国外热议：你实际去过中国之后，对中国的看法有改变吗？

Torben Zenth
Yes indeed. I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I consider myself to have a broad end educated view of the world.
确实如此。我住在丹麦哥本哈根，我认为自己拥有开阔且受过良好教育的世界观。

My experience after a 3 week trip to Shanghai, Hefei and Beijing was that what I have been told about China in western media and education is a very very limited and biased view.
我在上海、合肥和北京进行了为期三周的旅行后，得到的体验是：西方媒体和教育中关于中国的描述是非常非常片面和有偏见的。

Any westener with a curious and open mind will have a mind-blowing experience in China, and the possibility to get a much more elaborated understanding of Chinese and Asian culture. I highly recommend that.
任何一个抱有好奇和开放心态的西方人都会在中国获得大开眼界的体验，并有机会更详尽地了解中国和亚洲文化。我强烈推荐。

China is all in all a very safe and friendly country. I completely changed my mind.
总而言之，中国是一个非常安全、友好的国家。我彻底改变了看法。

Ed Nelson
I completely agree. I first visited 25 years ago and have visited several times since 2015 to experience the changes and visit friends. China is a Magical place to visit. You need more than a week to experience a little of China which is why I return to learn more.
我完全同意。我25年前首次到访，自2015年以来又多次访问，以体验其变化并看望朋友。中国是一个神奇的地方。你需要不止一周的时间才能体验一点点中国，这就是为什么我不断会去了解更多。

Jon.L
7 years later, what do you think?
七年过去了，你现在怎么看？

Paul Mitchell
Same here. I completely lost my respect for the BBC after one day in Beijing, and for the idea that what we are fed in the news in the West is fact, and that the media in China is so restricted no one knows what’s going on.
我也是。在北京待了一天，我就对BBC彻底失去了敬意，也不再相信西方新闻灌输给我们的就是事实，或者认为中国媒体限制如此之多以至于没人知道发生了什么。

It is not without its problems, but they are being addressed. One thing it is though is very very safe compared to the west. In 2011 Hong Kong had the lowest murder rate in the world, and I feel equally safe in China, Singapore and Hong Kong.
中国并非没有问题，但问题正在被解决。然而，与西方相比，有一件事是肯定的，那就是中国非常非常安全。2011年香港（特区）的谋杀率是世界最低的，我在中国、新加坡和香港（特区）感到同样安全。

Remember London has its pea souper fog in the 1950s, Los Angeles has it’s smog in the 1970s, now China is cleaning up its act with more wind turbines in existence and more being installed than any other country in the world, more electric buses than any other country, with the highest rate being in Shenzhen. It’s trains travel at 250kph between cities and a cup of water on the window sill doesn’t even have ripples in it.
记得伦敦在1950年代有严重的浓雾，洛杉矶在1970年代有烟雾问题，现在中国正在大力改善环境，其现有的和正在安装的风力涡轮机比世界上任何国家都多，电动公交车也比任何国家都多，深圳的电动公交比例最高。城市间的列车以250公里/小时的速度行驶，放在窗台上的水杯甚至不会泛起涟漪。

Do not believe western media reports; they all know to report something distasteful about China and rarely report the good; it’s what they have always done.
不要相信西方媒体的报道；他们都清楚要报道一些关于中国的令人不快的消息，却很少报道好的方面；他们一向如此。

Gajendra Patel
I agree 100%. I recently visited China for 14 days and will plan soon for next trip. I am impressed and people are absolutely beautiful and friendly, I have pictures to prove.
我100%同意。我最近在中国访问了14天，并且很快就在计划下一次旅行。印象很深刻，人们绝对美丽又友善，我有照片为证。

葱 刘
China welcomes you to visit. There are many interesting places and delicious food in China. If you have the chance, you can come to Guangzhou to visit. Here you can find the best cuisine in China - Cantonese cuisine, which is very delicious.
中国欢迎您来访问。中国有很多有趣的地方和美味的食物。如果有机会，可以来广州看看。在这里你可以找到中国最好的菜系——粤菜，非常美味。

Otto Willum Nielsen
I’m also from Copenhagen, and came to China in 1998, and at that time China was more like what you expected about China, even so it was safe, and people friendlily, but the first three years, ( I had a five year contract ) I could not stop complaining about the Chinese called them all kind of names, anyhow when my contract expired I renewed for another five years, and I stopped somehow complaining, but still I thought Europe was the right place, so after my other 5 years was up I was happy to go leave China behind I though 10 years that is long time, I can not wait to get back to Denmark, so me and my then 7 years old Chinese born daughter went to Copenhagen with happy smile, I got job and happy, but then I started to notice many things about the Danes ( Im one my self ) They like to destroy everything which is nice, graffiti vandalism, chewing gum everywhere, all bus stops vandalized and never cleaned, the Danes like to sit in the buses or trains with their feet on the seats, I was in Mcdonalds Verterbro in a queue and a guy went in front of three people before me, the person in front said very politely, hey we are here first, I think you need to back in the queue, then the guy jumping the queue hit the other guy very hard in his face, the other guy go up and said something I did not her, buy the queue jumper got his knife out, we left without buying, I saw also in the train S-Toget a ticket control asking for tickets and some young guys of other origin than Danish, showed him a knife, there was also someone getting shoot in the city, and Friday night could not take the train, to dangerous so many drunks.. In the year I spend in Denmark with my daughter, we started to miss China, and one day my daughter asked “ Daddy can we not go back to China?” I said yes sure, and we left back to China, where we have been ever since and happy and safe. China is very safe even for young girls can go out by them self, Shenzhen is very clean city well organized, even the bus stops they clean, Shenzhen metro is really clean, and it works always, I have never had problems with delay trains, or the shentong card not working, in Denmark always signal problems and late trains, no let me stay her in China to the end, I see China better and better everyday and Europe going down slowly, but surely.

我也来自哥本哈根，1998年来到中国，那时中国更符合你们想象中的中国，即便如此它也很安全，人们很友善，但是头三年（我签了五年合同）我忍不住抱怨中国人，用各种难听的话称呼他们。然而，当我的合同到期后，我又续签了五年，不知怎的我停止了抱怨，但我仍然认为欧洲才是对的地方。所以又过了5年后，我很高兴能把中国抛在身后。我想10年够长了，我迫不及待想回丹麦。于是我和我当时7岁、在中国出生的女儿带着开心的笑容去了哥本哈根。我找到了工作，很开心。但随后我开始注意到许多关于丹麦人（我自己就是丹麦人）的事情。他们喜欢破坏美好的东西，涂鸦破坏公物，口香糖到处乱粘，所有公交站都被破坏且从不清理。丹麦人喜欢坐公交或火车时把脚放在座位上。

我在韦斯特布罗的麦当劳排队，一个家伙插队到我前面三个人前面，前面的人非常礼貌地说，嘿，我们先来的，我想你需要到后面排队。然后那个插队者狠狠打了对方的脸，对方站起来说了句我没听清的话，但插队者拔出了刀，我们没买就离开了。我还在市郊铁路S-Toget上看到检票员查票，几个非丹麦裔的年轻人向他亮出了刀。城里也有人被枪击。周五晚上没法坐火车，太危险了，太多醉汉了……我和女儿在丹麦度过的那一年，我们开始想念中国。

有一天我女儿问：“爸爸，我们不能回中国吗？”我说当然可以。于是我们离开，回到了中国，从此一直住在这里，开心又安全。中国非常安全，即便是年轻女孩也可以自己出门。深圳是一个非常干净、井然有序的城市，连公交站都有人清洁。深圳地铁真的很干净，而且总是正常运行。我从未遇到过火车晚点或深圳通卡不能用的问题。在丹麦总是有信号问题和火车晚点。不，让我留在中国直到最后吧。我每天都看到中国越来越好，而欧洲在缓慢但确实地走下坡路。

Bruce jin
Hey, man , i work now in shenzhen , and had a business trip in Denmark last year, Cosumption level is extremely high…. can meet and have beer when free , haha i am in nanshan
嘿，兄弟，我现在在深圳工作，去年去丹麦出差过，消费水平极高……有空可以见面喝啤酒，哈哈，我在南山。

Mike James
Well put. I have lived in China for over 10 years now and everything you have said is true and accurate. Mike James.(Australian)
说得好。我已经在中国生活了十多年，你说的一切都是真实准确的。迈克·詹姆斯（澳大利亚人）。

Connie Olsen
I completely agree! I was astounded at the architectural sophistication and beauty of modern Shanghai, the friendliness of the Chinese people, and the commitment to renewable energy visible in the fields of wind farms between Beijing and Tianjin. A most impressive country, well worth the visit.
我完全同意！现代上海建筑的精致与美丽、中国人民的友善，以及在北京和天津之间田野上可见的风力发电场对可再生能源的投入，都令我惊叹。这是一个令人印象极其深刻的国家，非常值得一游。

Dennis Lacerna
I agree with you completely. I visited Shanghai for the first time ever last August and it completely changed my view of the country. The way it’s portrayed in western media and movies is so different from what it actually is; a very modern and organized mega city.
我完全同意你的看法。去年八月我第一次访问上海，它彻底改变了我对这个国家的看法。西方媒体和电影中描绘的上海与其实际情况是如此不同；它是一座非常现代化且井然有序的超级都市。

Sujit Chatterjee
I was s frequent visitor to China in recent past for academic purpose. What I gathered is that Chinese cities are possibly the safest to move around under the sun. I once asked a Chinese girl student in Nanjing university if she is nt scared of returning to their univ. hostel around 2 am in the morning. She just could nt follow my question. May be it was more difficult to grasp than what I was teaching them in physics classes.
最近我常因学术目的访问中国。我的体会是，中国的城市可能是世界上最安全的。我曾经问过南京大学的一个中国女学生，她是否害怕在凌晨两点左右返回大学宿舍。她完全没明白我的问题。也许这个问题比我教他们的物理课内容更难理解。

Calv Bread
Americans are generally wrapped in a little bubble, sadly trapped by themselves and tend to believe they are breathing the fresher air.
美国人通常被包裹在一个小泡泡里，可悲地自我困囿，并且倾向于相信他们呼吸着更清新的空气。

Aalto Li
It’s true that China is safe and friendly because our traditional culture is consist of peace and love. Welcome more and more foreign friends could travel to China for few days at least and you will know a real China different from your old imagination.
中国确实安全友好，因为我们的传统文化由和平与友爱构成。欢迎越来越多的外国朋友至少能来中国旅行几天，你会认识一个与你旧有想象不同的真实中国。

Lulut Yuni Susanti
Yes I changed my mind about China. Really different from what I read on the media.
是的，我改变了对中国的看法。与我在媒体上读到的完全不同。

I visited Beijing on July 2019 for a business trip. As a Muslim woman that wear scarve, I prepared myself that people may treated me differently when I'm going to non-Muslim countries, or the country that I heard have Islamophobia.
我于2019年7月因商务旅行访问北京。作为一名戴头巾的穆斯林女性，我做好了心理准备，去非穆斯林国家或我听说有伊斯兰恐惧症的国家时，人们可能会不同对待我。

And when I finally arrived there, surprisingly, everyone I met is very nice to me. They don't even give me too much attention so I'm very comfortable being there.
而当我终于抵达那里时，令人惊讶的是，我遇到的每个人都对我非常友好。他们甚至不会对我过多关注，这让我在那里感到非常自在。

When I'm in visa section at the airport, the conversation between me and the officer going well. He even smile at me, wow. He have the right to not be that nice because it's visa section right, and I'm woman with scave, etc. And it's normal to not treated me nicely, considering what I read on the media and all that stereotype about the relation between Chinese people and the Muslim I heard.
在机场签证处，我和官员的对话进行得很顺利。他甚至对我微笑了，哇。他本可以不那么友善的，因为那是签证处，对吧，而且我是个戴头巾的女人等等。考虑到我在媒体上读到和听到的所有关于中国人与穆斯林关系的刻板印象，不被友好对待才是正常的。

I'm really surprised too, when do the formal meeting with the officer of the government. They prepared the corner nice place to do afternoon pray and they prepared halal food too. All of that is not our request, they offering it first. And we are very happy about that.
我也真的感到惊讶，在与政府官员进行正式会议时。他们准备了一个不错的角落让我们做下午祷告，还准备了清真食品。所有这些都不是我们要求的，是他们主动提供的。我们对此非常高兴。

That just the two example from so many stories from my 6 days trip in China. All of that experience made me changed my mind completely about China.
这只是我中国六天之旅众多故事中的两个例子。所有这些经历让我彻底改变了对中国的看法。

Haz Umar
I’m a Muslim with headscarf too. I visited China in 2019 with my family and we had a pleasant experienced there too. Ya, Chinese in China are not obsessed with headscarves in a matter of fact the local Hui Chinese had headscarves with lots of blx-blx and beads, It showed that they have no reason to hide their headscarves. In Beijing Niujie mosque we even saw the locals having religious lesson in the mosque.

我也是一名戴头巾的穆斯林。2019年我和家人一起访问了中国，我们在那里也有愉快的经历。是的，实际上中国的中国人并不对头巾着迷，当地回族中国人的头巾上有许多亮片和珠子，这表明她们没有理由隐藏自己的头巾。在北京牛街礼拜寺，我们甚至看到当地人在里面上宗教课。

Jay
Oh my god, how dare the Chinese treat Muslim people with such kindness! You should complain to the UN of such total disregard for human rights! :)
天啊，中国人怎么敢对穆斯林如此友善！你应该向联合国投诉这种完全不尊重人权的行为！ :)

Now do you see the fake news being peddled by the west and how dangerous it is? By constantly painting China in such negativity it subconsciously reduce the desire of people actually visiting the country to see the truth and thus people will never find out everything said is a big fat lie.
现在你看到西方兜售的假新闻及其危害性了吧？通过不断以如此负面的方式描绘中国，它在潜意识里降低了人们真正去这个国家看看真相的欲望，从而使人们永远不会发现所说的一切都是弥天大谎。

Anyway, glad you enjoyed your trip. Hopefully you can visit again and see the many beautiful mosques there all over the country!
无论如何，很高兴你喜欢你的旅行。希望你能再次来访，看看遍布全国的许多美丽清真寺！

Haz Umar
As a Muslim I found the same media and government of countries that had slandered and continue to slander Muslims are now doing the same to the Chinese. Suddenly they are so concern of not only Muslims but Chinese Muslims. We should not give them too much credit they lie all the time. Treat them like the liars that they are as such whatever they say take it with pinch of salt, do our own research if we are interested to know more.
作为一名穆斯林，我发现那些曾经诽谤并继续诽谤穆斯林的国家的媒体和政府，现在正对中国做同样的事。突然间，他们不仅关心穆斯林，还关心中国穆斯林了。我们不应太相信他们，他们一直在撒谎。把他们当作骗子对待，因此无论他们说什么都持保留态度，如果我们有兴趣了解更多，就自己去做研究。

Sally Hayes
Yes, I did.
是的，我改变了。

I had learned a little about Chinese history (I’m Australian), and I had a close friend at work who was from Shanghai, but being there…
我曾学过一点中国历史（我是澳大利亚人），工作中也有一位来自上海的密友，但是身临其境……

I felt like I was part of making history just be setting foot on the land. I could feel its age, something I didn’t get in Europe, even in Greece or Rome.
我觉得自己踏上那片土地就成了创造历史的一部分。我能感受到它的古老，这是我在欧洲，甚至在希腊或罗马都未曾感受到的。

I’ve been back 3 times now, once to stay and work, a single parent with two small kids - yes, absolutely crazy, and not something I’d necessarily recommend - but now China is in my blood. It’s not just a foreign country - it’s an alien planet. Everything just works so differently, and getting around is extremely challenging - like the day I wanted to catch the train half an hour along the track, and it took most of the day, and trying to catch a plane to discover that our flight was an ex-Aeroflot (yes, I’ve been to Russia, and Aeroflot was scary before the Russians decided to discard them) departing from a military base on the other side of town with no food supplies…
我现在已经回去了三次，有一次是去居住和工作，作为一个带着两个小孩的单亲家长——是的，绝对疯狂，也不是我一定会推荐的事——但现在中国已融入我的血液。它不仅仅是一个外国——它像一个外星世界。一切运作方式都如此不同，出行极具挑战性——就像有一次我想坐半小时车程的火车，结果花了几乎一整天；还有一次试图赶飞机，结果发现我们的航班是前俄航的飞机（是的，我去过俄罗斯，在俄罗斯人决定淘汰它们之前，俄航的飞机很吓人）从城市另一边的军用机场起飞，而且没有食物供应……

Besides being full of friendly, wonderful people, it is the most extraordinary and amazing place. The geography is beyond descxtion - I’ve only seen a little myself, but a lot of google searching for a story has shown some of the breadth of the country - the country is so vast, so loaded with history and time…
除了充满友善、美好的人们之外，它也是一个最非凡、最神奇的地方。其地理景观难以用语言描述——我自己只见过一点点，但为写故事做了大量谷歌搜索，看到了这个国家的一些广度——这个国家如此辽阔，承载着如此厚重的历史与时光……

Today I crane to listen to anyone speaking Chinese (especially Mandarin) because the sound of the language gives me thrills, even though I didn’t manage to get much past greetings. I love the written language (which I already knew a bit of from Japanese). The buildings and the geography always leave me breathless. The country is just so vast, crosses so many different cultures and terrains, the history as fascinating as anywhere on the globe - so much of what we take for granted was invented in China long before in the west, and the people I met - in Suzhou, an hour west of Shanghai - were so friendly and warm and wonderful…
如今我伸长耳朵去听任何说中文（尤其是普通话）的人，因为那种语言的声音让我激动不已，尽管我除了问候语外没学会多少。我热爱书面文字（我已从日文中略知一二）。那里的建筑和地理总是让我屏息。这个国家是如此广袤，跨越了如此多不同的文化和地形，其历史与地球上任何地方一样引人入胜——太多我们认为理所当然的东西在中国发明，远早于西方。而我遇到的人们——在上海以西一小时的苏州——是那么友善、热情和美好……

I had learned a bit of 20th century Chinese history at school, but the country is just so, so much more than that. Go there with an open mind, let go of western values like time, privacy, etc, and be amazed.
我在学校学过一点20世纪的中国历史，但这个国家远远、远远不止于此。带着开放的心态去那里，放下时间、隐私等西方价值观，然后为之惊叹吧。