china

As the train pulled up to the station in Xin He, I marveled at the changes that a couple of years had wrought in Xin Jiang. It was the summer of 1999 and I had just graduated from High School. I was on a trip with my mother to Xin Jiang, the northwestern-est province in China, to visit friends and family. Since my trip to Xin Jiang in 1995, so much had changed and some areas were …

…technology there. I grew up with stories about how primitive living conditions were there, but within the span of a quarter of a century it has been brought up to the higher city standards of the rest of China. I have seen the modernization of Xin Jiang personally, and I’m sure that the next time I go there, I will be pleasantly surprised again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Chen, Jack, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York, 1977