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!
https://radiosinoland.com/2025/07/27/amirjeffs-excellent-china-adventure-series-2025-hunan-jiangxi-fujian-and-shaanxi-provinces-red-tour-short-videos-captioned-photos-articles-and-commentary-the-real-chinese-people-you-don/
Note before starting
Baba Beijing really wants to keep promoting to the world that it is a developing country, i.e., much of it is still Third World. After seeing what we saw on this journey, going to the smallest villages, this is getting harder and harder to keep up. China’s massive infrastructure is now drilled down to hamlets and isolated rural areas. It’s great PR for the Moral Majority countries, but at some point they are going to have to stop making this claim.
JInggangshan has 1.5 million residents, making it a 4th-tier city. It is very isolated, midway between Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, and Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province. It is a slow-train town. No high-speed train. I discuss China’s city tieirs here,
Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #15. Hengyang, Hunan Province: Ferris wheels have taken over 3rd, 4th and 5th tier cities, creating summer nightlife and daytime winter fun. Must-read commentary, graph and 14 captioned photos.
https://radiosinoland.com/2025/07/30/amirjeffs-excellent-china-adventure-15-hengyang-hunan-province-ferris-wheels-have-taken-over-3rd-4th-and-5th-tier-cities-creating-summer-nightlife-and-daytime-winter-fun-intro-graph-and-14/
Here are the maps to see where JInggangshan is. It’s the boondocks, baby!
Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #22: Travel maps and daily itinerary table. All downloadable!
https://radiosinoland.com/2025/08/15/amirjeffs-excellent-china-adventure-22-travel-maps-and-daily-itinerary-table-all-downloadable/
Video
#1: this scenery is banal and everywhere in China. I’m not cherry picking. We get so used to it we don’t even think about it. Ho-hum. Yawn.
Transcript
This is the park outside the Revolution Museum, in Jinggangshan. It’s really beautiful. You can see the rugged mountains where the communists frustrated Chiang Kai-Shek until the fifth time, when he was finally able to flush them out. And that was the start of the Long March. It is really pretty.
Photos by Amir
Green and clean everywhere you go
#1: above: bamboo forests are absolutely enchanting, like scenes from a children’s fantasy book. Those trunks are 10cm in diamter and make great scaffolding on construction sites. Once dried, they are as strong as steel. The Judeo-Big Lie Propaganda Machine likes to falsey brag the US made the first oil well in 1859. NOT! It was stolen technology taken from the Chinese, who were using it for 1,800 years.
Thanks to big bamboo, in China, petroleum was used more than 2000 years ago. In I Ching, one of the earliest Chinese writings cites the use of oil in its raw state without refining was first discovered, extracted, and used in China in the first century BC, during the Han Dynasty. In addition, the Chinese were the first to use petroleum as fuel as early as the fourth century BC.
The earliest known gas wells were drilled in China in AD 347 or earlier (Joseph Needham proved it was 100BC). They had depths of up to about 800 feet (240 m) and were drilled using bits attached to big bamboo poles. The gas was burned to evaporate brine and produce salt. By the tenth century, extensive bamboo pipelines connected gas wells with salt springs. The ancient records of China are said to contain many allusions to the use of natural gas for lighting and heating. In his book Dream Pool Essays written in 1088, the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo of the Song dynasty coined the word 石油 (Shíyóu, literally “rock oil”) for petroleum, which remains the term used in contemporary Chinese. (excerpted from Wikipedia).
Much, much more about China’s 5,000-year progress in technology, innovation and invention. Be sure to download the free Technology Time Lag Table! Suitable for framing…
China Tech: Invention, Innovation, Technology, Research and Development – Past, Present, Future – 5,000 Years of Progress. A China Rising Radio Sinoland Living Document. By: Jeff J. Brown
#2: in China, 94% of the people live on 43% of the land, that being the East and Southern Coastal Plains and the Changjiang River (Yangstze) basin. We are in that zone, yet it is amazing how much wild land there is everywhere you turn. See below.
#3: This line is called the Heihe-Tengchong Line, or just the Hu Line, in tribute to the scientist who developed it. Only 6% of the Chinese live on 57% of the land, out west. That is why in my first China Trilogy book, 44 Days Backpacking in China, I sometimes felt like I was the last man on Earth, it was so isolated!
#4: we walked about six kilometers from our hotel to the Revolution Museum. Neatly arranged farm houses were in the valleys, like above. That huge monument is the Torch of Freedom, which we visited after seeing the museum. Of course, electricity lines are all over the place, to serve all those farm houses and villages.
#4: parks like this are a dime a dozen in China. Notice the beautiful cascade, center-left, flowing into the lake, with the nice carved balustades along the road where we were walking on. No trash or garbage anywhere. China is one big pictoresque post card!
Roads down to the county level are well-maintained. Development at every turn.
#5: that is our hotel where the cars are parked. This is a county road and you can see where they are keeping it in good shape, by backfilling the cracks with tar. Powerlines and forests are everywhere.
#6: again, you can see the road maintenance, powerlines and nice houses in the 4th-tier city of Jinggangshan, which is quite spread out in valleys.
#7: nice sidewalks and shrubbery all along the way, with houses tucked away in trees. We could be in Northern California.
#8: these are older, legacy apartments from the 80s-90s. They needed bars on the windows back then, since crime was so bad. Now, it’s no longer a problem, but people love them to hang laundry and store stuff. You can see how they extended extra space by building out the grills. They add several square meters to each apartment.
I wrote about 80s-90s China in an earlier post. For my family, it was seven years of grim,
Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #13: a critically important look back at my family’s life in 1990s China, to fully appreciate what you are living vicariously with us.
https://radiosinoland.com/2025/07/27/amirjeffs-excellent-china-adventure-13-a-critically-important-look-back-at-my-familys-life-in-1990s-china-to-fully-appreciate-what-you-are-living-vicariously-with-us/
#9: nice, big sidewalks, carved balustrades along the route and Torch-of-Freedom themed street lights give the place a unique feel.
Good signage along the way
#10: good signage is everywhere. Laws were recently passed so that all new signs must use Pinyin, Latinized Chinese, instead of English as the foreign language. The logic being, why give English a vaunted presence, when there are so many Japanese, Koreans, Russians and Europeans who visit China? It’s already started, like the blue sign on the right says, Erhuanxian, the Pinyin, instead of Second Ring Line.
Notice the passive water heating system on the house to the left. Something like 80% of China’s hot water comes from the Sun.
To the right, traffic cameras are everywhere.Taxi drivers using Baidu or A Maps in their cars will get warning after warning, Beware, there are traffic cameras up ahead! We learn to tune them out.
In the West, cameras are often hidden. In China, the people demand that they be kept out in open with signs to warn you. You can just see one of those signs at the top of this photo, with an image of a camera, in blue and white. The Judeo-Big Lie Propaganda Machine makes hay out of all the cameras in the open, that China is a “surveillance state”. In fact, it is the West that is the ultimate totalitarian police state, as I explain here,
China’s public Social Credit System versus the West’s secret Panopticon – By Jeff J. Brown on The Greanville Post
Wake up and smell the dystopia outside China.
#11: these convex traffic mirrors are a godsend, when driving. In Taiwan Province, they are everywhere and I spend most of my time behind the wheel going from one mirror to the next to navigate at every turn and intersection. They really cut down on accidents, especially with all the motorbikes. That’s Amir in the mirror image.
#12: the Chinese invest heavily in nice-looking signage. It’s everywhere you look. Notice the magnificent gardens behind.
#13: Construction, in big cities and small town is everywhere, along with tree-lined streets. Do you see any trash, anywhere?
#14: Towns and cities adopt logos to present themselves, and they get shown off on lightposts and signs. Here in Jinggangshan, the theme is the national flag of China up top and a red mountain with gold stars for Hengyangjie and Five Finger Peaks, which we already covered.
Here are the articles below, with our usual videos, photos, captions and commentary,
Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #23: Jiangxi Province, Jinggangshan. The 1927, 47-day Hengyangjie Battle is studied by military schools around the world. Four captioned videos+12 photos.
https://radiosinoland.com/2025/08/18/amirjeffs-excellent-china-adventure-23-jiangxi-province-jinggangshan-the-1927-47-day-hengyangjie-battle-is-studied-by-military-schools-around-the-world-four-captioned-videos12-photos/
Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #24: Jiangxi Province, Jinggangshan. Every Chinese knows about Five Finger Peaks and its symbolism for their communist revolution. The area is stunning. Four captioned videos + five photos.
https://radiosinoland.com/2025/08/21/amirjeffs-excellent-china-adventure-24-jiangxi-province-jinggangshan-every-chinese-knows-about-five-finger-peaks-and-its-symbolism-for-their-communist-revolution-the-area-is-stunning-four-cap/
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