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“There are nine million bicycles in Beijing, that’s a fact” according to Katie Melua. But no, that is history.

It is rare to see bicycles in China nowadays, mostly just in smaller cities like Hefei and Kaifeng, although small cities can still have several million people in China.

In the Forbidden City, but not in Beijing. It is not the real one. This one is located in Xiamen in the far south so that people there don’t have to travel that far. Chinese like to copy everything, even their own things.

The campus of Xiamen University. Founded in 1921 by Tan Kah Kee, a Chinese patriotic expatriate businessman in Singapore, the university has been perennially regarded as one of the top academic institutions in Southern China.

The Huazong University of Science and Technology is a typical Chinese university so of course Mao Zedong must not be missing.

It was a hot day in Wuhan. It is a habit of Chinese people to use sun umbrellas as they prefer a light skin tone.

And finally one of those creative Chinese translations. They are really talented in turning a standard text into something interesting.