Shao Xing @ China

Its the airport again, this time I am in Pudong Shanghai International Airport. Going to Shaoxing China. This is my first time visiting China. There are lots of cities & provinces in this place and I am going to experience ShaoXing, located in the ZheJiang Province, as same as Shanghai & Hangzhou. ShaoXing is one of the developed cities in the province.

Now I know that China is indeed a HUGE country after visiting this country.
From Pudong Shanghai International Airport to ShaoXing, we have to take a 4 hours drive to reach there. Then another 40 minutes drive from our hotel to ShaoXing city area. Then we were told that the distance from Shanghai's bus station to the airport needs a 2 hours drive. Besides that, ShangHai got 2 airports!!! My goodness, this place is like a never ending distance of walking...

Alright, back to the main topic, Shaoxing. The reason of being here is I participated the World Choir Games (As mentioned earlier). After the Austria trip 2 years back, this time the organizer chosen Shaoxing, The Venice of the East. As a Chinese, its not a difficult thing to visit this Chinese ruled country. As usual, the choir games organizer will assigned volunteers to welcome & assist tourists like us. Through this opportunity, I knew our 2 friendly leaders, Mr Lim & Ma Fei (Xiao Ma). From the moment on the way to Shanghai, until I left the place, the experience this country gave me was the need of service quality improvement!! (Of course there are good ones as well but most of them really need to learn what is customer service). But our leaders really did a good job on helping us. They are friendly, helpful & very warm.

The cultureshock for them is, they never expect that we speak mandarin as same as them and we can communicate with them easily. We are foreigners to them and they thought we speak other languages. That's why they were so happy when they knew this. As Xiao Ma's faculty is English, he was prepared to be the translator throughout the trip. Therefore, he is even happier. Haha!

Because of the big event holding in the city, in conjunction, ShaoXing also celebrates the 2500th anniversary of the city. The city added lots of decorations and made a major development which deliver the tourists a beautiful and well organised city. Not only the beautiful scenery but also lots of buntings, banners and posters of the World Choir games. Policemen were everywhere to conduct the traffic and also strict checking wherever you go. This really impressed me...
What to do? Terrorism is getting scarier and for 100% safety, it is essential to be more alert.

Chatted a lot with Xiao Ma. I got a better picture of China. It is true that the over populated issue creates the high pressure of living condition in China. In terms of education, career and lots more. The one child policy still exists. Furthermore, the rapid growth and development of China, really worth a big clap from everybody else.

The similarities of Malaysia & China will be the agricultural industry. Next to all the highways are crops planted by the citizens. In Malaysia, we have plantations like Oil palm, Rubber or paddy fields. In China, varieties of plants & crops are planted together in a big land.
Other than that, the roads in China are really wide and big! Just like what I saw in U.S.
Green activities in China is slowly developing. Recycle bins & No plastic bags rule were seen almost everywhere. As a green warrior, I need to praise them.

Malaysia! Please improve!

China consist lots of ancient beautiful history. This requires to discover, understand, feel and enjoy it slowly. Let me get to know you better in the future. Let's discover this lovely place!