Eric's Beijing Diary

Porters. The porters of Chongqing are a very important part of the history of this unique city. But they are not only part of the history, they are part of the present, and the foreseeable future.

In Beijing, local deliveries are handled primarily by bicycle cart. They're everywhere. As I mentioned earlier, there are no bicycles in Chongqing. It is really quite impressive to see these porters lugging their burdens up and down the hills as they have been doing for so many decades. The more China changes, the more it remains the same.