Chiese sign, largely speaking, it is the open door and windows to show the Chinese fantastic culture.
One of the lasting legacies of the Olympics is the number of (Chinglish free) bilingual signs that now appear throughout the city. While not quite Hong Kong, it’s now a lot easier for people who can’t read Chinese characters to do everything from take a bus, order a meal, find a public toilet, navigate the city’s streets and delve into the capital’s imperial past. Just because the Games are over doesn’t mean that Beijing has given up on becoming an international city, the city announced that 1,100 large bilingual street signs had been installed in visible locations within the Third Ring Road to help drivers navigate the city’s hutongs. Although we hate dodging cars scraping along narrow lanes as much as the next Beijinger (when will they make NLGX a car-free zone?), we’re in favor of the general trend of making Beijing streets more accessible to the non-Chinese literate.
