Hope for MY City

If you're from Gettysburg, or anywhere nearby Freedom Valley, you know of this Hope for the City thing going on. If not, well keep checking back for the next post.

Here is my list for MY city.

1. Haidian District (my "home" district)---population about 2.3 million

2. Fengtai District-- population about 1.4 million. Burgeoning population resulted in a new large english speaking church.

3. Changping District -- about 800,000 --considered a rural district on the outskirts of Beijing. My first time to China, I lived in this district.

4. Chaoyang District --about 3 million. The Embassy District where most of the embassies and consulates are. A very affluent district.

5. Dongcheng District -- about 1 million. This one and the next one are in the very heart of the city where most of the government buildings are.

6. Xicheng District -- about 1.3 million

7. Shijingshan District -- about 500,000. Contains a large number of Buddhist temples and monasteries. One of the more religious parts of the city as far as Buddhism/Taoism go.

8. Daxing District -- about 700,000 home to many extremely poor Chinese migrants who come to Beijing looking for work. --

9. Fangshan District. -- about a million people. Rural part of Beijing that contains many many ancient Buddhist shrines as well as a Christian church known as the Monastery of the Cross that dates back over 500 years.

10. Wudaokou --maybe 25,000 people. A small neighborhood close by me that is the heart of the University area. As such there are many more foreigners here than Chinese and a good place to talk to anyone from back home or meet people from all over the world.

The numbers are a rough estimate and if anything, I underestimated. There are still more districts I haven't counted yet, not to mention the rural counties.