Back from the pub, got to leave in about an hour and a half, room is still full of stuff but w/e that's other people's problems now

bring a gas / dust mask if you really plan on going to beijing, the air is so polluted there simply breathing is like smoking 20 cigarettes at a time
The best part is that when the men aren't breathing normally they're smoking cigarettes.
I'll only spend a few days at max in Beijing/dense cities, I want to see the extreme but it's definitely not the focus of the trip.