An engineering student's journey into the real China
By Xia Ji |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2026-03-28 15:50
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That same perspective came into focus again at the YTO Group in Luoyang, standing before China's first tractor production line—a site that once powered the nation's agricultural transformation. "I wasn't just seeing a factory," he said.
"I was seeing the engineering foundation that fed a nation."
For an engineer, he explained, every place tells two stories: the one everyone can see, and the one hidden in the structure.
Yet for all his appreciation of infrastructure — with high-speed trains that runs with such precision you can balance a coin on a table, the digital systems that let him pay, translate, and navigate with a phone — Ali insists that what truly makes traveling in China unforgettable is the people.
