Mutual trust, equality and respect will be celebrated in Beijing next year
As most of us do, we leave things for the last minute.
As result, after spending three years in Beijing, visiting the southern city of Kunming, the Terracotta Army near Xi’an, the Great Wall, and the skiing resort in Yanging, the Beijing National Stadium was on my to-do list for my last semester.
However, Covid-19 happened and these plans had to be shelved.
Each of these cultural sites holds a special significance in the life of Chinese people.
For example, Beijing National Stadium, or the Bird’s Nest as it is informally called, is a stadium with a capacity of 91 000 and is said to be the world’s largest steel structure.
The most complex stadium ever constructed, the…