It is quite strange that when I visited Tasmania earlier in this year. Most of the parks were empty even though they were maintained quite good. When I visited Nanjing in 2000, I was shocked by the atmosphere in the parks there. In the morning, you can see many many people in the park playing different kinds of tricks, Kung Fu, cultural games, dance, and many others. It was so amazing and wonderful. One more thing, all parks in China are well maintained and are beautiful.
when I was in Hangzhou, I saw an old man standing near the lake in the park with a thing that look like a broom and a bucket of water. At first I thought he was the cleaner in the park. Then I saw he dipped the broom in the bucket and start "sweeping" in weird way. I got closer to see and found out that the old man was doing caligraphy with water on the park floor. Simply amazing. Investing in free public park may sound like expensive, but the benefit to the public is simply immeasurable. It also increase the quality of people's lives tremendously. For government, it increase the public satisfaction a lot.
In China, there are these artistic elderly people everywhere. 😂😂😂When I retire, I also want to go to the park to practice calligraphy with a large brush that I learned in elementary school but have given up for a long time.
Love the sharing of the culture Eric. Most foreign people don't get to see the REAL China. All they witness is what's fed to them via the Media. Everyday it's China did this or China did that and it's mostly negative. Sicking to be frank. My wife and I walk 6 miles 3-4 times a week here in Hunan. We leave our home around 4am to beat the heat and drive to a mountain park. A lot of places you wouldn't feel safe being on the streets at that time but not here. Lastly, we decided to buy the Nio ES6. I can't justify spending the extra cash for an ES8 or EC7. Cheers and Thanks for your insight.
China is a shining example of a well goverened and well functioning society. my country, the US of A, is the exact opposite. it is a country in decay where the elite class exploit the masses for personal gain, allowing the country to rot.
Congratulations on the ES6! Must be fun to take it up to the mountains on your morning walks. I also get up early and walk, usually not 4 though lol. About 6 wake up, drink coffee then climb the mountain here in Nanshan. About 5 km and 300 m elevation gain. Not many people up yet and not too hot or humid. It's miserable by about 10 am...
@@Eric_GarrisonCoffee first thing in the morning? Are you a newbie in China 😅. The locals swear by hot water first thing in the morning, basically as hot as you can handle!
My understanding as a Chinese is that as long as you're not involved in politics or fighting against the government, China is a lot safer than the vast majority of Western countries.
It's lovely to see the elderly exercise, play chess and mingle with friends. In the UK where I am, the old folks are chucked into 'homes' and they spend their days drugged up, staring into space.
The main difference is in China old people are respected and taken care of by society, but in west old people are disliked by society. So in China old people are proud of being old and in west old people are afraid of being identified as old.
China is truly a leader in parks and recreation. It is little wonder that its China's life expectancy has overtaken the USA. Chinese people are blessed with facilities that make growing old fun.
The Chinese park culture is indeed quite unique in the world. Physical health and social connection are major contributors to people's wellness. In this regard, the parks serve a great purpose. Sadly in America, parks have to be only car-accessible, or they would quickly become homeless camps.
Happily your a fool as a communist countries could never be as good as America as China and most of the world is forever imitating America as they should! You flunkies continue with your delusion of greatness as America is truly the leader of all countries and I David Givins will break my country America 🇺🇸! The truth is that America rules, rocks!😊😅😂❤
@@weizhang2834 Garden Culture in China has a long history.For example, the famous Suzhou Gardens. In the past, gardens were private and only the wealthy could enjoy them. However, in modern China, their scale has expanded, and they have become recreational places for the public. These gardens encompass both traditional Chinese classical architecture and incorporate Western gardening styles, along with modern amenities. Japan also has, which may be due to its small land area and cultural reasons, has always maintained a courtyard-style small scale, and is more intimate.
@@weizhang2834 Koreans are vainer and Japanese are pretentious. Chinese people, I think, are real people. Chinese people don't try to be what they are not.
It's intentional that we're not being told the the truth about China. Do tou think that they want us to realise that there's somewhere that so many people are living better than us with high quality things much cheaper!? Not ti mention that women can be out at night all hours and nobody bother them!? No thieves and robbers!?
That's right. I've watched American sci-fi movies where there are no more green trees or animals after Cyberpunk, and it's baffling. Why can't concrete buildings and high-tech electronics coexist with the natural environment? Shouldn't it be the case that the more technology is developed, the more it can harmonize human needs with the environment? That's why I've always been unimpressed by American-style cyberpunk movies (like Blade Runner). It's so far removed from our ideas about nature and people.
@@heyili1502 Cyberpunk is really strange once you realize that there are no kids in those cities. How does society even become like that? It would be a dead end, one generation thing.
One of the reason the park and the plaza are all so alive and so energetic is that the Chinese are retired in 50s and early 60 .So you see lots of people and activities out there during weekdays and you just feel good about being in the park always.
while i was working in Manhattan, i always hesitate to wander into the central park for fear of being mobbed. in china, that fear NEVER EVER crosses my mind. the problems with public parks, and more general public space, are homeless, drug addicts, and gun violence. in a super rich town where everything is expensive and it takes cars to go from anywhere to anywhere, those problems are less obvious and life is great. but the common people deserve peace of mind even if they don't live ib fancy towns. those three problems have to be addressed.
Your white so I understand your fear going to central park that must have been 10 years ago as I go to all parks in nyc! Nyc has improved as Florida parks have been great since the beginning of time!😊😅😂❤
Bravo, we modern people all like to play bungee jumping and listen to dynamic pop music. For those exciting parks in the US, they are definitely worth promoting, but not in my own backyard.🤣
I am Chinese lives in California. You answered the question back of my mind for long time. Why I like to go to parks every night when I visit China but don't actually go to the parks back to California. complete behavior changing. The vibe and the activities in the park is my motivation to go and enjoy so much.
I live in Hong Kong. Shenzhen is our back garden. Beautiful parks and recreation areas. Subway free for age over 60. I just had a 2day visit there (July 14) . Sadly, 34C outdoor. Had to retreat to malls and back to hotel. Not on Summer.
Shanghai (my home) has great parks. One of my favorites, Xujiahui Park was enlarged & renovated when the former 3 Coins Tire factory moved out of the city downtown and a former industrial site turned into a better park with even preservation of one of the factory smokestacks to create a memorial to the company & workers.
I am from Hong Kong, parks are small but we still make good use of them. Yes, parks in Shenzhen and China are fun. But i don't like the loud music. It's good that an American can say something fair. I guess as more and more Americans visit China, the country can be better understood.
@@qxhuang3560 Nobody is creating hate. He is just honestly saying what he thinks. The OP also stated he didn't like loud music. Is that creating hate too?
China is Amazing. As an American I've always thought China to be thus ominous communist dictatorial, dirty unsafe country! Until I was in Shanghai, Guanzhou and few other cities. I was pleasantly surprised. You are absolutely right about the parks. If only our elderlies are as sociable and community minded as the Chinese!
Like almost all western people, all your negative opinions about China before must be lies from western media. They never dare to report the real modern China, because they are afraid of causing people to question their country ~ that's it.😊
I live here in California almost my entire life(originally from Texas), I think I've only been to a park twice in the past 10 years. They are just too far away to walk or even ride a bike.
Sadly, the safe, clean and comfortable environment of Chinese parks is what parks should be from the begainning, but people in some countries have forgotten this.
I live in Singapore which is widely reputed to be a city within a garden. Because of the equatorial weather we’ve always added greenery into every corner of our island, some of which are actually quite large parks. What marks out Singapore’s parkland design is the park connector system, which aims to connect all the main public parks via walking and cycling paths. You should come and see it for yourself, it’s literally hundreds of kilometers of landscaped paths, a lot of it running along rivers and canals.
Wow, this park is so clean and well maintained. What’s more, it has attractions for different age groups and people of different personalities - kids can play and jump freely, energetic people can dance and exercise, whilst others can meditate or just simply enjoy the reflections beside the ponds. The rainbow bridge is so cool! 👍👍👍Thanks for showing this👏🏻👏🏻
Interesting video! Impressed with your use of objective metrics to back your viewpoint! Indeed, simply drawing factual comparisons with US infrastructure does show the unfortunate state of their underinvestment in public services (even without any intent of shaming them).
I can’t believe how much American propaganda influences us about China in America. I hope I can get back to China. What amazing progress they have made. Such a fun and beautiful place to live.
You are right!! Parks in China are absolutely great places. 👍👍👍 We go to one park each time we visit Shenzhen. Next week we are going to Xiangmi Park. We hope to visit all the 10+ parks in Shenzhen.
Let me tell you the truth: Shenzhen, which is only 1260 square kilometers, has more than 2,000 parks! Some parks may be small, but they are also great places for neighborhood residents to gather to socialize and exercise.The Shenzhen Municipal Government website provides a downloadable list of names and addresses of 1,260 parks.
Great content. A Chinese urbanism channel would be an amazing niche for you! Especially since almost all urbanism stuff is American centric. Nice to learn about an East Asian approach to urbanism.
Montgomery county Maryland parks are award-winning. Very large Asian and Latino communities use them. Sometimes the public restroom is a portajohn. They're for children and wildlife, not adults. No security guards. Almost no police. MoCo is very affluent and urban. To keep the homeless out they make them pedestrian-hostile. Want to go to the park if you don't have a car? Parks are miles from where the homeless can panhandle or scavenge, even further from soup kitchens and shelters. Also you can't camp at a park. There is little to no shade. Everything is a ballfield. It's all for Little League and soccer! There's not even hopscotch. Little kids have the standard playground with 2 swings, 2 bouncy horses, and a fort with a plastic slide. Park employees spend their time fixing the grading so the soil doesn't wash away.
Montgomery county is becoming more urban, but it, like most of Maryland, is still predominantly suburban, without an extensive public transit system, which is why the parks remain car dependent. That's not necessarily by design, but just a result of the fact that a lot more Americans live in suburban settings. Interestingly enough, the much less urban Howard County next door has arguably less car dependent park systems. Because Columbia MD is a planned city, it was built as multiple "villages" each with its own artificial lake, small shopping center, and surrounding parks and trails, which make the individual parts of Columbia highly walkable, although you are still depending on a car if you want to go to any other part of the county.
Parks in Colorado cities are pretty good, well maintained, few homeless people, normally made up of a field for baseball or soccer/football, a kid’s playground, a walking path, a few shelters for hosting birthday parties, and sometimes a real bathroom, but most times just porta potties. Bigger parks have basketball and tennis courts and even water features. The only thing lacking here is pretty trees.
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In most UK parks, one would be very hard to find a public toilet, even the famous parks in the London city center and near the Buckingham Palace like the Hyde park and the Green park have no public toilet within. Also most of their parks have no place to stand or sit to aviod the rain when it is raining, which I find very frustrating because the UK rains a lot. Sitting benches are few and far between too. Shaded places to avoid the hot sun are also hardly able to be found. The worst aspect however is that after dark, parks would become a dangerous place for normal people to enter, because it would become a playground for gang members, prostitutes, drug addicts and the homeless.
In India public toilet attendants claim bribes from public when the toilets are supposed to be free. Consequently people prefer to poop in the traditional way i.e open air
Those parks in London were not designed with shade in mind. They are designed for people to bake half naked in the sun. 😄😄 Not much variety in function envisaged.
15 years ago, I lived in Shenzhen, near sihai park. it's a small park, nearby the park, there is massage store, the work ofen blinde people( goverment have disable school training these people to make sure they have some skill to live), where a stuff fix my neck problem, still miss them.
If you want to know the reality of one country, the best way is coming to the country and feel it by yourself. I thought Paris was a fantastic city with beautiful view and romantic sense, but the second day i travel to the city my purse was stolen. And the smelling in some street and subway was terrible, my friends told me don't go out in the midnight. I can't image it in my city even it is a really small city in China. Country control media to let people know what they want you know. I have to admit that we still have lots of problems, but we trust our goverment because we know it is solving these problems for everyone, the country is not perfect, but most Chinese people all believe we are in the right way. So, just come here, we welcome all friendly people.
Sihai Park used to be a large open space (without any ponds) with nothing in it. Later, it became more and more beautiful, but there were too many mosquitoes.
I'm a Chinese that have lived both in China(Xi'an) and Italy(Milan) I'd say it fair that Milan, alongside with many European countries all have really good and big parks that's easy to access, and like in China, you see ppl of all ages in the park doing all kinds of activities, children's playground, public tape with drinking water, pedestrian lane and bike lane, also dog parks. Pets are well respected which allows them to go into any public places. And the greatest thing is most of the insanely big park in Italy are all de-industrialized former factories that were once polluting the city, they were replaced with man made hills with all kinds of grasses and trees. I'm glad when I returned to China I see the same thing happening in my city, it used to be so much worse but we are catching up quick! I am enjoying the same level of parks like in Italy with free and clean public toilet(1 euro in Italy) and cctv everywhere ensure safety when hanging out in the park during midnight.( Yeah I don't mind the big brother watching me
I live in the UK and I didnt really think too much about the hostile architecture and yes we have them on benches to stop skateboarders using them to slide along, we have spikes or deliberate uneven grounds to stop homeless ppl sleeping there and our parks are not safe and no one in their right mind would even go in them when daylight is low. The other issue we would have with those high tech gym equipment you shown is that i can assure you they won't last a day here in the UK. It would be vandalised and graffitti'ed within hours.
习近平总书记： 绿水青山就是金山银山，我们过去讲，既要绿水青山又要金山银山，实际上绿水青山就是金山银山。 China's achievement in environmental protection, green energy growth and beautiful parks are testament to the effectiveness of the Chinese system and President Xi's leadership.
My wife is from Taiwan and we travel there quite often. I can say the park culture/system in Taiwan is very similar to that of China. That said, I can't say the same about the parks in the suburbs of outside Philly or within Philly. While the parks are very inviting to the public for Asian parks, the same can't be said of the parks in where I live. Our parks in the US are underutilize (unless you are in Central Park, NYC), most parks lacks public toilets and/or other amenities and exercise equipment (way outdated). The parks that has bathroom are usually filthy and poorly maintained. I often saw adult soft ball players walked to the side of the bushes on the perimeter of the field to relieve themselves when I do my nightly walks because we don't have public toilets.
good relfex traning Eric 😅, and thats with a cam in hand.. but i do agree with u, even though we have nice parks here in Norway and Denmark, they are not often made for multiple purposes, and often u have to drive to them. they are more made for a walk to get fresh air, or lay in the grass just to relax for a while with friends.
I really like European parks, though I'm not sure I really spent much time in any in Denmark or Norway while I was there last year. I did walk around the park with the mermaid in Copenhagen, but I didn't linger...I did hit up some parks in Sweden with my friend. A really great one in Malmo...I think my experience with a lot of european parks is as you said, not really much mixed use activities typically. Lots of walkers, which is great, but not a ton of other stuff happening. But again, that's limited experience and I could be quite wrong.
my grandparents place had a park next to it. it was genuinely the most beautiful place i had been in a long time, especially just before sundown. they had a concrete bridge over a river where we could walk under it along the river and the reflections would catch onto the ceiling
where I am, public bathroom in the park are locked and even when it's open no one dares to go in. It's so dirty, even the homeless don't use it and it can get dangerous as well. It's not because of the homeless people that hangs around the park. There are drug dealers in the park as well, and you have to drive to the park for nothing👎👎👎.
Lovely pictures and even better commentary. I hope there can be more people to people exchanges like this between China and US to mitigate tensions between governments and to remind the governments that the people of both countries want to live peaceful and normal lives and pursue very underrated pleasures like a walk in the park with children and grandchildren. 🤔
A bridge has to be built from both sides. To break the toxic group think on China in Capitol Hill the work of western expatriates in China educating and reaching out to the rank and file of America is vital in challenging misconceptions based on fear and ignorance. All Chinese should give theses expatriates all the encouragement we can give in this pursuit for peace🤔
I don't recall many old Chinese men working out in the parks but I did enjoy the "dancing grannies" in the parks and on the mall behind my wifes home in Chengdu. I am curious about where in China you are.
The people should rightly gather and protest against the town/city council for not doing its rightful duty ie provide basic service likd safe park, good amenities like clean water, clean and well maintained washrooms, etc. What happenned to all the taxes collected from home owners, business owners via annual quit rents, assessments, parking fees and etc.. High time to sack all the useless officials!! Better still, change the governnrnt to a better form if government!!
“Hostile Architecture” man London is littered with it ( and before anyone else says it’s full of litter too, I know 😏 ). I’d never given it any real thought other than what c**t designed this, you’re bang on though with your description! Quite a few parks near me in London, they’re not too bad to be honest, Dulwich park is one of the nicer ones but it like all other parks is fenced off and gates locked up past certain times. Loved the big bull sculpture 👍
We are an indigenous nation, not a nation of immigrants. The people chose the Communist Party, and then the government gave back to the people and achieved each other.
It is quite strange that when I visited Tasmania earlier in this year. Most of the parks were empty even though they were maintained quite good. When I visited Nanjing in 2000, I was shocked by the atmosphere in the parks there. In the morning, you can see many many people in the park playing different kinds of tricks, Kung Fu, cultural games, dance, and many others. It was so amazing and wonderful. One more thing, all parks in China are well maintained and are beautiful.
The Chinese enjoy their life
when I was in Hangzhou, I saw an old man standing near the lake in the park with a thing that look like a broom and a bucket of water. At first I thought he was the cleaner in the park. Then I saw he dipped the broom in the bucket and start "sweeping" in weird way. I got closer to see and found out that the old man was doing caligraphy with water on the park floor. Simply amazing. Investing in free public park may sound like expensive, but the benefit to the public is simply immeasurable. It also increase the quality of people's lives tremendously. For government, it increase the public satisfaction a lot.
In China, there are these artistic elderly people everywhere. 😂😂😂When I retire, I also want to go to the park to practice calligraphy with a large brush that I learned in elementary school but have given up for a long time.
Love the sharing of the culture Eric. Most foreign people don't get to see the REAL China. All they witness is what's fed to them via the Media. Everyday it's China did this or China did that and it's mostly negative. Sicking to be frank. My wife and I walk 6 miles 3-4 times a week here in Hunan. We leave our home around 4am to beat the heat and drive to a mountain park. A lot of places you wouldn't feel safe being on the streets at that time but not here. Lastly, we decided to buy the Nio ES6. I can't justify spending the extra cash for an ES8 or EC7. Cheers and Thanks for your insight.
China is a shining example of a well goverened and well functioning society. my country, the US of A, is the exact opposite. it is a country in decay where the elite class exploit the masses for personal gain, allowing the country to rot.
Congratulations on the ES6! Must be fun to take it up to the mountains on your morning walks. I also get up early and walk, usually not 4 though lol. About 6 wake up, drink coffee then climb the mountain here in Nanshan. About 5 km and 300 m elevation gain. Not many people up yet and not too hot or humid. It's miserable by about 10 am...
Wow!! You guys are living a very good life in China
@@Eric_GarrisonCoffee first thing in the morning? Are you a newbie in China 😅. The locals swear by hot water first thing in the morning, basically as hot as you can handle!
My understanding as a Chinese is that as long as you're not involved in politics or fighting against the government, China is a lot safer than the vast majority of Western countries.
It's lovely to see the elderly exercise, play chess and mingle with friends. In the UK where I am, the old folks are chucked into 'homes' and they spend their days drugged up, staring into space.
Very sad. Imagine putting away your parents in an old people's home😢😢😢
And what for :it’s about time
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The main difference is in China old people are respected and taken care of by society, but in west old people are disliked by society. So in China old people are proud of being old and in west old people are afraid of being identified as old.
if outside would be safer, old people would surely hangout. But it's not safe at all because of our permissiveness
China is truly a leader in parks and recreation. It is little wonder that its China's life expectancy has overtaken the USA. Chinese people are blessed with facilities that make growing old fun.
Not a fair comparison. Give guns and drugs to the Chinese citizens and let them shoot at each other. Then, we have a fair life expectancy comparison.
Most important is, not like in the west, people really take care of their parents.
The Chinese park culture is indeed quite unique in the world. Physical health and social connection are major contributors to people's wellness. In this regard, the parks serve a great purpose. Sadly in America, parks have to be only car-accessible, or they would quickly become homeless camps.
The same East Asian countries like Korea and japan, they don’t have this kind of park culture
Happily your a fool as a communist countries could never be as good as America as China and most of the world is forever imitating America as they should! You flunkies continue with your delusion of greatness as America is truly the leader of all countries and I David Givins will break my country America 🇺🇸! The truth is that America rules, rocks!😊😅😂❤
@@weizhang2834 Garden Culture in China has a long history.For example, the famous Suzhou Gardens. In the past, gardens were private and only the wealthy could enjoy them. However, in modern China, their scale has expanded, and they have become recreational places for the public. These gardens encompass both traditional Chinese classical architecture and incorporate Western gardening styles, along with modern amenities.
Japan also has, which may be due to its small land area and cultural reasons, has always maintained a courtyard-style small scale, and is more intimate.
Singapore is the same way.
@@weizhang2834 Koreans are vainer and Japanese are pretentious. Chinese people, I think, are real people. Chinese people don't try to be what they are not.
The park probably play an important role to make older people healthy and live much longer
and more productive. A 70 YO Chinese person in China could be healthier and more productive than an obese 40 YO in usa and the uk.
I feel like we're missing the truth on China (in the West).
In the US, this place would be full of open drug users. If it even existed at all.
cause the west media is controlled by deep state, they don't allow any country better than America
It's intentional that we're not being told the the truth about China. Do tou think that they want us to realise that there's somewhere that so many people are living better than us with high quality things much cheaper!?
Not ti mention that women can be out at night all hours and nobody bother them!?
No thieves and robbers!?
Safety is probably #1 priority.
@@CashCatzIn most subway stations in the USA, the floors are filthy.
There are a lot of plants and flowers on both sides of urban streets in China, but many foreign streets are almost all made of steel and cement.
specially on the highways, you see garden in the middle about the size of 2 lanes, compared to Canada..... can't say much.
That's right. I've watched American sci-fi movies where there are no more green trees or animals after Cyberpunk, and it's baffling. Why can't concrete buildings and high-tech electronics coexist with the natural environment? Shouldn't it be the case that the more technology is developed, the more it can harmonize human needs with the environment?
That's why I've always been unimpressed by American-style cyberpunk movies (like Blade Runner). It's so far removed from our ideas about nature and people.
@@heyili1502说得太好了
I love plants human need more plants in city!
@@heyili1502 Cyberpunk is really strange once you realize that there are no kids in those cities. How does society even become like that? It would be a dead end, one generation thing.
Enjoy your sharing of the Parks in China. I like your analogy of what a great place should be.
One of the reason the park and the plaza are all so alive and so energetic is that the Chinese are retired in 50s and early 60 .So you see lots of people and activities out there during weekdays and you just feel good about being in the park always.
while i was working in Manhattan, i always hesitate to wander into the central park for fear of being mobbed. in china, that fear NEVER EVER crosses my mind.
the problems with public parks, and more general public space, are homeless, drug addicts, and gun violence. in a super rich town where everything is expensive and it takes cars to go from anywhere to anywhere, those problems are less obvious and life is great. but the common people deserve peace of mind even if they don't live ib fancy towns. those three problems have to be addressed.
Your white so I understand your fear going to central park that must have been 10 years ago as I go to all parks in nyc! Nyc has improved as Florida parks have been great since the beginning of time!😊😅😂❤
Central Park is very safe. You fear us pathetic .
I have lived and worked in China and you are right the parks are well used by the locals.
US Parks are great too, full of tents, you get to practise self defence by fighting muggers and many more excitement 😊
You must have a park in your house!😅😂😊
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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You also get to challenge your running PBs times when chased by someone with a knife looking to mug you!
Bravo, we modern people all like to play bungee jumping and listen to dynamic pop music. For those exciting parks in the US, they are definitely worth promoting, but not in my own backyard.🤣
I am Chinese lives in California. You answered the question back of my mind for long time. Why I like to go to parks every night when I visit China but don't actually go to the parks back to California. complete behavior changing. The vibe and the activities in the park is my motivation to go and enjoy so much.
Bad English. Learn grammar.
Chinese Gov invests generously in Parks for the benefits it people.
They have the money to do it because their military budget is much lower than 2% of GDP although their military is also very rapidly developing.
China military budget is 1.3% of its GDP. The USA spend more than 3%.
@@liu3gz我们和周边的国家几乎没什么仇怨，不需要那么大的军事推入。
@@王班超 我们浪费得比美国少
Very grateful to see this video. Thanks
Can’t agree more.
You are doing incredible work, my guy. I almost never hear anyone in the urban planning community talk about China.
Thanks... I'm not sure if I can keep it up though. I got too many other things I like to do and talk about haha
Very true, I haven’t noticed this before. Also, love the name ;)
The Chinese were always great on knowing how to enjoy life!
Was it before world War 2 or after world War 2!?😊
I never seen any countries on the world building parks like this except China ❤ I am quite enjoy my life here .
I got a $50 fine for staying in the park after dusk in Canada
Did you pay it?
OMG!
公园不应该是开放给人民的吗？况且，即使多呆一会，有必要罚款吗？
Shame on the govn of this city!!
bruh, as a native new yorker, central park isn't safe after dark. and there are parts that aren't safe any time of the day.
Your a BS new Yorker as I've gone to more parks then you and I'm 4 year tourist new Yorker! Some children are not safe with their parents !
为什么啊？记得那是前几年夏天，和朋友一名骑行的好友我喝醉了，途经公园、然后我俩就躺长椅上睡了一觉。第二庭早上被跳广场舞的大婶吵醒，然后骑车回家了。一切都很安全。
@@王班超 纽约中央公园有跳广场舞的大婶吗？
I live in Hong Kong. Shenzhen is our back garden. Beautiful parks and recreation areas. Subway free for age over 60. I just had a 2day visit there (July 14) . Sadly, 34C outdoor. Had to retreat to malls and back to hotel. Not on Summer.
香港说深圳是后花园，就是因为消费低吧😂😂😂，事实上深圳的制造业和科技远远领先香港啊😂😂😂
I live in Shenzhen, Hongkong is our back garden XD
后花园这词，这位朋友还是慎用吧，多少有点以自己为主，以别人为辅的意味。
@@monacolita9999再顯二地文化差異。
有點玻璃心了，後花園是讚美詞，是一個多綠帶及舒服的地方。
深圳gdp不是早就超过香港了吗？看好深圳，香港早就不应该有优越感了。
Safety is the key that really makes the difference.
Shanghai (my home) has great parks. One of my favorites, Xujiahui Park was enlarged & renovated when the former 3 Coins Tire factory moved out of the city downtown and a former industrial site turned into a better park with even preservation of one of the factory smokestacks to create a memorial to the company & workers.
I am from Hong Kong, parks are small but we still make good use of them.
Yes, parks in Shenzhen and China are fun. But i don't like the loud music.
It's good that an American can say something fair. I guess as more and more Americans visit China, the country can be better understood.
HK urban planning is terrible. Outside the park, not a single tree in the urban areas unlike Chinese cities where all streets have trees lined
@@nmew6926 don’t create hate between HK and mainland China.
@@qxhuang3560it’s true Hong Kong parks suck
@@qxhuang3560 Nobody is creating hate. He is just honestly saying what he thinks. The OP also stated he didn't like loud music. Is that creating hate too?
@@賴志偉-d7h please, read carefully. Make sure whom I was referring to. I wish you could figure it out before you make a comment.
3 things I envy from China. Energy (Electricity), Public Transport (especially HSR), and of course parks
very interesting perspectives, i never watched any video that analyses parks in these four criteria, very valuable learning
我这一个七十万人的社区，大小两百多个公园。非常好的公园，有极限运动公园，有湿地公园，有Ai主题的智能公园，全免费超干净，不得不说，我们的公园太好了
My park here is super, super beautiful. Lots and lots of lotus flowers.
Chinese parks are definitely a threat to United States' national security
🤣more to their bloated ego, but government not people.
Or let's say of those fake-news expertised mass media.
China is Amazing. As an American I've always thought China to be thus ominous communist dictatorial, dirty unsafe country!
Until I was in Shanghai, Guanzhou and few other cities. I was pleasantly surprised.
You are absolutely right about the parks. If only our elderlies are as sociable and community minded as the Chinese!
China is much closer to State Capitalism than Communism.
Like almost all western people, all your negative opinions about China before must be lies from western media. They never dare to report the real modern China, because they are afraid of causing people to question their country ~ that's it.😊
Chinese parks rival botanical gardens elsewhere.
I live here in California almost my entire life(originally from Texas), I think I've only been to a park twice in the past 10 years. They are just too far away to walk or even ride a bike.
Wow great video, you showed some amazing video of old grandpa exercising
Sadly, the safe, clean and comfortable environment of Chinese parks is what parks should be from the begainning, but people in some countries have forgotten this.
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I live in Singapore which is widely reputed to be a city within a garden. Because of the equatorial weather we’ve always added greenery into every corner of our island, some of which are actually quite large parks. What marks out Singapore’s parkland design is the park connector system, which aims to connect all the main public parks via walking and cycling paths. You should come and see it for yourself, it’s literally hundreds of kilometers of landscaped paths, a lot of it running along rivers and canals.
Singapore~~ large, 😉 some parks in China are larger than your country😂
Well so what is your point? You think it is a competition? You think this is an “invitation to flex” moment?
Singapore is always so disgusting.
I think you have misunderstood the focus of this video.
Parks in China are clean and safe. Thanks for sharing. 👍🙏
We have nice parks in Sydney. Lots of new playgrounds, walkways and exercise equipment being put in. Probably the trade off for more apartments.
Used to really enjoy walking in the park near USYD when I studied there. The ponds had eels in them. Was cool af
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Lonliness kills , good to see old people having fun with friends
very true
The city looks beautiful
Wow, this park is so clean and well maintained. What’s more, it has attractions for different age groups and people of different personalities - kids can play and jump freely, energetic people can dance and exercise, whilst others can meditate or just simply enjoy the reflections beside the ponds. The rainbow bridge is so cool! 👍👍👍Thanks for showing this👏🏻👏🏻
Interesting video! Impressed with your use of objective metrics to back your viewpoint!
Indeed, simply drawing factual comparisons with US infrastructure does show the unfortunate state of their underinvestment in public services (even without any intent of shaming them).
I can’t believe how much American propaganda influences us about China in America. I hope I can get back to China. What amazing progress they have made. Such a fun and beautiful place to live.
You are right!! Parks in China are absolutely great places. 👍👍👍
We go to one park each time we visit Shenzhen. Next week we are going to Xiangmi Park. We hope to visit all the 10+ parks in Shenzhen.
xiangmi park is my favorite in downtown SZ. If you don’t mind go further east to the Xianhu park, it is gem.
I like the parks in Shenzhen very much, and the pattern is atmospheric!❤
Let me tell you the truth: Shenzhen, which is only 1260 square kilometers, has more than 2,000 parks! Some parks may be small, but they are also great places for neighborhood residents to gather to socialize and exercise.The Shenzhen Municipal Government website provides a downloadable list of names and addresses of 1,260 parks.
Great content. A Chinese urbanism channel would be an amazing niche for you! Especially since almost all urbanism stuff is American centric. Nice to learn about an East Asian approach to urbanism.
Montgomery county Maryland parks are award-winning. Very large Asian and Latino communities use them. Sometimes the public restroom is a portajohn. They're for children and wildlife, not adults. No security guards. Almost no police. MoCo is very affluent and urban. To keep the homeless out they make them pedestrian-hostile. Want to go to the park if you don't have a car? Parks are miles from where the homeless can panhandle or scavenge, even further from soup kitchens and shelters. Also you can't camp at a park. There is little to no shade. Everything is a ballfield. It's all for Little League and soccer! There's not even hopscotch. Little kids have the standard playground with 2 swings, 2 bouncy horses, and a fort with a plastic slide. Park employees spend their time fixing the grading so the soil doesn't wash away.
Award winning but sound quite bad in reality. Shame.
Montgomery county is becoming more urban, but it, like most of Maryland, is still predominantly suburban, without an extensive public transit system, which is why the parks remain car dependent. That's not necessarily by design, but just a result of the fact that a lot more Americans live in suburban settings. Interestingly enough, the much less urban Howard County next door has arguably less car dependent park systems. Because Columbia MD is a planned city, it was built as multiple "villages" each with its own artificial lake, small shopping center, and surrounding parks and trails, which make the individual parts of Columbia highly walkable, although you are still depending on a car if you want to go to any other part of the county.
Parks in Colorado cities are pretty good, well maintained, few homeless people, normally made up of a field for baseball or soccer/football, a kid’s playground, a walking path, a few shelters for hosting birthday parties, and sometimes a real bathroom, but most times just porta potties. Bigger parks have basketball and tennis courts and even water features. The only thing lacking here is pretty trees.
Sport facilities are nice but they aren’t the same as parks tho
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In most UK parks, one would be very hard to find a public toilet, even the famous parks in the London city center and near the Buckingham Palace like the Hyde park and the Green park have no public toilet within. Also most of their parks have no place to stand or sit to aviod the rain when it is raining, which I find very frustrating because the UK rains a lot. Sitting benches are few and far between too. Shaded places to avoid the hot sun are also hardly able to be found. The worst aspect however is that after dark, parks would become a dangerous place for normal people to enter, because it would become a playground for gang members, prostitutes, drug addicts and the homeless.
In India public toilet attendants claim bribes from public when the toilets are supposed to be free. Consequently people prefer to poop in the traditional way i.e open air
Those parks in London were not designed with shade in mind. They are designed for people to bake half naked in the sun. 😄😄 Not much variety in function envisaged.
Dangerous my ass. So many bullshiters on here.
It doesn’t rain a lot in London . Rains more in most European cities
Hyde park has toilets and Green Park uses the station toilets
15 years ago, I lived in Shenzhen, near sihai park. it's a small park, nearby the park, there is massage store, the work ofen blinde people( goverment have disable school training these people to make sure they have some skill to live), where a stuff fix my neck problem, still miss them.
If you want to know the reality of one country, the best way is coming to the country and feel it by yourself. I thought Paris was a fantastic city with beautiful view and romantic sense, but the second day i travel to the city my purse was stolen. And the smelling in some street and subway was terrible, my friends told me don't go out in the midnight. I can't image it in my city even it is a really small city in China. Country control media to let people know what they want you know. I have to admit that we still have lots of problems, but we trust our goverment because we know it is solving these problems for everyone, the country is not perfect, but most Chinese people all believe we are in the right way. So, just come here, we welcome all friendly people.
China is simply a Great Place where ever you go!
Before world War 2 or after!😊😅😂
I used to work at Gongye 2nd Road，and lived in 花果山，which is right next to this park!
Sihai Park used to be a large open space (without any ponds) with nothing in it. Later, it became more and more beautiful, but there were too many mosquitoes.
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@@mysseelu 有的，吃过
I'm a Chinese that have lived both in China(Xi'an) and Italy(Milan) I'd say it fair that Milan, alongside with many European countries all have really good and big parks that's easy to access, and like in China, you see ppl of all ages in the park doing all kinds of activities, children's playground, public tape with drinking water, pedestrian lane and bike lane, also dog parks. Pets are well respected which allows them to go into any public places. And the greatest thing is most of the insanely big park in Italy are all de-industrialized former factories that were once polluting the city, they were replaced with man made hills with all kinds of grasses and trees. I'm glad when I returned to China I see the same thing happening in my city, it used to be so much worse but we are catching up quick! I am enjoying the same level of parks like in Italy with free and clean public toilet(1 euro in Italy) and cctv everywhere ensure safety when hanging out in the park during midnight.( Yeah I don't mind the big brother watching me
I live in the UK and I didnt really think too much about the hostile architecture and yes we have them on benches to stop skateboarders using them to slide along, we have spikes or deliberate uneven grounds to stop homeless ppl sleeping there and our parks are not safe and no one in their right mind would even go in them when daylight is low.
The other issue we would have with those high tech gym equipment you shown is that i can assure you they won't last a day here in the UK. It would be vandalised and graffitti'ed within hours.
Sad reality and terrible mentality
习近平总书记： 绿水青山就是金山银山，我们过去讲，既要绿水青山又要金山银山，实际上绿水青山就是金山银山。
China's achievement in environmental protection, green energy growth and beautiful parks are testament to the effectiveness of the Chinese system and President Xi's leadership.
My wife is from Taiwan and we travel there quite often. I can say the park culture/system in Taiwan is very similar to that of China. That said, I can't say the same about the parks in the suburbs of outside Philly or within Philly. While the parks are very inviting to the public for Asian parks, the same can't be said of the parks in where I live. Our parks in the US are underutilize (unless you are in Central Park, NYC), most parks lacks public toilets and/or other amenities and exercise equipment (way outdated). The parks that has bathroom are usually filthy and poorly maintained. I often saw adult soft ball players walked to the side of the bushes on the perimeter of the field to relieve themselves when I do my nightly walks because we don't have public toilets.
因为台湾就是中国的一个省，多读点历史有好处
因为台湾本身就是中国的一个省，所以文化一样
basically same culture.
Something about thousands years civilization they know how to living in good life, for example *fengsui, it's embedded on the culture with purposes
hahaha, the beginning is soooo funny
good relfex traning Eric 😅, and thats with a cam in hand.. but i do agree with u, even though we have nice parks here in Norway and Denmark, they are not often made for multiple purposes, and often u have to drive to them.
they are more made for a walk to get fresh air, or lay in the grass just to relax for a while with friends.
I really like European parks, though I'm not sure I really spent much time in any in Denmark or Norway while I was there last year. I did walk around the park with the mermaid in Copenhagen, but I didn't linger...I did hit up some parks in Sweden with my friend. A really great one in Malmo...I think my experience with a lot of european parks is as you said, not really much mixed use activities typically. Lots of walkers, which is great, but not a ton of other stuff happening. But again, that's limited experience and I could be quite wrong.
Thank you, Eric, for your detailed report. As I know, the park becomes the social place for Chinese daily life rather than gathering parties.
Nice video guru .Thank you
my grandparents place had a park next to it. it was genuinely the most beautiful place i had been in a long time, especially just before sundown. they had a concrete bridge over a river where we could walk under it along the river and the reflections would catch onto the ceiling
where I am, public bathroom in the park are locked and even when it's open no one dares to go in. It's so dirty, even the homeless don't use it and it can get dangerous as well. It's not because of the homeless people that hangs around the park. There are drug dealers in the park as well, and you have to drive to the park for nothing👎👎👎.
Lovely pictures and even better commentary. I hope there can be more people to people exchanges like this between China and US to mitigate tensions between governments and to remind the governments that the people of both countries want to live peaceful and normal lives and pursue very underrated pleasures like a walk in the park with children and grandchildren. 🤔
What you say should be addressed to jealous America！😏
A bridge has to be built from both sides. To break the toxic group think on China in Capitol Hill the work of western expatriates in China educating and reaching out to the rank and file of America is vital in challenging misconceptions based on fear and ignorance. All Chinese should give theses expatriates all the encouragement we can give in this pursuit for peace🤔
You need to understand the tensions between the governments are not from China, don't you?😂
Only by pointing out the difference we can learn and improve. 👍
谢谢，已经想去这个公园了……
Thank you 😊😊😊
Hi Eric, great video. I also live in SZ, would love to meet sometime
I love China!! ❤❤❤
I totally agree with you 👏👏👏👍
the only "park" anywhere near me is a golf course and of course it's all fenced off and only available to private members.
No stabbers in the parks like in London ?
Lol murderers or attempted murderers like those stabbers would likely get extremely long prison sentence if not the death penalty in China.
China has a great social culture.
so cool
The best you can do for yourself is to go personally and see for yourself .
Wow! ❤
I'm Chinese, I don't know which province in China you are in, but hope you have a nice trip
I don't recall many old Chinese men working out in the parks but I did enjoy the "dancing grannies" in the parks and on the mall behind my wifes home in Chengdu. I am curious about where in China you are.
The people should rightly gather and protest against the town/city council for not doing its rightful duty ie provide basic service likd safe park, good amenities like clean water, clean and well maintained washrooms, etc.
What happenned to all the taxes collected from home owners, business owners via annual quit rents, assessments, parking fees and etc..
High time to sack all the useless officials!!
Better still, change the governnrnt to a better form if government!!
I live in Sydney, Australia, where the parks are all big grass with little sense of design, and the Chinese parks give people a more layered sense
This is what happen if city build by Urban Designer instead politician.
“Hostile Architecture” man London is littered with it ( and before anyone else says it’s full of litter too, I know 😏 ).
I’d never given it any real thought other than what c**t designed this, you’re bang on though with your description!
Quite a few parks near me in London, they’re not too bad to be honest, Dulwich park is one of the nicer ones but it like all other parks is fenced off and gates locked up past certain times.
Loved the big bull sculpture 👍
My backyard is my park becasue I am living at 40 thousands sqauare feet lot. but a lot of yard work to take care it.
Wow TH-cam allowed s video that shows something nice about China 😮
No anti social behaviour, drug or alcohol abuse. Safe and clean will make people use the parks.
Enjoy your share ❤
The Chinese are really embracing the nature 😮
Hong Kong parks are the best clean ,safe, easy to get to, full of friendly locals 😊
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西海公园
四海公园，also my favorite!
Nice video