"

 

[xuxu14577]

I must post 15 before posting links

 

[xuxu1457]

1980
Looking northwest ...

... but I am not certain from where. I believe that I took this photo from the window of the tour minibus, en route from Shenzhen station to Shenzhen Reservoir.

Shenzhen Reservoir, west side

My notes conflict with the slide sequence numbers. The notes state that we rode in the minibus from Shenzhen station to Shenzhen Reservoir upon arrival.

"Our guide was a Hong Kong girl who worked for China Travel. A man from Peking was also along on the bus. We drove through the dusty town of Shenzhen to the Shenzhen Reservoir, which supplies water to Hong Kong."

I believe this image was taken from the west side of the reservoir, near the south end, looking north.