China

China (officially the People's Republic of China (PRC) – an ancient, mysterious and beautiful land, is always appealing to adventurous foreign visitors. The first thing that strikes visitors to the country is the extraordinary density of its population. In much of China, villages, towns and cities seem to sprawl endlessly into one another along the grey arteries of busy expressways. The main tourist highlights – the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Terracotta Army and the Yangzi gorges, are relatively few considering the vast size of the country, and much of China’s historic architecture has been deliberately destroyed in the rush to modernize.

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China - The Chinese are grudgingly efficient in everything they do. Even their food reeks of efficiency, a fact that does not sit too well with their competitors, but what do they do if they cannot help it? The English say that 'if you cannot beat them, join them'. I will go further and say that if you cannot beat them, join them and then emulate them.

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