Chinas wilder Westen

For some cyclists is already the hill to the nearest beer garden too steep. What would keep most of those from a tour through China via velo? A country with a population of approximately 1.3 billion people, and its area with 9,597,995 square kilometers, the fourth of a country is the earth? Not too much perhaps. Nonetheless, the biking is through the Middle Kingdom, which organized the sinologist Volker Haring for European tourists, popular. Only the region of Xinjiang in the northwest of the People's Republic Haring had not yet crossed. But now accompanied the German filmmaker Klaus Kastenholz bike enthusiasts for the two-ARTE documentary 'China's Wild West' in his pioneering voyage to the Uighur Autonomous Province of breath, and began a nice picture. With an area larger than Western Europe is one of the most extensive region of Xinjiang in China. Together with Tibet in the west and Inner Mongolia in the north makes it from 45 percent of state land. However, these areas are very sparsely populated, with a share of only four percent of the population of the People's Republic as well as with its diverse peoples as a melting pot of cultures. Not without reason, the Chinese call the barren Xinjiang as the 'Wild West' of the country - far away from Beijing and the national unity. Can one passage where cyclists worry? Volker Haring put his dream into reality, and explored in the company of the TV cameras, the unexplored area. On Monday, 04.06., 19.00 clock, he steps into 'heirs of the Silk Road' on his bike and ride off. The journey begins in the neighboring town of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, and runs through the former silk route directly into the southern road to Xinjiang. The viewer is experiencing the sometimes adventurous ride in a local TV chair, but feels the fascinating images of the Middle Kingdom and immersive experiences, not least a lot from the history of the country within a short time became a leading export nation. The second part is devoted to the 'neighbors of the Desert'. Haring Radscout reached the modern two-million metropolis Urumqi - the meeting strongly influenced by China peacefully capital of Xinjiang, the Uyghur-established on expatriate Han Chinese. After the two 45-minute episodes of the documentary two faces of the country remain in memory: the 'Wild West of China', seems to have stopped in time, and the image of cities that have lost their old charm untamed ago. And at the end Volker Haring will have traveled 1500 kilometers over hill and dale. Much more than many amateur cyclists throughout his life. ——由Google机器翻译自德语简介（欢迎更新更适当的介绍）