>>20201576This was over ten years ago, so I'm sure things have changed, but the people were very polite. I stayed in a decent hotel for a couple weeks and just toured around for a vacation. I liked it. I saw some of the hinterlands outside the capital, but I didn't have a ton of spending money so mainly just say Beijing's great sites, of which there are plenty for a two week vacation.
The Forbidden City was absolutely huge and I spent close to a week just going there everyday. It's amazing to think that the Forbidden City was like a Versailles -- a place for the monarch to escape from the capital and the public and be in seclusion -- yet it's so huge, even compared to Versailles.
People treated me well, and I am sure the country folk are even nicer, as they tend to be. Being white, with blond hair and blue eyes and a tall build with broad shoulders, got me some lady attention, and China has some good looking women.