The November issue of That's Beijing is out now – paper-and-ink-form citywide, digital pdf form right here or in your browser here. Editor-in-Chief Oscar Holland introduces the magazine:
It is all too easy to become trapped in the Beijing bubble, or, conversely, to think that you must travel deep into China to find intrigue. You don’t. As such, it has become a yearly tradition at That’s to dedicate an autumn issue to somewhere just beyond the city limits.
Two years ago, we traced the route of the proposed Seventh Ring Road, profiling the villages and commuter cities that will be dragged into Beijing’s orbit. Then, in 2015, we explored the huge changes taking place in rapidly urbanizing Tongzhou (that counts as ‘outside the city,’ right?). We return to Hebei once again this year, as we visit nearby Baoding.
Our neighbor to the southwest carries an uncomfortable reputation. Best known outside China as the country’s most-polluted city, there is plenty to dislike about Baoding. But as is often the case, one finds cause for optimism in unlikely places: The city’s air quality has improved dramatically in the last two years (which in turn improves ours here in Beijing) and, ironically, the alternative energy sector is booming. From page 42, you can read our account from the heart of Hebei’s industrial belt.
Elsewhere in the magazine:
Dominique Wong speaks to a photographer profiling China’s ‘left-behind’ children (page 10);
Andrew Chin tells us about one of China’s hottest indie bands, Future Orients (page 32);
Jonty Dixon chats with Academy Award-winner Tim Robbins (page 36);
Zhang Mei, founder of WildChina, takes us on a culinary journey through Yunnan (page 54);
And finally, Noelle Mateer previews this month’s TechCrunch Beijing (page 39) before bringing you her characteristically judicious round-up of the latest food and drink openings (from page 58).
Happy reading.
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