TenCent’s car-free, futuristic mini-city in ShenZhen 深圳

In 2016, 100 students from low-income Lincoln high school, Tacoma, Washington State, embarked on a journey of a lifetime, following a personal invitation by president Xi JinPing. Travel expands one's horizons, and creates the real understanding ... Bonus film - Chinese president Xi JinPing's trip to Lincoln high school in 2015 ...

A beautiful hike. The journey takes about 4 to 5 hours at a reasonably relaxing pace.

With Where's Poppy and Travelight ...

With Walk For You ...

[May 15th 2017] Heat-wave ahead ! Summer is hotting up in BeiJing this week - into the high 30s C (90s F in old money). Keep cool (keep hydrated), be cool (sensible, giving and creative), keep in touch (we love your feedback and input), and above all - love life (live more; BE love) ... Like our site ? - help us with a donation. Something to share ? - your own film or something you like - let us know ! To have and to be - huh ? The two big verbs - to have and to be ... Thinking through this seemingly abstract concept could change your life, for the better. Two very different ways to live; or rather - really live or not really live. To have is good, to a point; but can be a holding onto more than we really need, and a baggage of the past dragged into the future that prevents us living in the real now. For what we 'have' is not just physical stuff - it is also the clutter and beliefs in our mind. To be, is to live, free of the past and all that we 'have' (and 'know'). Live more ... be more ... Listen less (to others and beliefs), and look more (and think more, based on what is, not on what you have heard). Someone once said that to love is much better than to be loved; to give so much better than to receive (have); and so it is with to have and to be ... To be is the way. Everything taken, comes to an end. Everything given ripples through time for an eternity. To ask for nothing, and give all - that is love. To be, not to have. ~~~ You might like to read Erich Fromm's To Have or To Be, and The Art of Love, which also explore this concept, and is essentially what the Buddha told us. Easy read; concise and potent. Also good reading : Jiddhu Krishnamurthi - for example, Commentaries on Living (three easy read volumes), and Alan Watts - for example, The Way of Zen.

With Erich Fromm ... The Art of Being ... The Art of Love ...

Tropical Hainan Island to Harbin in China's north east The Harbin Snow and Ice Festival (every January) Beijing - the Forbidden City ZhangJiaJie HuangShan Snowboarding at NanShan, Beijing 'My Shangri-la - a trip through Yunnan province 'One can never forget LiJiang' - Yunnan province 'Beautiful snow county is my home' - HeiLongJiang province

The Yangtze or YangZi (Cháng jiāng) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. Its source is in the northern part of the Tibetan Plateau and flows 6,300 km (3,900 miles) in a generally eastern direction to the East China Sea near ShangHai.

ZhuHai is sometimes referred to as the 'Chinese Riviera' and located close to GuangZhou, ShenZhen, Macau and Hong Kong in GuangDong province, south east China. The city is regarded as a 'garden city' ...