My experience in China

Recently(starting from may 8th to may 12th) I went to China.  I went there because  my parents attended a math conference held at Chinese university of petroleum(what a name huh?). However I was excited to go to the country that every media was praising the potential about. I wanted to see the recent capitalism-turned socialism country.  However in my first visit to China(Beijing) somethings that shocked me was gap and organization and the people.

 First the gap. The gap means the gap between the rich and poor and main cities and other areas. I felt that since China has been focusing their goal at economical development, they could not well-devide the profits made. So there are huge gaps between rich and poor.  There are also large gap between the main parts of the country and the rest of the country. I might be making a haste generalization error since I have only been to Beijing and I’m writting this, but when I went to the downtown parts of Beijing (namely the place where there’s Tiannemen Square) it was so cleans and well organized that I was shocked thinking that China already out-developed Korea. However when I came to the hotel, which wasn’t far off, I was shocked as well. It was nothing like that I have seen at the downtown. There weren’t much of control and it was dirty too. It was a shock, in both good and bad ways. I think that this is inevitable because China has developed too fast and it is certain thing that there had to be gaps. Korea has gone through it and I believe China will pull this off just like us.

 Second the organization. I already mentioned the shock that I received from the Beijing downtown from the passage above so I won’t go deep about this. The thing that I want to mention about organization is the fact that I saw so many police. China has not adapted the capitalism fully yet so there were a lot of police on the streets of Beijing controlling the city.

Third the people. When I went to Japan I felt that Japanese are already civilians of advanced country. Most of the people that I met there had certain amount education and they do answer with kindness when they are asked by strangers but there are boundaries between you and them, you can almost feel it . But when I went to Beijing, I felt as if they were treating me as one of them( they might not have known the fact that I am a foreigner but still). They didn’t seem like best educated but you can feel their warm heart when you talk to them.

It has not been long since China adapted capitalism and earned reputation of being one of the strongest countries, and they have done it so fast that they are suffering from by-product of development. Although I have been shocked from few bad sides of China I cannot rebut the fact that China is one of the most potent countries. I hope China develops positively and help Asia and also Korea develop as well.