China is a modern country

In May, I went to Beijing and Shanghai.
It was modern. Large avenues, superb subways, a forest of skyscrapers in Pudong.
The fastest train in the world: it attained 437km/hour when I reached the airport on board of the magnet train.
But I thought it was only the big cities.

In August I went deep in the country: 250 kilometers inside.
I was driven on  4-lane highways. I saw factories and modern housing along the 250 kms.
I visited Nanjing which is still a Tier 2 city, and Kunshan, a small town.
It was not as modern as in Shanghai or Beijing, but it is much more modern than Bangalore. And in some offices, it is state of the art in terms of technology. For example, I saw the equivalent of the Cisco “Telepresence” equipment in Kunshan….