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Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt embark on two epic car journeys across China, navigating congested cities and winding mountain roads to explore how the country's economic growth, symbolised by its bo...oming car industry, is affecting people's lives. In this programme Anita takes the high road through the rich industrialised cities of the east, driving a Great Wall Haval -the best-selling 4x4 in China. This is the land of billionaires with fleets of super cars; of imitation French chateaux and high-tech solar hotels. She cruises Beijing with the moneyed young members of the China Supercar club and joins a convoy of 'self-drive' holiday makers on a trip to sacred Mount Tai. Meanwhile Justin drives a "bread van" the loaf-shaped workhorse of the countryside, through China's poor rural hinterland, and discovers that here donkeys are often more common than cars. He visits the "ghost city" of Ordos and puts his bread van through its paces on China's second biggest racing track. He joins the Red Tourism trail in Yan'an, the cradle of Mao's Communist Revolution, and finds himself in the firing line during a dramatic civil war battle reenactment.
Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt embark on two epic car journeys across China, navigating congested cities and winding mountain roads to explore how the country's economic growth, symbolised by its bo...oming car industry, is affecting people's lives. In this programme Anita takes the high road through the rich industrialised cities of the east, driving a Great Wall Haval -the best-selling 4x4 in China. This is the land of billionaires with fleets of super cars; of imitation French chateaux and high-tech solar hotels. She cruises Beijing with the moneyed young members of the China Supercar club and joins a convoy of 'self-drive' holiday makers on a trip to sacred Mount Tai. Meanwhile Justin drives a "bread van" the loaf-shaped workhorse of the countryside, through China's poor rural hinterland, and discovers that here donkeys are often more common than cars. He visits the "ghost city" of Ordos and puts his bread van through its paces on China's second biggest racing track. He joins the Red Tourism trail in Yan'an, the cradle of Mao's Communist Revolution, and finds himself in the firing line during a dramatic civil war battle reenactment.
| Series: | China on four wheels |
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| Episode | 1 |
| First transmission date: | 09-09-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC2 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:54 |
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| Producer: | Dominic Ozanne |
| Presenters: | Anita Rani; Justin Rowlatt |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wrgyp OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-china-on-four-wheels |
| Master spool number: | BOU051010 |
| Production number: | FKAY891D |
| Videofinder number: | 83033 |
| Available to public: | no |
