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I recently spend 9 days in China with my family. The last time I visited was in 2018, before the pandemic, and I was keen to see how things had changed. There is a lot of talk on Hexbear about China but it’s pretty hard to actually get direct information, so I thought I would do an effortpost to help paint a picture of what it’s like there. Of course you can’t really see much in 9 days and my experiences are skewed by my family circumstances and the people I interacted with, so don’t take this as proof or refutation of any serious analysis. It’s just meant to give a small slice of insight. Comrades who are living in China feel free to correct me on anything.

I visited Guangzhou, a highly developed city on the south coast close to the tech hub of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, as well as two cities in Hunan province where my grandparents live, Changsha (the provincial capital) and Xiangtan, a poorer city right next to Changsha.

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The most impactful change I witnessed was