A recent survey taken by 4,656 people revealed that while Sichuan dwellers have a lot of pride for their province, the most beloved city in China is Beijing. The survey asked respondents to name their favorite province, city and district in China. 82.2% of those from Sichuan said that Sichuan was their favorite province. 76.6% of respondents from Beijing named Beijing as their favorite, and 74.5% from Shanghai said that Shanghai was their favorite. Anhui and Yunnan received the lowest scores: less than one percent of respondents from the provinces named it as their favorite. 13.6% of survey respondents said that the best province overall is Beijing, 9.3% said Guangdong was the best and 6.9% named Shanghai as their overall favorite.
Respondents said that Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong contribute the most to China's economy. 31.2% thought Beijing contributes the most, 14% said Shanghai contributes the most, and 12.5% responded that Guangdong contributes the most. In terms of tourism, 58.6% of respondents would not recommend their own province as a destination for foreign visitors. 22.3% said that travelers were better off heading to Beijing. Other travel suggestions for foreigners were Shanghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangdong.
16.8% of respondents said that in their next life, they wanted to come back as a Beijing resident, and 21.6% said that if they could chose any dialect to speak it would be the Beijing dialect.
Source: inews.qq.com
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Well I live in China and it's far from being my favorite country.
Mar 27, 2015 13:29 Report Abuse
Because in spite of having a lot of natural beauty, it is quite underdeveloped. And obviously idiots majority Chinese think that the Westerners will be more impressed by high rise look-alike apartments and polluted skies. Aka, their idea of "prosperity ". Dont get me wrong, i like living in Shanghai (the only livable city in this communist state) but do i think it's beautiful?? Hell no. My friends and relatives from Europe asked me whether its worth visiting. I almost begged them NOT to come. Unless you want to head to more rural areas, the not-so-great "alright" Wall of China or see pandas, it's really pointless to come to China. How sad considering China is almost 3x the size of the EU !!!! Yet it has very little to offer to the average tourist.
Mar 27, 2015 10:44 Report Abuse
Looks to me the survey was completed mostly by locals. Quite a few locals told me they didn't like touring Yunnan anymore. I suspect that has to do with tourism transforming many of the Yunnan locals into unscrupulous 'people' the way it did to other parts of china. Another possibility is as you mention Yunnan, known for its natural beauty, USED TO (for decades) be one of the favourites for foreign tourists, meaning the locals were exposed to civilised tourists en masse. They knew how civilised people behave. These days when mainlanders from other parts of china has the money to tour the place the same Yunnan locals view them with scorn, naturally.
Mar 27, 2015 14:21 Report Abuse
4,500 out of 1,3 billion people. I would hardly call the survey representative. It was probably done in Beijing too.
Mar 27, 2015 04:41 Report Abuse
Here we go again! Another one of these "how beautiful China is" articles. Compared to the rest of the world, China is a wasteland and a dump. It's not beautiful and it never will be. And a blue sky like the one in the picture doesn't exist in China.
Mar 26, 2015 20:49 Report Abuse
Wait....sky is supposed to be blue? Waaaaaat???. I retort.... Actually shanghai has had a pretty low levels of pollution these past 5 days. Unprecented in this pollution dump.
Mar 27, 2015 10:36 Report Abuse
Wow guest14209148, that's very rude language for a wumao. You should present your propaganda in a less offensive way. Beijing has blue skies 2-3 days a week. And I'm the queen of England.
Mar 27, 2015 16:37 Report Abuse
No, it doesn't. I wasted 14 months of life in that toxic city filled with toxic people. Beijing has an ok sky during October and March/April. It is never beautiful.
Mar 29, 2015 15:48 Report Abuse
What country has the biggest number of face seeking, self-aggrandizing liars?
Mar 26, 2015 18:57 Report Abuse
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