摘要
on a gloomy Saturday afternoon in the suburban Beijing district of Dating famed chiefly for its watermelon fields-a 7-year-old girl sports a helmet,knee pads and a skateboard half her size.She is learning how to'drcp in'-a skateboarding move for novices in which skaters prop their boards up on the edge of a ramp and plunge down the incline.I egs shaking,she calls out to her dad,a 30-something man in skinny jeans and a flat cap standing a few meters away,to make sure he's watching.Then she zcoms down the ramp.Not far away,a couple of teenagers are getting ready to skate down a slide,while Li Chenggao,31,a computer programmer,is mastering a casperflip.