Bao Bao celebrating the National Day in Chaoyang Park
Yesterday China was celebrating the National Day. I and P.R.C was born in the same year -1949.
There was a lot of events all over Beijing. Bao Bao and ShiZhiting was in Chaoyang Park (acroos the street from our apartment) most of the day together with many thousand other Beijingers. This week most of chinese people have holiday and is visiting their families and home towns.
The People's Republic of China is a unified, multi-national country, comprising 56 nationalities. The Han people make up 91.02 percent of the total population, leaving 8.98 percent for the other 55 ethnic minorities. They are Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Uygur, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Bouyei, Korean, Manchu, Dong, Yao, Bai, Tujia, Hani, Kazak, Dai, Li, Lisu, Va, She, Gaoshan, Lahu, Shui, Dongxiang, Naxi, Jingpo, Kirgiz, Tu, Daur, Mulam, Qiang, Blang, Salar, Maonan, Gelo, Xibe, Achang, Pumi, Tajik, Nu, Ozbek, Russian, Ewenki, Benglong, Bonan, Yugur, Jing, Tatar, Drung, Oroqen, Hezhen, Moinba, Lhoba and Gelo. All nationalities in China are equal according to the law. The State protects their lawful rights and interests and promotes equality, unity and mutual help among them.
Beijing is now a "quite" city and is really enjoyable since it is much easier to travek around with car and taxi. The airport express way and the ringroads now just have half the traffic and it is almost as going by car in the mornings between Malmö and Lund...
But during the holidays it is estimated that 1,7 million (chinese) tourists will visit Beijing.
There is perhaps no better time to savor the charm of Tian'anmen Square than during the week-long National Day holiday. Stretching in front of the Forbidden City, it is ablaze with the color of 400,000 pots of flowers in full bloom.
This year's major events can be seen at the city's center. Looking east are scale models of the Acropolis in Athens, the Great Wall, and a 9.8-meter Olympic torch, which represents the torch relay from Greece to China. To the south can be seen models of the Temple of Heaven and major scenes marking key events in the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to welcome the 17th National Congress of the CPC which starts on October 15.
A big fountain sprouts water as high as 60 meters in the middle of the square surrounded by a bed of flowers.
Work on the decorations and flower displays started about 25 days ago, and was carried out at night to avoid disrupting tourists and traffic. This year's decorations include 130 kinds of flowers, of which more than 20 will also be on display during the next year's Olympic Games. If weather permits, the flowers will be shown until the end of the month.
The national flag raising ceremony will also be a major attraction. At dawn Monday, an estimated 200,000 people will gather at Tian'anmen Square to watch the event.
