Tourists dispel myths about China

After setting foot inside the Olympic city for the first time just weeks ago, it didn't take long for Ravindra Sharma to notice a very different China from the one he had imagined back home in India.

The bearded 50-year-old and his 43-year-old friend Rakesh Chahar never thought China would be so developed.

"We are very impressed," says Sharma, sipping on his drink at a caf next to the Yashow clothing market. "We had a very wrong impression about China."