Life and Travel in China

An authentic event, today... two guests flew from Poland to China for the first time. They went to shops, good department stores, and consumer electronics centers and found: laptops too expensive, good sports shoes too expensive, briefcases too expensive, gold also more expensive than in Poland, company clothes too expensive. It turned out that everything is cheaper in Poland than in China (retail, good brands and decent stores). This is the truth, in China people can afford expensive things (mainly in large cities). The gentlemen will return to Poland and do their shopping there, everything will be cheaper. Such is the reality!

It is a strange country where people aged 25-30 buy their own apartments, with their own money (not from their parents, for example), because they have a well-paid job and there is no shortage of such work, either in this company or in another. It's true that they take out loans, but they don't worry about repaying them. Of course, we are talking about cities, but China is developing very quickly, educated people and hard-working people always have great opportunities here.

In China, bread plays an increasingly important role. Previously, the Chinese ate such dumplings (sometimes with stuffing inside - mushrooms, vegetables, meat). They ate these white pampuch rolls, usually warm. Now there are special stands selling bread in supermarkets, there are even confectioneries. Unfortunately, there are no typical bakeries like in Poland. Their bread is, after all, different, it is far from delicious Polish bread or fresh rolls. Of course, the Chinese are still masters of copying. The supermarket already has Russian, Italian, German bread (I bought it yesterday) and even French long rolls. Only one bakery chain with a French name can make these rolls reasonably well. Other breads are average but still improving. Previously, they only offered sweet rolls (for example, a sweet roll with sausage) or hay-flavored bread, now there is a wider selection, fortunately.

I read in a Polish monthly that the USA, Japan and... China are getting ready to conquer the Moon. China plans to build space bases on the Moon in 2020, but as I know them, they will probably build them in 2018. Apparently they want to emphasize their economic power and progress. This can basically be seen in every city and town in China, everything is changing and developing at a faster or slower pace. Well, the authorities in Beijing also want to show this progress on the Moon. It looks like all the galactic wars we know from science fiction movies will become a fact. But I don't think anyone included Chinese bases and spaceships in these videos... wrong!

One Chinese woman tells me today that she is a Christian. I check... I ask her what three persons God appears in. Correct answer! I ask about the ten commandments, he doesn't really know what it is about. I give some suggestions, still nothing. I ask who was the previous pope? Answer: "I'm not interested in the Pope at all!" After a while, she adds: "Even if we know all the popes and follow the 10 commandments (which she doesn't know), we won't be saved if we don't follow the rules set by Jesus (these are the 10 commandments?!) - we won't be saved when the end of the world comes" - something like that. I told her that she had no idea what the Christian faith was and that she talked like she was on an American talk show. Slogans like "Jesus will save me!" However, the Chinese have problems with faith and most of them are atheists.