We, to be honest, just love Beijing

Editor’s note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up, and huge changes have been made in Beijing, capital of China, over the past 40 years. We have invited 40 foreign experts to participate in a series of interviews named “New Era, New Insight” jointly hosted by GMW.cn(The official website of Guangming Daily) and the Information Office of Beijing Municipality and share their “Beijing Stories”. The following is a part of the interview with the General Manager of Grand Mecure Beijing Central Dennis Oldfield.

We, to be honest, just love Beijing

Hi, I’m Dennis Oldfield, I’m from Australia.

I’m the general manager of Grand Mecure Beijing Central in the Xidan District.

I’ve been live in Beijing since 2008 with my family.

We, to be honest, just love Beijing

Since we’ve been here, we’ve been able to experience many wonderful things that only residents could experience, including getting in some of the back streets, not only some of the major cultural sites but some of the small areas that people often don’t have opportunity to see.

We’ve done that through probably the most popular form of transport here in Beijing which is on bicycle

And then one of my most favorite things to do is at the night time riding from my hotel we will take bicycles with friends, who were visiting, go to somewhere like Houhai and have dinner and then come back, and ride around Tiananmen Square at night time.

If you haven’t done that I can really recommend it to you, riding around Tiananmen Square with night lights, it’s just absolutely gorgeous.

And it’s one way being able to really feel what the city is all about.

The very first time I came to Beijing, it actually fact was the golden week in 1991.

Beijing in those days has very few international hotels

Since that time of course we have hundreds of international hotels with brands ranging from the most basic and economic international brand all the way to some of the greatest five star luxury hotels we have in China.

[ Editor: zyq ]
 

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