The Real Beijing

Just a simple video showing the city of Beijing as it prepares for the Olympics. The media has been focussing on pollution making Beijing sound like a dirty cesspool of a city but actually it is not. It has pollution like any major city but it is a beautiful city with many blue sky days and lots to offer.

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• Beijing
• China
• Olympics
• pollution
• environment
• sports
• athletes
• Tibet
• ethics
• IOC
• bird's
• nest
• watercube
• stadium
• security

[WebwebDweller]

Ridiculous. I was in Shanghai and Beijing this summer for two weeks in total, and not a single day did I see a blue sky. Smog, smog, smog, and a tour guide recommended we go to the olumpics site at night when smog is less noticeable. At one point in Chinese history a rebel leader could persuade people that the blue sky was being replaced by a yellow one. PRC leaders may still believe in such absurd propaganda power ... So sad. Water does not taste well either in China.

[xiaobai88888]

What can I say? These are the pics I took when I was there! It's plain to see that there can be plenty of blue sky. Of course that doesn't mean that Beijing has smoggy days too though.

My point is that Beijing is just another city that of course will have pollution due to having over 14 million people, but if NYC or Toronto had 14 million within it's city limits then the pollution would surely be much worse than Beijing.

Beijing and Shanghai are also very humid, hard to see the sky through H2o

[bnocbsbuy]

this must have been one day out of the year

[xiaobai88888]

Unbelievable, give your head a shake if you're actually serious.

[kaly13]

Really? What about the poor people? Have you gone to see where they live?

[xiaobai88888]

Yes I have. These people won't stab you in the neck for a pack of cigarettes.

[aceatbass13]

Well done. 真好看

[BarrelofMonkeys99]

@baguazhang2 no one can go to China and NOT drink tea. I always drink the tea there, also the beer, the wine, the juice, the coke and more beer. I never had a problem. That being said I did get a bit sick when I ate some goubuli boazi in Tianjin. I probably didn't drink enough beer that day to kill any bacteria from the kitchen.

[baguazhang2]

@Jianghua2

Chinese people under age 30 don't know anything about the Tiananmen Square protests, so they won't understand your post.

By the way, I was in China for 6 weeks, and saw blue sky for MAYBE 2 days. Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Kunmning...etc etc just smog. People were very nice though, lots to see and do, and the food was fantastic. Don't drink the tea though...I came back with parasites.

[WebwebDweller]

You did not and do not have to say anything before checking the statistics. Beijing population density is about 1000 per square km. Manhattan population density is about 10,000, for 8 million people and 20km by 4km island. I see blue sky in Manhattan everyday if it is not cloudy. For about a week in Beijing I did not see any this summer, even the morning after it thunder showered. Do not forget New York is humid too. Water vapor, fyi, is transparent. Be objective.

[Jianghua2]

That was the tian an men massacre, idiot!

[BarrelofMonkeys99]

that was very nice of them.

[BarrelofMonkeys99]

I didn't know the CCP was that powerful that they could turn the sky blue whenever they want.

That's a pretty cool trick, go find me a video that explains how they turned the sky blue.

[Jianghua2]

You are wrong I have seeen Beijing before, the PLA army showed us a Free tian an men tour.

[Jianghua2]

That's why the sky is blue not grey ROFL