Beijing 2209: Then and now

Date: 2009.05.15 | Category: General | Tags:

This post has some interesting pictures showing changes from 2008 to now. I didn’t realize they’d done some reconstruction on the Mutianyu Great Wall section. I think the picture is at the start of the area where you’re not supposed to walk (if you go left once you get to the Wall itself), but it isn’t labeled. I didn’t get there or to the Qianmen pedestrian street on my last trip. I did notice the pollution was much, much better, although I wonder how much of that has to do with the economic slowdown (perhaps in the larger catchment area stretching to Tianjin, because I didn’t notice too much of a slowdown in Beijing itself).