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Q: If you could change one aspect of your city, what would it be?
I live in Shenzhen, next to the Dameisha beach. Clean sea water would be great.
Also, giving Shenzhen a soul would be nice. Most soulless city I've ever lived in.
Oh, also, not having public transportation be so ineffective. Gdi, too many things I'd change.
The biggest one is that I'd warm it up ten degrees! Thank God for spring and bring on summer 
For me in Shanghai, it would be more children playgrounds where children can play for free.
Lishui is a nice city. The skies are always blue (unless it's raining), lots of greenery, good public transportation. I guess the only thing I'd want to change are normal things, like more access to western toilets and less spitting.
I really enjoy living in Changsha. It is big enough to have lots of different kinds of resturants and if one perfers, a pretty good night life. Lots of parks, a great river walk along the Xiang Jiang, and the public transportation is widespread.
However, I sure would like to see something other than the "white sky," and some days the haze is horrible. I don't know if it blows in from other regions, but clean air would sure be nice.
Shenzhen....less cars on the road (worst traffic in the world next to BJ) and less people in the city. There is just way too many people living here....I get claustrophobic sometimes immersed in a giant crowd of people. It never ends and I can never escape them.
Urumqi - Getting rid of all the ugly and incredibly non-descript 1960s era 小区s and replacing them with architecturally inspired buildings with more colour than brown and grey... And some more parks would be nice
(Although in saying that the south part of the city does not fit the above mentioned monoboring pattern)
MissA:
I'm in Urumqi, too and yes, the Stalinist chic is depressing. I love the area around the bazaar. It makes such a nice change from the rest of the city, it feels like entering a whole new place in a ten minute bus ride :)
Nanning, I would like to see a greater variety of foreign restaurants. I do miss the ability to choose French, Italian, Indian, Mexican etc. Although there are plenty of good restaurants here more variety would be great.
Hefei: It would have to be the cho tofu sellers on the streets. Man, if that smell hits you unaware, it gives your nostrils a floggin.
I would say roadside cleanup service like they have prisoners doing in the states. If they can get someone to clean up the roadside pollution it would be more enjoyable to walk in the city..
thedude:
Obviously you know that they have people do this in first tier cities...usually old people. Prisoners here never see the light of day, at least if they are not executed.
kchur:
In Hangzhou the street cleaning trucks play midis of happy birthday. It makes me feel so wonderful.
Hmmm..that there was a greater open-mindedness to foreign people..less xenophobia. That would be beautiful.
Although it has been a bit better this summer in Suzhou, it would definitely be the air quality. I so need blue skies above me.
Less people and less pollution (air/water/streets). Today I look outside my window and at the top of the sky its nice and blue but then you look on the horizion and you see a huge thick cloud of smog....really sad to see and certainly not good for ones health.
Magic Math and reduce population by 50% ! Wow,, talk about the Asiatic Hordes ! The Metro is an accident waiting to happen. If something caused a panic in there on a Sunday, 100's likely be trampled to death. Management knows what I am talking about, because they will actually close some stations sometimes. I mean they quit allowing people to enter,,, they still let people out, lol...
AdamE:
Yup I've seen this quite a few times during rush hour where I can't get onto the subway cause they've closed it off. Typically if there's any sort of minor delay they will shut a station down for awhile because the amount of people piling up while waiting would pose a big safety risk.
Few months back I had to sit around and wait for an hour for them to re-open the entrance to a subway station....man when they opened it the mad dash towards the subway was INSANE....im suprised no one got hurt.
I live in Dalian, and the worst thing I can think of here is the traffic congestion. Near the train station or around the busier shopping areas during rush hour you will move about a car's length every 5 minutes.
I live in a small town, so I wish the norm was a 5 day work week instead of 6 days.
In Nanning they've GOT to do something about rush hour traffic! They are building a subway but it will be very small and I'm not sure how effective.
At the moment I classify the evening rush hour into two stages:
5pm - 6pm crazy hour, akin to central London rush hour only without the rules.
6pm - 7pm - mass suicide insanity hour! (if you're not already on a bus they will all be full) and you are often quicker walking!
