Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure Series. 2025: Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Shaanxi Provinces’ Red Tour. Short videos with transcripts, captioned photos, articles and commentary. The REAL Chinese people you don’t know!

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Photos by Amir

Toilets

#1: Starting in the 2010s, the Chinese have the best and most readily availalble public toilets anywhere. Metro systems have toilets, diaper and nursing stations, all attended to by a real person on duty. Try taking a leak in the New York Metro, except on the ground or changing a diaper in Paris’.

The go-to mantra in today’s China is “accountability”, everywhere you go. Toilet sanitation included. The photo above is of the man responsible for the public toilet we used. Coat and tie, member of the Communist Party of China (lapel button), who takes his job very seriously. I know, because we could have had a pic-nic on the floor. Yes, communists clean toilets. It’s called “Serve the People”.

#2: An information panel like this is posted as you enter most public toilets. The 138- phone number is to call the boss, who is responsible for this area’s toilets. His full name is provided too, Wang Jianxiang (王建祥). There is even a notebook, where you can leave suggestions or comments!

#3: The CPC member who proudly cares for this public toilet is named Ning Lasheng (宁腊生). 131- is his personal mobile phone number. If you call with a problem in the toilet, I’m sure he will be there pronto.

12345 is the national phone number anyone can call to complain or make suggestions. It might be about corruption, a broken water main, a crime committed, someone polluting or the fact you do not like that a certain park has a too-high entry ticket. Anything and everything.

Unlike in the West, where you go through endless menus, key punches and long waits, 12345 is available 24/7 and gets answered by a REAL human being who listens to you. I’ve used it  a few times myself. It is HUGELY popular among the people and for Baba Beijing, a great way to keep tabs on what’s going on around the country and where there are problems with governance and management.

#4: In spite of maintaining a pristeen public toilet, Mr. Ning’s is rated 2nd Class (er = 二). Not fair for what he does. I suspect it has more to do with the physical building itself, over which he has no control.

Infrastructure

#5: Who wouldn’t want to live in an urban environment like this? Nice apartments, nice streets and sidewalks, nice parks in every direction. Tons of cheap, delicious restaurants everywhere (we ate in the restaurant on the left). In the background is the Torch of Freedom momument, which I reported on (https://radiosinoland.com/2025/08/27/amirjeffs-excellent-china-adventure-27-jiangxi-province-jinggangshan-infrastructure-in-this-4th-tier-city-beats-most-of-the-west-how-does-it-stack-up-to-where-you-live-video-maps-14-photos/)

Since it does not look heavy, just her thumb and forefinger, he woman is maybe carrying recycling to a nearby center. The umbrella is not for rain, it’s protection from the Sun. She’s in the shade and doesn’t use it for now, but it will pop up when needed. Many Chinese women go to great lengths to keep from getting tanned, wearing gloves, complete face and arm coverings when going outside. White skin mania predates Western colonization, going back into imperial times, but it added to the obsession. Drug stores are full of skin-whitening agents

#6: It was mid-afternoon, hot and muggy as hell and the secondary streets were mostly deserted. Thank goodness the Chinese have planted millions of plane/sycamore trees in all the cities and towns, because on days like this, they serve their canopied, shade purpose. Parks and greenery are everywhere. Immaculate. Across the street is a big public park and at the end of our wide sidewalk is a nice tree garden.

With every Chinese and their dead dog owning a car these days, parking can be a challenge, like for the apartments on the left. Looks like there is one open slot. As you can see, the predominant car color is white.

Thus, parking lots are being built at a furious rate to accomodate them. In bigger cities, you can’t just go out, buy a car and start driving. You first must get a selected car lottery ticket. Each year, the city announces how many tickets it is drawing, usually in the tens of thousands and you cross your fingers your lucky number is drawn. If not, you wait until the next year, etc. The drawn lottery ticket authorizes you to buy car license plates.

In the four megacities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Chongqing), new plates can cost ¥100,000 (around €12,000). The price goes down with the city tiers. There is a whole after-market to buy/sell, and yes, rent plates! This is what some do until their lucky number is drawn.

#7: This is definitely NOT the China my family and I lived in in 1990. This is a county road winding through the valley were Jinggangshan is situated. Broad, spotless, well maintained and with colorful signage, trees and gardens. In the foreground is planted broom grass, which I reported on in the previous post (https://radiosinoland.com/2025/09/13/amirjeff-s-excellent-china-adventure-28-jiangxi-province-jinggangshan-vignettes-of-daily-life-in-china-s-remote-hinterlands-three-transcripted-short-videos-plus-many-explained-food-photos/).

Attractive? This could be a postcard from rurual France or Switzerland.

The Chinese people

#8: This is an iconic photo of modern Chinese culture, taken outside the Jinggangshan Revolution Museum. No, the cartoon character on the man’s t-shirt is not from an animated movie or childen’s book. As a Chinese version to the original Japanese emoticons, someone came out with a whole set of emotion GIFs of Panda Man, dressed in a martial art tunic: happy, sad, frustrated, hungry, greedy, etc. He represents Mr. Chinese Everyday Man/Woman.

Panda Man took off like wildfire and is now everywhere in Chinese social media. It has spawned a copycat industry, with fans taking the head image and putting it everywhere, on t-shirts, hats, phone backs and on and on.

This museum goer was happy to stand up and show off his Panda Man. It says, 

A punishment of bitterness then sweetness. I’ve had a hard life, year after year (一句先苦后甜。。。哭了我。。。一年又一年 = Yiju xianxu houtian… Kulewo… Yinianyou yinian).

This man had a great sense of humor!

#9: In a restaurant where we ate lunch, even before sitting down, I saw this woman practicing her calligraphy, using text off her phone and she kindly let me take her photo. She was taking here time and seeking perfection. Below her glasses case is her pen case, likely with spare ink cartridges. So, she is a dedicated calligrapher.

It was about 15:00 and officially closed between shifts, but they where excited to host foreigners and the chef and two waiters got up to serve us. As we were ordering, I suddenly realized that someone was barking instructions to the staff. I turned around and guess who it was? The calligrapher! She confirmed that she was the owner. 

She made sure we had a great meal!

#10: Construction projects are expected to plaster community service propaganda outside the barriers of the worksite. This one is noteworthy compared to Western attitudes. It says,

WE LOVE HARD WORK (Women ai laodong = 我们爱劳动).

When was the last time you heard that and it being promoted in the West? Maybe WWII.

In the upper lefthand corner is the Seal of China, with the national flag hovering over Tiananmen Square. To the right of the seal, it says, “Civilizational Constructurion  Practice Safety” (文明施工  注意安全 = Wenming Shigong   Zhuyi Anquan).

Yes, in China’s millennial culture, construction is civilization!

In the middle you see, “中国梦“ (Zhongguomeng), which means, Chinese Dream, something I have written about a lot, in my books and in my articles. Xi Jinping announced the term in 2012, right after being elected Party General Secretary/President (https://radiosinoland.com/2025/08/15/state-of-the-chinese-union-2025-based-on-five-months-recently-journeying-across-the-countrys-backwoods16-years-living-there-presentation-given-to-samui-real-thailand-13-august-2025/). The American and European versions are dying slow Judeo-deaths, while the Chinese are thriving.

In Chinese propaganda, ancient/minority tribe artwork is often blended in with modern motifs. This one portrays two boys riding water buffalo, talking to each other, with two fantastic birds flying overhead and surrounded by Jurassic-looking plants and flowers.

Why do they do this? It is a powerful reminder that in today’s age, tradition and custom are still writ large on the Chinese’s souls.

About the only thing missing on the panel is the communist-socialist hammer and sickle. Not to worry, it was on several of the others along the row!

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