Anqi Reflections

From this OELP trip, I learnt that China did not really lag behind Singapore. They are as advanced as Singapore. To me, I do not really feel that China is a developing country. I felt that it is a developed country like Singapore. China keep improving, their technologies, transports and other things. The technologies they used are advanced. In the school in China, they have smart board. This will prevent the students to face the trouble of not being able to pull down the projector screen or the projector screen would not stay pulled down. They also have a computer attach teacher's desk and every teacher teaching that class use the same computer. With this, the AV rep did not need to set up a computer every lesson and saved some time. Sometimes, some teacher's computer have technical error like no sound or the screen changed colour. With the computer in the teacher's desk shared by the teachers will save us from these problems.

  China also had invented a Siri type of software which can scan the voice better than Siri. They also invented car with tablet attach to it and a smart phone brand called xiaomi. The tablet allowed the driver to use the driving plate to control the tablet to search for songs to listen or search for the roads to travel to the place they want. They also had fridge with the tablet attach to it. The tablet take note of the freshness of the vegetables and remind the owner which vegetables are going to 'expire' soon. The tablet also take note of the food and ingredients present In the fridge.

  The transportation in China also became quite convenient. They have this high speed rail to  travel from one city to another. Taking high speed rail is more comfortable than taking cars or bus. The high speed rail also travelled in high speed so that the duration of the trip to be shorter. The price of the high speed rail is also quite reasonable. This will encourage more people to tame high speed rail than cars or buses. Other than transporting people, the high speed rail also transport goods. This will encourage business man to transport their goods from one city to another by high speed rail instead of lorries or trucks. This will result in the decreased of carbon dioxide emission of China. 

  Although China keep improving, they did not forget about their culture and history. They preserved the houses of the famous and rich people and some villages. The heritage places provide us with the informations of the famous people, their life stories, their achievements and their beliefs. Examples of the heritage places we visited are Bao Gong Ci and Li HongZhang 故居. These places showed interesting stories of how they help China. The villages preserved like the San He Gu Zhen showed us how the building are structured in the past and the meaning behind every structures, cravings and couplets. We also see difference between the house of a business man in the past and the house of an official. There are rules behind the renovating the house. For example, no matter how rich a business man is, his house cannot  be more grand or bigger than an official's house. These heritage places allowed the Chinese to know more about their whole race and religions. 

  In conclusion, China improved a lot on their technologies and transportation. At the same time, they did not forget about their culture and history and put in efforts to preserved them.