China on Four Wheels

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• Getting Justin's bread van on the road

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• Anita Rani is dared to try raw sea cucumber—Episode 2

  Duration: 4:20

• Justin Rowlatt drives up the Aizhai Highway, one of the most dangerous roads in China—Episode 2

  Duration: 1:32

• Anita Rani meets members of the China Supercar Club in Beijing—Episode 1

  Duration: 2:41

• Justin Rowlatt puts his bread van through its paces on a race track—Episode 1

  Duration: 1:44
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• See photos from the second part of Anita and Justin's trip—Episode 2

• A country of contrasts awaits Justin and Anita in the first part of their trip—Episode 1

• 'What was really striking was the complete absence of cars'

  Justin visited a Chinese village where residents live in caves and a donkey provides the only means of transport.
  
  Read Justin's account of life in Laoniuwan
  

  

• 'I wasn’t expecting this in Communist China'

  'It was the first time I’d ever met someone who couldn’t remember how many cars they had – let alone how many super cars'

  Read Anita Rani's account of the young bling supercar-lovers of Beijing

  

• 'China in 10 years could be the biggest economy in the world'

  Justin and Anita were wowed by the six lane highways being built across booming China - but not so impressed by drivers' lane discipline.
  
  Watch their interview with Breakfast's Simon McCoy and Louise Minchin