Life in China - Everyday Sights

Life in China
Everyday Sights

If you're expecting pictures of mountains and beautiful scenery, go get a travel brochure. These are some of the more common sites I see.

A convoy of these to move house.

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province

Huqiu Shan (Tiger Hil)l, Suzhou (like Sue Joe), Jiangsu Province

Arh, the indispensible loudspeaker, even for her large group of three...

This is a very common occurance. The most important thing to establish here is to ensure that the crowd knows that the driver is not at fault. Injuries to the rider do not seem important.

Near my Uni, Nanjing (Have a closer look)

So how bad are the accidents in China?

Well, in 2001 the road toll was 100,600 dead. 2002 it reached 105,000 and in 2003 it topped over 110,000. And the figure does not include bicycle and pedestrian accidents.

You may think that that's not bad in a country of 1.3 billion, but when you consider that China has really only just started to take up the automobile, it boggles to think of what it will be in future.