I have lived and worked in Beijing for 27 years and I can tell you I have seen potholes and broken roads, as well as decrepit infrastructure, homeless people, beggars, violence, governmental dysfunction, environmental degradation, and so on. That said, it’s a wonderful place to live and work, having raised three daughters here yet it’s a place with the same challenges no different from most large cities around the world. Let’s not be utopian shills.
10 days in China and haven’t seen a single pothole or broken road