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Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:01]Okay.

[00:00:03]Hello dear friends. Good good evening.

[00:00:06]Such a beautiful beautiful evening.

[00:00:11]And uh I just came back from uh from my international travel.

[00:00:18]Came back from Huangshan, from China, from Beijing.

[00:00:22]And uh it was uh raining when I first came back.

[00:00:29]So, I have a habit. Whenever it rains, I come to this park. This is not so far from my home. This park has a creek. So, whenever it rained, I came here to check about the water.

[00:00:49]Now, I am here again. Let's take a look.

[00:00:55]I didn't uh press the the recording button.

[00:01:01]Okay. This place feels a little bit familiar, right?

[00:01:06]Yes. Every time when there is rain, I come to this place to check out because it's quite close to my home.

[00:01:18]So, I just uh um kind of a a diary, a record of my personal my personal recording of um my personal memory of this place.

[00:01:38]And uh this is a such a beautiful place in quite a an urban residential area.

[00:01:48]And the city has made an effort to keep it.

[00:01:53]Not cutting out, not uh develop into housing project.

[00:02:00]It's like uh a lung of the city, right?

[00:02:05]It produces something that is so surreal.

[00:02:10]And it's so beautiful. A lot of people come here to take some wedding pictures, event pictures, graduation pictures, prom prom pictures, and um and the grown-up pictures.

[00:02:30]The the a lot I have seen a lot of uh young ladies, girls. And they turn to a certain age, they become young lady from little girl. They take a picture here.

[00:02:45]Look at it. It's so beautiful. It makes me so happy.

[00:02:52]And this place uh a few years ago when I first came here, it was completely dry. Not a single drop of water.

[00:03:07]Not a single drop of water. And you can walk on this riverbed.

[00:03:14]And uh and the riverbed is even cracked because it was dry.

[00:03:22]And today there's no rain. Yesterday there was no rain. So, these were the rain for two or three days ago. And still it has it uh feels so good, right?

[00:03:40]Yeah. Let's keep on walking.

[00:03:45]And uh did I just came back from traveling. It is good to see something new, something different.

[00:03:54]While it is also good to see something familiar.

[00:04:00]And this place is just so beautiful. No replacement for for its beauty.

[00:04:11]Yeah.

[00:04:13]This place is just uh unbeatable.

[00:04:19]So, uh as I was traveling in China, in Beijing, I did uh a video of uh the library.

[00:04:30]So, in Beijing there is uh a big huge new library.

[00:04:38]And uh and it's new, newly made.

[00:04:43]And it's just uh so good. And uh some friends said they are interested.

[00:04:50]I will uh talk just a little bit of it.

[00:04:55]So, it was designed with uh uh a Norwegian architectural firm design firm.

[00:05:04]And the local um Beijing or central China, I think it's Beijing architectural firm and uh the two of them have uh discussed and um and finally made it inspired by the nature.

[00:05:27]Inspired by the forest. So, the design you can see on top, it's like cloud.

[00:05:36]It was um it was supposed to be um an artistic uh um illustration representation of leaves.

[00:05:50]And the pillar in the in the library is uh representation of of trees, forest.

[00:06:04]And the layered open space mountain-like uh uh structure is uh for inside. Inside this mountain are different function rooms.

[00:06:21]And um and it creates a sense of mountain. In Chinese have a saying.

[00:06:30]We have a saying that Shu shan you lu qin wei jing.

[00:06:36]Xue hai wu ya ku zuo zhou.

[00:06:40]So, the road of knowledge has no way but hard working.

[00:06:50]So, only hard working can lead to success, lead you to the right road, right route to knowledge.

[00:07:08]Xue hai wu ya ku zuo ku zuo zhou. So, the the ocean of of knowledge has no um no pathway, no way to get through except that you work hard.

[00:07:26]And only the hard working is the little boat to lead you to knowledge.

[00:07:35]And uh one friend mentioned that uh when I visit when I see your video, I cannot help but noticing that the air pollution, the air quality outside is not good.

[00:07:54]And uh she said she heard there is no rule for um for uh control.

[00:08:04]And uh wanted me to talk a little bit about it.

[00:08:10]So, of course, uh there is no comparison with uh the air quality here in America and in this area.

[00:08:23]And uh but the air quality has improved huge huge hugely.

[00:08:34]I remember more than 10 years ago, almost 20 years ago, I went back to Beijing.

[00:08:42]And it was wintertime.

[00:08:45]The the Beijing needs in winter needs heating, right? So, we have a charcoal uh coal for heating the air, for heating the heating the uh house heating system.

[00:09:02]And it was very very very dark. And you cannot even see clearly.

[00:09:10]And uh the air quality it smells charcoal the air.

[00:09:16]At that time it was I think it was uh the the worst time. And there were a lot of wumai, the fog.

[00:09:26]The misty dark dirty charcoal fogs. And it got the international attention.

[00:09:37]And then the next time uh from time to time I went back to Beijing, I saw a lot of cars. The cars in summertime, the car has uh heat ventilation.

[00:09:52]And a lot of uh shops, a supermarket, and uh department store has air conditioning, so it vents out out a lot of hot air.

[00:10:07]So, it was quite a a miserable time.

[00:10:11]And every year I see the the problem of air air pollution.

[00:10:20]Until 2008, that was the time Beijing holds Olympic.

[00:10:30]And when we went back to Beijing, the air was fresh.

[00:10:36]And that was the best time for such a long time that I haven't seen Beijing in such a good condition.

[00:10:47]It's because because of the the the Olympic game, uh Beijing has stopped a lot of industrial production, and it moved a lot of uh heavy industry outside of Beijing.

[00:11:07]And there used to be a Shijingshan Gangtiechang, um an iron smelter, a big iron production just inside Beijing, and it moved out. Now, that area was actually for winter Olympic.

[00:11:27]It became a new district to develop to develop something new. People can go to visit the the old um iron smelter, iron factory, Shijingshan Gangtiechang. When I was young, that was 50 years ago, something like 50 60 years ago, every student visit that factory. My mother was a teacher, my mother visited, my sister visited, my brother visited.

[00:12:04]It was a real production we went to see the the industrial production.

[00:12:13]So, that was the school trip, uh excursion.

[00:12:17]And now it's uh it does not have this scale large-scale production, but I heard you can visit as a nostalgia, as a as a museum to show that. Maybe next time I will go there. I haven't been there for a long time. But that industrial production is away. A lot of uh other industry also went away. So, Beijing comparatively um it is a struggle. It is always a struggle. Remember London, when London first industrialized, the London fog, and in other places, every economy has experienced that that unruled, uncontrolled period. And Beijing is making very much effort, and it's improving a lot. But just thinking about such a huge city, 10 million people, maybe 20 million people living in that area. So, that's a lot of uh uh that's a lot of activity, and cars and things.

[00:13:51]So, um it's on the way to improve, not yet reaching there, but I'm very impressed by the develop ment in in Beijing. Yes.

[00:14:09]It takes time, and uh I am patient enough to wait until the moment things change, things improve.

[00:14:25]And I have seen the improvement.

[00:14:28]There is one thing that every day whenever I go, wherever I go, even right now, right here in my pocket, there is a plastic spoon.

[00:14:43]So, in America, when you go to order food, there is always uh they give you the cutlery, silverware, plastic.

[00:14:56]So, I keep one.

[00:14:59]I kept one with me.

[00:15:02]And when it was used up, sometimes break, sometimes lost, I get another one.

[00:15:10]And this time in Beijing, I I think I lost my spoon, plastic spoon, on my flight or somewhere in the in in in some place. I just ignored it, forgot it.

[00:15:28]And then I was looking for a replacement.

[00:15:31]So, for so many days, 10 days in Beijing, 10 days in Beijing and Huangshan and other places in Beijing, all these 10 days, I did not find a single plastic spoon.

[00:15:54]I did not find a single plastic foam container.

[00:16:01]So, restaurant use real chopstick, woods chopstick.

[00:16:08]If it is a restaurant, it's not one time throw away uh the disposable. No disposable uh chopstick, no disposable um spoons.

[00:16:26]Even it is wood chopstick, it's no disposable. It's the real wood chopstick washed, and then put into the drawer for people to use, >> [snorts] >> and the ceramic spoons, and uh yeah.

[00:16:45]So, and there is no plastic bag.

[00:16:49]Maybe you can buy plastic bag, but uh uh in the shop, there is no free plastic bag.

[00:16:58]And uh and uh everything is recycled.

[00:17:04]The plastic bottle recycled, the the shipping container, shipping cardboard box recycled.

[00:17:17]So, a lot of things is happening. It takes time.

[00:17:23]Yeah.

[00:17:25]And um and I hope uh one day the whole world will be will be uniformly respecting nature, use less material, and think more about uh the planet Earth.

[00:17:53]No matter no matter we think about it because we have children, we have grandchildren, we have uh great-great-great-grandchildren, or we think or we do not have, it's just to think about uh the wellness of the planet, the place that uh give us our way of life, our place of life, our life of life.

[00:18:32]Just respect the nature, respect our surrounding, respect as uh as uh as a respect of our own dignity.

[00:18:50]Be good.

[00:18:52]That's what uh what I hope to see more.

[00:18:59]Yeah.

[00:19:03]The resource is not unlimited.

[00:19:07]There is nothing that uh unlimited.

[00:19:13]I think in America there is a spirit that heaven will give you everything, there is no end of of abundance.

[00:19:24]Uh the the the the the how how much your ambition is, how much the world will produce for you.

[00:19:35]I kind of suspicious of these kinds of thoughts.

[00:19:39]I think there is a limit.

[00:19:42]There is the limit of the natural resource. Maybe there is no limit of your ambition, of your capacity of wasting, your capacity of using things, of developing.

[00:19:59]But nature does have a limitation.

[00:20:05]In my opinion.

[00:20:07]In my opinion.

[00:20:09]Yeah.

[00:20:10]And uh it's getting dark.

[00:20:14]My time to go back.

[00:20:16]Oh, yeah. So, this one I am using a little microphone.

[00:20:22]I bought this microphone because uh I know I'm going to China and I need a new microphone.

[00:20:32]This microphone has a wire.

[00:20:36]So, I am holding it on my hand with my uh gimbal and I like it.

[00:20:44]I think it's quite uh convenient. I don't know how long it will last.

[00:20:50]My last one has served me well.

[00:20:56]Served you actually because I make video for you, for us to see.

[00:21:04]Has it served for maybe 10 years? 5 6 7 8 9 10 years?

[00:21:14]And uh until it uh finally give up.

[00:21:19]And now I want to I hope this one can last equally long.

[00:21:27]At least last sometime so that we can listen.

[00:21:34]And um this is not professional quality.

[00:21:38]This is not a big uh big um big scale, big brand kind of uh um um sound quality, audio quality, but uh sufficient for me, I think.

[00:22:01]Look at it. So beautiful.

[00:22:03]Use less, enjoy more.

[00:22:08]If we use less, we will have chance to enjoy more.

[00:22:14]Right? We have less material, we will see the surrounding more.

[00:22:23]We have uh we have uh less burden with us, we will have more attention to the surrounding.

[00:22:35]Right?

[00:22:37]Thank you very very much.

[00:22:42]Thank you very very very much.

[00:22:47]I love you. I really do.

[00:22:51]Do do do do do do do.

[00:22:53]Goo goo goo bye-bye.