Why China is Building the World’s Biggest City
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Published 2019-05-10
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All Comments (21)
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Didn’t think I forgot about China, did you?
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70 million people city? My whole country counts 60 something million people in total. LOL
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China: exists Polymatter: Write that down, write that down!
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I never been in Macau, but in Portugal they drive on the right hand side of the road, not left like in Britain.
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Guangzhou is not just an administrative center. It is also a massive manufacturing and supply chain hub.
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Fun fact, I live in downtown eastern Shenzhen. It takes me less time getting to downtown Hong Kong than the western CBD district of Shenzhen. Crossing the Wenjindu immigration literally takes 1-2 mins. I love almost everything about Hong Kong, except for the prohibitive price of services. This video has been made quite accurate unlike many other channels.
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China : We need to let the world know about our new city connection plan. Polymatter : Let us Introduce ourselves.
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Is anyone going to talk about how epic Hong Kong’s flag is
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Tokyo:I’m the most populated city! Pearl River Delta City:hold my beer.
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I'm a native Hong Konger and I'm amazed by how knowledgeable the creator of this video is about Hong Kong.
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We used to go to HK and Macau almost every week for shopping and fun, crossing borders took like 15 minutes or a bit more in rush hours. However, after COVID, it's impossible to cross at all for us foreigners. So, for the past couple of years we have to live in this megacity, restricted to the mainland only. Its quite funny though because the center of Macau is closer to my house than my city center.
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China risking it all internationally for hong kong makes a lot more sense now
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As an American living abroad in China, I've been across the borders of futian (HK) and gongbei (MC) checkpoint and back at least a dozen times now, and it's really not as complicated as it's made out to be. Being a complete foreigner, it takes me about 30 minutes because I have to wait in a special, less staffed line. My girlfriend, who is native Chinese, does it in about 10 minutes. You'll have longer wait times trying to get a subway token. There are tons of people that commute across the border daily, especially Shenzhen students. Also, real talk, Shenzhen is a nicer city than Hong Kong. HK is dirtier, more crowded, and more expensive. The only benefit is using western internet without a VPN.
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What I learn today? DJI is a Chinese company.
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China is not just building the Guangzhou Hong Kong cities cluster, but also building others like Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou, and some smaller scale city clusters like Shenyang-Teling-Panjin, Chengdu-Mianyang-Dujiangyan, Xian-Xianyang, etc. There will be many clustered cities in the future, all connected together. China is a huge powerhouse, nobody should ignore it.
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Progress of China in just short span of time.amazes me.
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Polymatter: Its unlikely that either country would risk raising tensions any further. USA: Huwawei is now banned from using Android and Google Play
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What an excellent video well researched and made, one of the best I’ve seen to date.
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talkst about train in china shows german intercity express