Hi guys! Many of you are interested in studying in China or moving to China.
And today, I’m going to introduce the eight reasons why I love living in China.
And you might ask what is this? This is the hand sign for “eight” in Chinese. In Chinese,
you can do all of the hand signs with just one hand, you don't need to do this.
So, that's very convenient. So, as a young person, you have many different choices about
where you want to live and where you want to study. So, for me, I could live in UK or US,
or even I could move to a beach and live by a beach, but I chose to live in China. Firstly,
I first came to China as a semester student. I studied at Peking University, and I only planned
to stay there for six months. And here I am, I’ve created a business and I decided to move to China
and live in China, and I’m going to introduce the eight reasons why I love living in China.
So, the first reason I love living in China is because everything is super fast. I can just get
everything done really quickly. If I want to buy something on the phone, I can just order it and
it will come maybe three hours later. And, there's just such a fast pace of movement here. And many
people think that China is some ways inefficient, but actually this is changing a lot and China is
just moving so fast, and you can just get so many things done really fast. So, one example is when
I want to get a new bank card. I went to the bank and got a new card, and it took about 10 minutes
to get it done. They just verified my identity, and they gave me a new bank card in 10 minutes.
And just so many things are just becoming really efficient in China, like traveling on the trains
or just taking a flight. You can just book it on your phone and then you can just go,
and you can just do anything like that. If I want to do this in other countries, I think normally
it would take about one week, I have to get the bank card by the post. This is just one example,
but there's many things that are really fast in China. The second thing I love about China is
there are just so many opportunities. When I first came to China, I studied in Peking University,
which is the number one university in China, joined number one with Tsinghua.
And it was just amazing to be in this elite place where there's so many smart people, and
just see so many opportunities. And then I created a company which is called China Admissions,
and this is for international students to apply to Chinese universities. And from this,
I got support from Chaoyang Beijing government as well. And I just, I just think as a foreigner,
there's a lot of opportunities in China and I can just see them all around.
And the third thing I love about China is just the energy. It’s just kind of electric, and many
people say this when they leave China, they really want to come back because they miss the fast pace,
the energy and the feeling of like these things are happening, and things are growing, and there's
opportunities here. So, the fourth thing I love about China is the history. I actually,
I think the Chinese history is fascinating. And there's many stories in history that you
just couldn't imagine, that you couldn't - no one could ever think of this. So, if you look at the
Tang dynasty and different things that happened in China's history between the Warring States
period and how China is reunited and divided, and how they have all these different amazing stories
in the history, it's just fascinating. It’s also really cool that everyone really understands their
history really well. I think this is unique, and many countries - they don't really understand
their history. And they're very proud in having 5000 years of history. I think it gives a lot
of advantages if you can understand history. Because it means that when you look at history,
you can understand the future much better, and you can see how things are changing and all the trends
and the big picture looking at history. You look at the present moment and actually there's things
that repeat, and you can also learn a lot of lessons from history as well. The fifth thing I
love about China is the Chinese food, and there's so many amazing dishes in China. Many people think
that Chinese food is like all the same, or they have this idea about what Chinese food is like
from their home country. For example, from UK, you have sweet and sour chicken. It’s not that common
in China, because Chinese food is like as rich and diverse as European cuisine, or maybe more. And
there's so many different regions that have their own specialty. So, you have really varied food in
China, and it's amazing to try all these different kinds of food from different regions. It’s
also really easy to eat food in China, because there's so many amazing restaurants everywhere.
And you can also just order it on your phone on an app. Just quickly order the food and then it just
comes in like 40 minutes, so it's really easy. So, the sixth thing I love about China, and you
might ask what is this? This is the hand sign for “six” in China. They have one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine and then ten. So, you can do everything all on one hand.
So, the sixth thing I love about China is the people. And so before I came to China,
I had a misconception about Chinese people, maybe from the media. And when I came to China,
I realised that it's just everyone is so friendly and warm, especially in Beijing. Beijing is known
as having very warm and friendly people. It's just amazing to meet so many interesting people
especially when you can speak the language as well. Seventh thing I love about living in
China - there's so many amazing places to visit, and I love traveling in China. You have everything
here. You have big mountains, you have beautiful seaside. You can just travel to many different
places, but right now because of COVID, I can't leave the country very easily. It’s quite good to
explore different parts of China, and there's many really interesting cities with a lot of
history. Like, Tianjin actually has a really interesting centre of the town,
which has a lot of Western influence. Shanghai as well. And then you have very interesting places,
like in Beijing, you have the Hutong. And you have many interesting places all over China,
especially Yunnan, it’s very beautiful, it’s in the South of China. And it's really amazing to
explore different parts of China because there's just so many amazing, cool places in China. So,
the eighth thing I love about living in China is the language. And it's just really cool,
fascinating language. It’s amazing how Chinese has developed so differently from English in the West.
And just understanding the language is like, this whole new world opens up.
And I can understand lots of different ideas and see things in a different way,
and it just feels like it expands my mind and it broadens my mind, and it's also really fun.
I really enjoy speaking Chinese. It's a really cool language to talk and it's just
quite fun when you can speak another language. I really enjoy that part of living in China. So,
those are my eight reasons why I love living in China. If you're interested to learn Chinese or
if you're interested to move to China, check out China Admissions. We’re an online platform where
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