来自高港的故事
What is the best of way of seeing interior China for a foreigner who doesn’t speak Chinese?
None, except waiting for someone to show you around.
对于不会中文的外国人来说，如何最方便观察中国内地？
当然是等着别人带你参观了
We have been living here in Gaogang for the past two years during this assignment. We have lived here in this very town on two other occasions, each stretching over a year. So, we are very familiar with the town and have seen it grow up from a small township to a big city within the span of five years, and it is growing at a very rapid pace. Beautifully laid, aesthetically landscaped and well planned city with Boulevards, Malls, Parks and New Colonies coming up all around, but frankly speaking this is the story of every new city in China.
这次外派，我们在高港生活了2年
在这个镇上两个地方呆过，各呆了一年。
所以，我们对这个镇很熟悉，亲眼目睹其在5年内，从一个小镇发展成一座大城市，且发展速度仍然非常快速。
规划设计颇具美学的城市，宽阔的大马路，繁华的购物中心，郁郁葱葱的公园，以及到处拔地而起的新住宅区。
不过，坦白说，中国每一座新城都在上演同样的故事。
When I came here, my blogger friends would tell me that China has only Beiing and Shanghai that they have made to showcase to the world, but what I saw didn't only amaze me, it also made me think, how unaware the world was of the progress that China has made in the last decade and I decided to update their knowledge by unprejudiced reporting through my blogs.
初来乍到时，博友告诉我说，中国只有北京和上海这些向世界展示的样板城市，然而我们亲眼目睹后让我惊讶不已，同时也让我陷入思索，即这个世界对中国过去10年取得的进步是多么缺乏认识。为此，我决定通过写文章来消除他们对中国的偏见报道。
Walkways and Cycle tracks- alongside All Roads
人行道和自行车道，公路边都有这样的设置
I am not a paid professional journalist who has sold his conscience for money. I have also not sworn my allegiance to Chinese media whose reporting seems to be more out of compulsion than voluntary. I am just a freelancer, writing out of love for writing and I write what my hearts directs me to, and I would never compromise it for money or fear of consequences. If I am faced with such a situation, I would choose to write on a subject that doesn't embroil me in to a controversy rather than choosing to be a paid singer, because love is not a commodity that can be traded.
我不是为了钱而出卖良知的专业记者。
我也没有向中国媒体宣誓效忠，后者的报道似乎更多是出于被迫，而不是志愿。
我只是一位自由写手，出于对写作的热爱而笔耕不辍，心里怎么想就怎么写。、
我决对不会为了钱而妥协，也不会害怕后果而停笔。
爱并非是可以交易的商品。
With in a span of five years, huge multi storied colonies have come up where there used to be vast stretches of fields. A grand mall has come up too. These days, the sewers of the city are being replaced with bigger ones, perhaps in anticipation of great increase of population, for which the residential accommodation is all ready for occupancy, but none of it has put the people living here to any inconvenience. It is planned in such a way that the people don't have to take a detour.
5年来，一大片曾经是田地的地方建起了多层住宅。还建起了一座大型 购物中心。
这些天，高港的排水管更换了一个更大的，也许是预测到人口会大幅增加。
住宅区居所等着入住。
规划得很好，不会造成人们生活不便，不会需要你绕路的那种。
New Colonies that have come up in the last two years
过去两年新建的楼盘
The city roads here are already broader than highways in India and majority of them are laid in cement. When new colonies come up in India and people start moving in, a multitude of woes come with them and come along the flies and mosquitoes.
高港的公路已经比印度（高速）公路更宽，大多数是用水泥铺设的。
在印度，一旦新住宅区建起来，人们开始搬进去，随之而来的问题也出现，比如苍蝇啊蚊子啊
You can release a bicycle using a phone based application- ride it and deposit it at another location
用手机APP就能解锁一辆共享单车，骑走，然后存放到另一个地方。
Bad approach roads, poor drainage, piled up debris, stagnant water in uneven patches of land, where mosquitoes breed their invading armies, uncut grass, shrubs and vegetation, stray dogs, rats and cats, no boundary walls allowing free run to petty thieves, who steal everything they can get their hands on.
糟糕的公路，不通畅的排水设施，成堆的垃圾，坑坑洼洼地方里的积水，里面是蚊子在繁殖其入侵大军，无人打理的草坪、灌木丛，还有流浪狗和流浪猫，小区没有围墙，小偷自由出入，能偷走的都会被偷走。
Pedestrian Paths
人行道
You name the woe and it’s there, but the people have no choice after the colony is declared habitable, the dwelling units are allotted and the formality of inauguration is gone through. It takes years for the infrastructure to complete and that too after the distraught residents form Unions, after approaching the concerned authorities for getting their grievances addressed fail.
你说得出来的痛苦都存在。
然而，人们没有选择。
周边基础设施要好几年才能完工，这还是发狂的业主不停地找有关机构交涉的结果。