Category: 新闻资讯

With the circulation of information becomes increasingly convenient, the whole world is like a village. People from one country to another country, travel or live without any barriers like before, nor need to travel across the ocean like Columbus. All you need is a set the formalities only.

© Image | GOOGLE

As an opening modern country, China has naturally welcomed countless foreign friends to visit and live. So, which city has the most numbers of foreigners? There is no doubt that “Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou” win the competition. The haunting “北上广” which cannot be avoided, is not only for the people of the country but also for the foreigners coming to China.

# Certainly, what are the differences between these foreigners in 北上广？

Beijing

As we all know, Beijing, formally romanized as Peking, is a city name people recognize around the globe, the political capital of China and can most appropriately be matched up to Washington, D.C. Because of the location, there is a huge number of East Asians and Russians living or working here.

For example, most of the  South Korean gather in Wangjing(望京). It is said that there are more than 100 thousand South Koreans living or staying here for a long time. Even when you walk in the street, you will hear some Korea which almost has a feeling of being in Seoul.

According to thebeijinger, WeChat went nuts on Mar 31, 2015, with a viral post from @shamelesschina, an anonymous account that launched its notoriety with a witty post outlining the eight types of the foreigner in Beijing.

There are Gulou Hipsters, Wudaokou Students, English Teachers, iBankers, Yuppies, Worn Out Junkies, Righteous Fighters and Glamorous Asians.

© Image | GOOGLE

Shanghai

The most cosmopolitan city and the New York of China, the flashing lights while on a river cruise will make you happy to call Shanghai home. The foreigners here are naturally in business, especially from East Asia, such as Japanese. Most Japanese in Shanghai live in Hengshan Road, Kangqiao, Lushan and Lujiazui, where close to Japanese companies.

© Image | GOOGLE

Traditionally there have two very visible types of foreigners working in Shanghai: senior executives running the China operations of multinational companies, and English teachers.

© Image | GOOGLE

Recently the first group has been declining as more Chinese nationals take leadership roles. In fact, the third big group of foreigners working in Shanghai is entrepreneurs. Shanghai for the past few years has been a global destination for smart young people who want to see the world, much the way New York, Barcelona and Paris. 

Guangzhou

Not to mention, Guangzhou is the third largest city in China and the original “gate to the West” because of trade, the capital of the fastest growing, richest province in China. Guangzhou is the manufacturing center of China and can be compared to Detroit (back when it was Motor City). 

© Image | ifeng.com

As China’s major trade center, the city has long been a key base for foreign nationals living in China. It is known for having a large African community. There are a few places here that have a decent amount of foreigners. Taojin, Xiaobei and San Yuan Li, these areas have a lot of foreigners doing trading business. Many of them are Africans, Arabs, Indians, or of Middle Eastern descent, so which is known as the capital of the third world countries.

Zhu Jiang New Town, Liede where a mix of Western Europeans, Arabs, and some Japanese along with Koreans stay here. It’s the most expensive part of the city. 

© Image | GOOGLE

With the improvement of China’s national strength, more and more Chinese cities are attracting the attention of the world, like Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Harbin. China is opening hands with an open mind and welcome you coming here. 

Twenty years ago, in 1999, it marked the end of an era, the end of a century. Do you still remember that year? Or were you born before that year?

• That year, mankind is about to usher in the millennium.

• That year, the world population exceeded 6 billion.

• That year, the last generation was born in 90’s.

……

20 years… how time flies!

Many inspiring stories began 20 years ago. Let’s take a look!

1

 

At the beginning of 1999, 35-year-old Jack Ma rekindled the dream of the Internet. He resigned from the state-owned enterprise and brought a few subordinates who were willing to go with him. 

The day before leaving Beijing, they went to climb the Great Wall. In Jack Ma’s home in Hangzhou, 18 people set aside 500,000 yuan to establish the Alibaba website. 

In the early days of the venture, Jack Ma played his eloquence to the fullest. Although a group of people couldn’t understand what he was talking about, they still followed him.

A few days later, a company in Hangzhou sent an advertisement in the newspaper, giving an annual salary of 100,000RMB. Its job slogan still seems to be stunned: “If not now, When? If not me, Who?”

Today, Jack Ma has announced his retirement, more and more citizens are addicted to the double 11 / double 12 shopping festivals. Online shopping has become our normal life.

2

In the same year, Robin Li resigned from Silicon Valley and returned to Beijing with a 1.2 million RMB venture capital investment. Posting job advertisements on Peking University campus, recruiting 6 employees, he founded Baidu. 

 

In the face of search giant Google, Robin Li firmly believes that “Google is just a landscape on the road of Baidu development.”

Today, Google has withdrawn from China for ten years, and Baidu’s market share has grown exponentially.

3

In 1999, Pony Ma’s company Tencent developed QQ’s predecessor, OICQ. The number of registered users has soared, and in less than a year after its launch, it has exceeded one million. 

Despite this early popularity, they still can’t find any profitable models to build. Pony Ma had to invest all the money to buy the company’s servers, which became a burden that Tencent could not afford. He had to sell QQ everywhere at a price of 1 million, but no one dared to buy it. 

In the next decade, QQ dominated. But now, the older the users, the fewer times they use QQ and the more they use WeChat. But it records the growth of the Chinese two generations.

4

 

That year, Richard Liu, who had just graduated for 2 years, took a 12,000RMB savings and rented a counter in Zhongguancun to sell recorders and CDs. The counter was called “Jingdong Multimedia”.

Today, JD Mall is booming, and Liu Qiangdong is caught in a sexual scandal and a crisis of trust.

5

That year, “Princess Pearl” won the 1999 ratings championship with a national average of 54% audience rating.

With popularity of the TV play, Zhao Wei, Lin Xinru, Su Youpeng and others became the most popular public idols at that time. After that, during the summer vacation, winter vacation and the Spring Festival holidays, the major TV stations will repeat the TV series again and again.

6

In 1999, the 127th Macau Governor Rocha Vieira walked out of the Macau Government and the Portuguese flag was lowered. 

In the powerful melody of “The March of the Volunteers”, the five-star red flag and the flag of the Macao SAR rose, and Macao finally returned to the embrace of the motherland.

Nowadays, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has been opened and there is no barrier between mainland China and Macao.

7

On October 1, New China has gone through half a century and celebrated its 50th anniversary. The grand military parade held on Tianmen Square was called the “century parade.”

8

On the National Day of 1999, the People’s Bank of China issued a fifth set of RMB.

Today, we don’t have to take cash to go out, a mobile phone travels all over the world.

9

That year, Yao Ming, who was just 18 years old and a rookie, joined the national basketball team.

Three years later he became the NBA champion and responded to those who questioned and laughed at him with perfect performance.

10

In 1999, mobile phones were available, but fixed phones still dominated majority of calls. No online shopping, no smartphones, no apps… not many homes have computers; most people go online at Internet cafes.

Today, we don’t necessarily need to go shopping outside because we can buy clothes online and send them to our home within a few days.

We use smartphones and have a large number of apps for a variety of applications – food distribution, news, social networking, email, messaging, games…

Life is more convenient, but everyone becomes a phone snubber, the consequence of which has seen a deterioration in direct, genuine communication between people.

1999 was an impressive year.

It was the millennium.

 

There have been a lot of changes 

in the past 20 years…

Time flies, but treasure every moment 

with the one you care.

It’s a fact that beauty standards and different perceptions vary a lot across the world, not to mention that each person has his own understanding. After the rise of social media, the cult of beauty trends became so important that some people even go an extra mile to look pretty just for the appearance on the internet.

© Image | GOOGLE

 

“Fake beauties” are popular 

on social media

 

So what defines beauty? In some parts of the world, it’s the Rubenesque full figured woman, in others – bushy brows and dark hair. In some parts of Asia, e.g., China, some people reach the whole new level of creativity regarding the definition of beauty. 

 

The new Asian makeup fad is to look as delicate as porcelain dolls. And though the porcelain doll makeup look is nothing new, these girls here take it very seriously. Application of professional makeup now means not only highlighting their existing features but also creating new ones with the help of fake skin extensions, false eyelashes, and even special effects makeup.

The video below, that went viral recently, shows the process of Asian girls removing their “sculpted” faces, and most of them become completely unrecognizable. Scroll down to see the makeup transformations for yourself and let me know your opinion about this in the comments below! 

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

 

#10

 

 

 

A Shenzhen-based LED screen company has banned employees from using Apple products for three years in a show of support for Chinese tech companies. The move was sparked after Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was recently arrested in Canada. Meng was released on bail in Vancouver some time ago after spending ten days in Canadian custody. 

© Image | GOOGLE

According to an announcement released on Menpad’s website earlier in December, they will fine employees 100 percent of the cost of whatever Apple product they buy in the course of the next three years. 

© Image | SOHU

 

According to Technode, the company will also subsidise 15 percent of purchases by employees who snap up Huawei and ZTE products instead. 

Ms. Sun, a marketing employee at the company, said that

“we introduced the new rule following the recent arrest of Meng [Wanzhou], and as a patriotic Chinese, our boss wanted to show support for Huawei, a company that China takes pride in. The new rule will be in place over the next three years.”

 The Arrest of Huawei’s CFO Rages A War Between Three Countries!

Also stipulated in the announcement by the company was the fact that employees are not allowed to buy American cars, although they will be rewarded with double commissions if they manage to export products to the US.