Xinhua| By: Xu Xingtang & Yang Shilong | October 07, 2017:
Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Beijing … wherever Avery Goldstein went in China, he saw the trademark orange and yellow bicycles of Mobike and Ofo, the Asian power’s top two bike-sharing heavyweights.
“This is something a year ago I didn’t see and all of a sudden … they are everywhere. How can this happen in a year?”
Goldstein, director of Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
The professor of Global Politics and International Relations also found Mobike and Ofo bikes are much more convenient to use than those in New York City as users can unlock an Ofo or Mobike off the street using just a smartphone and electronic wallet and ride them to their destination.
Goldstein is not alone in experiencing the massive economic development and social progress at the incredible China Speed.
Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates and also a close watcher of China, said that every time he goes to Beijing, he is impressed.
“I keep saying Xin Hua (New China). It’s that new things are happening, fresh things are happening there all the time,” Hormats said. “So I love going, and you cannot understand China unless you go there. You can read, but you got to go there and talk to people.”
The level of innovation in China has grown very rapidly, he noted. “China is doing well because it’s very innovative and very hard working, and very competitive.”
“If you really want to know China, you have to look at China’s internal strength … Don’t make the mistake of thinking China is not a dynamic internal economy, because it is,” Hormats said.
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