China Yunnan
Planning, ambition and pragmatism given credit as drivers of transformation
On his first visit to Beijing in the early 1980s, Eberhard Sandschneider was struck by a sea of bicycles — a daily sight that would later become the exact picture in his mind when humming the melody of the song Nine Million Bicycles. The city moved at a relaxed pace then, its streets defined more by simplicity than speed. Returning to the Chinese capital last week, Sandschneider, a professor emeritus at the Free University of Berlin, de…
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