Beijing Guide 🇨🇳 Things to do, where to go + impressions of China's capital after 10 years! 北京
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- After about one decade since we set foot in Beijing 🇨🇳, we finally returned to the capital city of China and WOW, has it transformed massively ✨. In this video, we will share what has changed in Beijing since our last visit, tips on navigating, and more! So whether you're planning a visit or just curious about how China's capital has changed over the years, this video could be a useful one for you!!!
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Here's a list of topics we covered:
0:00 Introduction
0:35 About us
1:12 Last time in Beijing
2:31 What did we do this time?
3:01 Tech: QR Codes
3:27 Tech: Wechat and Alipay mini-apps
5:25 Tech: Traffic maps
5:56 Beijing is so much safer
6:30 Digital payments now prevalent
6:55 Safety: Airport style security
7:40 Safety: Amap
8:09 Transport: Electric vehicle transformation
9:02 Transport: Battery lockers
9:20 Less street vendors today
9:40 Transport: Beijing metro
10:58 Post-covid restrictions lifted
12:05 Two-wheeled transport
12:29 Toilet spotting
13:22 Smoking in Beijing
14:00 Air pollution in Beijing
14:46 Great Wall of China
16:13 Forbidden City
16:52 Summer Palace (颐和园)
17:18 Yuan Ming Yuan (Old Summer Palace)
17:44 Other Beijing attractions
18:04 Beijing reflections
18:50 Beijing new architecture
19:08 More receptive towards Beijing food
19:36 Art districts 751 and 798
20:27 Ticket bookings
22:11 Local mainland phone numbers
22:58 Beijing via Tianjin
23:37 Wangfujing snack street
24:45 Language barriers
27:05 Tap water is not potable
27:35 Beijing mosquitos
28:02 Personal space
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super useful, especially for the 8 tips for first time visitors to beijing!😁
Going to Beijing and other cities in China with my class from the UK. I’m super excited
great vid. I think China is one of the most underrated countries to visit. China has so much to see and so many things to do. From city lovers to tropical beach goers to mother nature lovers, China has it all.
Absolutely!
Though pre-pandemic tourism figures show that China is the world’s fourth most visited country for international travelers behind the US, Spain and France.
Received almost 60 million foreign tourists.
Good to know so many EV, ebikes , few gas stations. China cares for green environment. Less pollution contributing to improved world climate change! If only the corporate western media are courageous enough to report the truth, the world is better off!
thanks for sharing all, it will be helpful for me
Thanks for your useful information guys
Thanks for the informative and engaging video!
Amazing video and great overview for anyone looking to travel into Beijing and China 2023. Just got back and shared a lot of the same observations like being impressed by the traffic light countdown on the map. Also trying to spend 100RMB notes...
Yes haha we had such similar experiences!
Great tips! I wasn’t sure if I should plan trip or pay for tours but after watching this video, I’m paying for tour to be less stress.
Good tips, Much appreciated.
Thank you for this amazing video and its of great production quality as well! I am going to Beijing for a short 6 weeks exchange at Changgung Hospital (under Tsinghua University) and this really helped me a lot :) Cheers!
wonderful
Very helpful video for my wife and me, we're both non-speaking Chinese, but of Chinese origin. So we expect different reactions from the ones experienced by "non-Chinese looking tourists".
didn't know that the wangfujing market closed!!! great tip thank u
appreciate all the much needed tips in this video! hope we survive it with the language barrier haha
Have fun!
How did you resolve the overseas phone number issue in the end? I try to use apps but all require local phone number. Many thanks.
Hi! We loved your video and travelling to Beijing ourselves next month. Any chance you could share your itinerary? We'll also be travelling with parents.:) Thank you for your videos!
Hey! We have the itinerary in our Beijing vlog (czcams.com/video/BCRoLjYnMw0/video.htmlsi=L8VPEn99KXIWOAwE)
Hope this helps! Remember to get your tickets beforehand, and stay flexible with your plans ☺
i was thinking of traveling to beijing tho and this video came out of nowhere, so thanks for the video and i'd hope that beijing or china will be an a amazing trip for me :)
Hope you enjoyed the video, we tried to squeeze in as much as we could! And I'm sure your trip will be a great one :)
what is the average daily cost or budget do you spend in beijing (excluding hotels)?
As of this writing on Saturday when I GOOGLED, "Beijing AQI" it says the Air Quality Index of Beijing is 155 and RED or Unhealthy Air Quality. Unfortunately, it is this for most of the year in Beijing. China used 4,252 METRIC TONS in 2023 and the US used 459 METRIC TONS in 2023. Yes, China uses 10 times burning of coal. China has an endless supply of cheap coal in Norther China and they need this to produce electriity to warm homes and to keep all the manufacturing production going.
China’s huge network of coal mines, already responsible for more than half of global production, has churned out record volumes of the black rock this year in response to demands from Beijing to make sure the country has a stable supply of electricity.
China’s powerful leader, Xi Jinping, has said that the fossil fuel will remain the “mainstay” of the Chinese power system in the near term, even as the country installs massive amounts of wind, solar, hydro and nuclear power.
An obsession among policymakers about energy security has been worsened in recent years by power shortages exacerbated by heat waves and freezing winters causing spiking power demands.
After a cold snap plunged temperatures to record lows across northern China this month, electricity demand hit its highest ever daily level on Dec. 17, with 70 percent of supply for households being met by coal, Chinese state media reported.
In an apparent attempt to regain momentum in the fight against air pollution, China last month announced a plan to ensure that concentrations of fine particulate matter fall 10 percent nationwide and 20 percent in Beijing and its surroundings between 2020 and 2025.
Hazardous air pollution rebounded in most major Chinese cities this year, research showed, after a surge in coal burning and industrial activity upended a decade of progress toward cleaner skies.
Compared to 2022, levels of microscopic particles spewed into the air from burning fossil fuels were up 7.7 percent by the end of November, the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a Finland-based nonprofit, said on Friday.
When inhaled, these tiny pieces of pollution known as PM 2.5 can be severely harmful to health. One study estimated that air pollution caused 1.85 million deaths in China in 2019.
While unfavorable wind patterns and rainfall may be partially to blame, the rise was concentrated in areas of the country’s coal and heavy industry hubs, according to the group’s analysis of air quality readings alongside industrial and power generation data.
so did you guys get a chinese sim card once you are there so you can get a chinese phone number on your phone to use chinese apps like meituan, alipay wechat for payment etc.? did you need your foreign passport to get the chinese sim card? what about for foreigners that can't read chinese? what apps would you recommend for map direction, restaurant orders, watching youtube etc.?
Were you from Hwa Chong? 2009 immersion programme 😊
Would getting a local SIM card be better?
After connect Alipay to card, do we have to keep our mobile phone from our country active when we're on China in order to use Alipay?
“汤匙”大多是中国南方使用的名词，北京人都知道 汤匙 =勺子，但北京餐厅的服务员都是外地人，所以。。。
Perfect travel vlog thanks. My single gripe: the accompanying low fi sound I found unbearable. I was crying “turn it off, so I can hear your good voices without competition!” But that’s just me I guess.
弱冷train cabins also available in Japan
Also, for airport .. did you take airport train to the hotel or you choose for airport transfer?
We flew into Tianjin, and took the high speed train to Beijing. Catch our short on it here: czcams.com/users/shortsgz0OaRS0zxg?feature=share
Is it better to buy ticket from Klook ahead ?
Japanese trains have markings for strong and weak air-con.
Didn't know that! I've only seen signs for female carriages
Hello, pleasure to meet you, I'm Angelo!
I would like to ask some questions to experienced individuals about China in this group, as I have no one else to consult and I'm considering if it's better to choose another destination in Europe. I sincerely thank you in advance for your help.
I have the opportunity to go to Beijing on Erasmus at Beihang University, where I would be taking some exams for my master's degree in Computer Engineering. However, I have some doubts.
The courses will be conducted in English, so there shouldn't be any issues from that perspective, but I wonder if most people have a good grasp of English in general.
Regarding accommodation, I believe I would be assigned a university residence, which would help me save on costs. However, I would like to know if the overall cost of living (such as expenses, for example) is high. How much is typically spent monthly?
I am particularly concerned about the severe air pollution that I've heard about. I would like to know what precautions you take and if I should expect to have to live wearing a mask and keeping the windows closed. Have you experienced any health problems due to pollution?
Thank you very much for your help!
I got my master degree in Beijing from 2014 to 2017. At that time, my monthly living expenses is about 2000RMB. Currently, I guess 3000 RMB is enough. Regarding air pollution, don't worry for that. There's very very big improvement in recent 10 years in Beijing. Even though there's no obvious improvement in other province, Beijing and its surrounding city must not have serious air pollution again because the central government locate here, these powerful men don't want to breathe bad air😂
You should visit chan resort 😏
Actual tips and not click bait.
Thanks for your support!
😍 Promo>SM
Hong Kong country 🐼🐼🐼
Before traveling to foreign countries one needs to prepared.,Don't go u prepared. Your elders were uninformrd.
不需要记住地铁线路的号码或者路线，只需要把你想要去的地铁站输入地图app就行了，软件会给你推荐线路，从那里换乘，哪个出口都一清二楚
谢谢💓
How did you resolve the overseas phone number issue in the end? I try to use apps but all require local phone number. Many thanks.
How did you resolve the overseas phone number issue in the end? I try to use apps but all require local phone number. Many thanks.
How did you resolve the overseas phone number issue in the end? I try to use apps but all require local phone number. Many thanks.
I'm wondering the same thing too. The attraction bookings all need local phone number to book
买个中国的SIM卡，可以解千愁