Insights into China from Kazakhstan

On my first day in Kazakh's capital Astana I was really impressed when a stranger greeted me in Chinese by saying ni hao, hello.

I stopped to talk with the man who has lived in Kazakhstan for more than 45 years and works at a construction factory in Astana.

To my surprise the man could not speak Mandarin, English or any other foreign languages and ni hao was the only foreign words he knew.