CCTV Building

CBD

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October 7th 2009
Hello everybody! Today, we went for a wander around the CBD today, around where Kate works. It's pretty cool, a few skyscrapers are going up now, one that is so huge it's incredible, and of course, the rather ridiculous CCTV Building. If you look at it from the right angle there's a building you can see through it that was built at about the same time, but apparently, when they were celebrati ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more