Hong Kong is Building a 2.5M Person City From Scratch
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Another great and informative video by Tomorrows Build
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@@bloodwargaming3662 guessing the same :D
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
I'm shocked that there are still farms in Hong Kong. I thought Hong Kong was just skyscrapers, Disneyland, and a couple of scattered parks and green spaces
It's actually 70% open parkland, and that's part of the problem.
if you are talking about this 1:57 let me tell you that it's BS, that's not HK.
I live here
@@rerikm 1:57 is the HK/Shenzhen border area, but 1:58 looks like Guilin.
Well, the main island is pretty much fully built to be fair
Thats the problem, most HK land's is actually 70% "natural parks" cant be used that needs protecting. Every time the previous gov't try to use some of the land it will immediately be contested by those "neutral" green groups.
The housing crisis is not funny, most especially for those who live in cages. My heart melted when I saw it and I wish I could solve the problem.
Dont worry china will.
The thing is, no matter how many houses you build. People will still live cages. Most of the buildings will be immediately occupied by mainland Chinese. It’s quite sad cause housing prices in Hong Kong is very expensive and most people who live in cages will not be able to afford
@@jyau06 Oh that sounds horrible but the version I heard was that many mainland Chinese emigrated to Hong Kong have to live in cages; Only the few billionaires like Jack Ma have enough wealth to live in those luxury houses (even they don't actually live there).
The reason is simple: years before HK government allows mainland immigration through investment, basically meaning that anyone can come to HK if they are rich enough (one saying was ~10 million HKD). Then the policy changed and now only students, intellectual talents and people for other common reasons (family/marriage, labour, etc.) can settle down in HK. These people definitely worsened the pressure of HK housing market, objectively speaking, but as far as I know, anyone not having a permanent residence should pay for an additional 15%-30% (can't remember clearly) tax for private housing, and won't be able to apply for public housing. So to simply put, HK government should have more than enough budget to develop a solution if mainland Chinese immigration investment was really that much to have heavy impact on the local citizens. Then what we really saw was more protests and the shutdown of 85000 plan and Lantau Tomorrow Vision.
BTW, I hope your blaming on mainland Chinese was not out of deliberation and maliciousness.
@@jyau06 You cannot attribute the housing problem to Chinese immigrants. Moreover, wealthy Chinese generally immigrate to places such as Singapore and the United States. The housing price problem in Hong Kong is that real estate developers kidnap the government to establish land environmental protection areas through democratic means, so that a large amount of land in Hong Kong cannot be constructed and developed. And he swallowed a large amount of land himself to quickly develop real estate construction. Real estate developers make a lot of money. This is the fundamental problem.
@ Cannot agree more with you, and Your post is the same version I heard of why HK housing issue.
Hong Kong is literally a real-life manifestation of the whole Cyberpunk / Bladerunner theme - high tech, low life
actaully is the other way around, the aesthetic of the genre is based on Hong Kong
You won't say that if you know that one of the iconic elements of cyberpunk (skyscraper slums) originates from HK: the Kowloon Walled City, which inspired the Ghost in the Shell. The walled city itself was dismantled in 1994 to end its lawless condition.
When someone mentioned cyberpunk im thinking about chongqing..
I thought you're talking about the Tomorrow Lantau Vision plan, that reclamation is the real thing from scratch, which Northern Urban is just re-planning existing Northern District with some more new develop plans.
True
Everything from China is a bluff
@@ailo8964 aww... Come on, don't be jealous
@@veryboliao hello wumao
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It's always crazy, seeing just how little of Hong Kong's land area has been developed, even in areas without heavy topography, such as the area on the Shenzhen border. One would certainly expect that land to have been put to use in such a competitive property market, and it may require some pretty heavy-handed coordination from the Lam administration and investors on the Mainland to make happen.
hong kong's government is a basically a for-profit real estate developer which is able to strain supply by limiting developable land. Wholesome government.
@@daikon711 Their whole "lease, not own" plan as it applies to ground property is pretty devious, lol.
If I were a Hongkonger, I'd probably rather just pay taxes, instead of the costs being snuck-in via other means.
There was such a plan around 1997 by the HK Chief Executive to provide much more residential housing to the market, but coupled with the unfortunately timed bubble breaking in Asia it caused the house price to crash, putting stress to the entire financial system through the bankruptcy of many middle class families on heavy mortgage. So the plan was prematurely aborted and the HK administration has pretty much made up their mind to never try that again. The original plan back then was to provide on average 85k new apartments each year to the market during a decade, and the number for this new plan is at a much less ambitious 30k, and even that I suppose is mostly pushed by the Chinese government to integrate the regional economy and ease the wealth inequality in HK, with the HK administration seemingly reluctant to change course just yet.
the government is funded by land sales, which incentivises it NOT to provide sufficient land for housing, which keep prices high. all the land is owned by the government, it's not competitive at all
"Hong Kong's ever popular Chief Executive"
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Carrie Lam needs to go!
Yea shes definitely pOpuLaR hahahahaha
Carrie Lam is the evilest puppet
@@shuwinglam5767 female empowerment!
@@fredericoduvel3092 More like witch empowement
Don't know why you include the fuel cost in Hong Kong. You don't need to drive in Hong Kong and the majority don't. Fuel taxes are high there and I'd guess that's partly to discourage driving because of the negative externalities which are amplified in a dense urban area.
All my rich relatives have cars and drivers. It's to keep the plebs off the road.
How do you think delivery trucks and buses and taxis run? Magic? There are like 2.3 million drivers in Hong Kong. Including fuel prices lets you compare living in one city to another.
@@geroutathat have you been to Hong Kong? The metro is super developed. I wouldn’t even want a car if someone would offer it for free, as I would never use it.
@@geroutathat My point is that fuel prices aren't that relevant for cost of living in Hong Kong because people don't, and don't need to drive to go about their daily business.
I assume that Hong Kong has tax relief for fuel used for businesses, but I'm not an expert on HK taxes. Even ignoring that, sure the fuel price will affect the prices of other goods due to transport, but really not by much. A doubling in fuel prices won't make everything at the supermarket twice as expensive, especially given that nothing has to travel that far by car in Hong Kong because it's a small place.
There are 2.3 million people with driving licenses in Hong Kong, but cars are only used for 7% of journeys there.
the cost of fuel isn't as much as a problem in comparison to the cost of parking.
Constructive feedback:
-When stating the house price it would be better to state the average price per square meter rather than the average price in total
-Gas prices should be compared to cost per liter rather than more expensive than in Sydney, same goes for the living costs compared to in New York.
Apart from that, love the content ^^
I'd also suggest removing adjectives such as "ever popular" Carrie Lam, that can be labelled as progapandistic. Objective information is suffice.
@@jascforfun7576 that one was a weird choice. I wasn't sure if they were trying to use sarcasm but either way it wasn't necessary.
@@jascforfun7576 Sarcasm.
plus: yearly income, not monthly... who does that
@@Valentin-oc5nh Everyone in Hong Kong does that lol. But yea given the intended audience this audience is intended for it might be useful to convert. Btw maybe use median instead of average for home prices and salaries? There are so many mansions and millionaires in HK that drive up the numbers that do not reflect what a normal citizen faces.
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The problem of HK’s hosing situation is more complicated than simply “not enough land”, since real estate can be use for investment purposes. (Not only locals but also people from the north side of the border.) I also wander if HKSARG will be likely abandon the Lantau vision plan.
True, a lot of unused land but just almost impossible to develop it mainly because of political pressure to keep the house price up among other factors
So basically they needs laws preventing outside investors owning property. I think the same for anyone wanting to buy more than 2 houses. 75% increase minimum
@@PatheticTV 2047. It'll be there
Indians are buying up tung chung.
@@CoryPchajek Meanwhile nearby Singapore charges additional taxes if a property developer fails to sell all units in a condominium within 5 yrs of it's land being bought for its construction, to make it harder for developers to hoard units, which also makes developers more risk-adverse e.g. less willing to buy bigger plots of land to build bigger developments (which might take more time to build)
Correction: Avg house price is more like $1m USD for a 400-500 squared feet flat in a dense high rise. There is no "house" in HK except for the super rich 0.01%.
HK's population did NOT grow by 8.9% in 2019. That is massively incorrect.
I lived and worked in Hong Kong in 2020, planning to go back next year. Hong Kong can be expensive BUT if you know where to shop and if you don't mind a small living space you'll be living comfortably in a vibrant and exciting city. (saving a healthy amount) Before I went I used to watch videos making me believe I'd struggle. The truth is Hong Kong is expensive if your lifestyle is expensive.
I tend to agree, but eventually downgrading your life quality is not a sustainable option, there is still issues need to be addressed.
How small was your home and how much were you paying? I’m not sure you could live affordably there making less than 20 dollars an hour. In other cities around the world this is possible but Hong Kong is on a different level of expensive.
@@someguy255 My home was 220sq feet and I paid 11,500 HKD pm. My income is 44,000HKD. (5650 USD) I am a teacher. I am able to easily save 10,000 HKD a month. (1300 USD) Coming from South Africa this is a massive improvement in the quality of my lifestyle. Of course this will differ from person to person. I consider this a comfortable and affordable lifestyle. I hate house keeping so really a small studio apartment with all the amenities and shops closeby grants me a lot of time to explore and do my hobbies which I consider to be of great value.
And you can pretty much eat out every day and stay well below budget. The public transport is amazing and cheap. Most of the time the things you need are within walking distance.
@@humblehobbit you can rent a 1000 sqf 2 bedroom apartment for that kind of money in ANY developed country. But of course if you just compare it with South Africa then I guess few places can get worse than that.
Hong Kong looks incredible but I absolutely would not live there, far too cramped!
@zdrtgbnjimhtrx Old infrastructure, hot weather except winter (which feels like spring), worst living condition in all developed places in Asia (that includes most Chinese costal cities), street view that looks straight out of an 80s movie.
@@vincentdesun I think the street view is subjective here.. some people like that cyberpunk feeling.
@@vincentdesun Well Hong Kong had its infrastructure boom in the 70s to 80s during British rule so its expected tons of old buildings from that time can be seen, same for the West, Europe and any other place that had their buildings built centuries ago. China is a different story since their buildings are built within this century which makes them more modern compared to other places, I don't think any government would wanna demolish an already fully established city with tons of inhabitants and activities just to make their skyline look more up to date.
There are lot of construction happening between Hongkong and shenzhen called Qianhai area. You can literally see plenty of futuristic skyscrapers already taken shape.
Qianhai is IN Shenzen haha. Besides the area in Hongkong is not fully built towards the border with China.
Fantastic video. I wish it was 40 minutes long. Informative!
Hongkong is one of China’s greatest cities.
Not really. Boring as hell and nothing much to offer. The people are rude too.
As a Hong Kong-er, this is something which has to be done.
That’s not just “into the billions”, that is likely more than 100 billion.
My first thought as well
I would say at least a trillion to build a new city, transportation and roads
@@JohnnyFuturePast well, I dona think they are talking about owning all the residential buildings and such. Being Hong Kong, its almost certainly a public private cooperative. But still, just the municipal services: hospitals, police and fire, institutional buildings, roads, municipal water systems, municipal electricity, and metro and rail .. for example just the underground metro is at least 1 billion per kilometer. It is literally the most expensive place in the world to build it
Maybe 100 trillion
@@leezhieng hah. look at it this way. The cost of the Mtr (metro) alone, if only 10km, in hong Kong would be well over $10b usd. 10km of metro is simply not sufficient for a city of 2.5m people. It’s gonna be more like 60. So before you even get out of transportation, 2/3rds of your $100b budget is gonna be gone.
It’s incredible to be on the border of Hong Kong and Shenzen.
You are standing in a crowded, high rise urban area looking out over farmland and tiny huts…
I mean, it's just basically another plot of expensive land with soon to be expensive housing or commercial cost, or high rent.
That a significant number won't be able to afford
I like the land better as fields.
Exactly
That thing looks horrible
sure but are you willing to live in a cage like a breed sow on a battery farm, as thats how 15% of HKers have to live.
human needs> aesthetics
@@emmanueld.5875 aesthetic is a human need
@@goyonman9655 Food, shelter, housing, water are human needs. Everything after that is wants
Would love a video on the housing crisis in Mumbai. The cost of an average home in the city is over 70x per capita income and not getting better anytime soon.
Hong Kong is a property scam,
It's basically cheap as in equal to NY price but since a lot of hedge funds owns property and houses as insurance for lone and inflation .
With billions of dollars on line .. the price are high .if this transition is rapid it will be a big crash of wealth .
0:20 "Hong Kong's ever popular chief executive" 🤣🤣🤣 the sarcasm!!!
I feel like all the news and vidoes covering HK and how it expensive it is tend to ignore the fact that it is indeed a free port. The tax burden compared to other cities is minimal. There is no sales tax. Income tax is also much lower. There is a reason why it's a shopping hub. The government will need to get money from somewhere some how to maintain the services of the city. In this case HK chose real estate and gets a good portion of its budget from land sales. The high cost of living space is real, but at the same time the disposable income and buying power is also higher. So it all evens out.
Yeah heard the city was hit by protests when the gov't tried introducing consumption taxes ~10-15 years ago. Which is quite a big chunk of revenue lost I guess (nearby Singapore's gov't gets almost 1/3 of its revenue from it)
The Pearl River Delta is a crazy metropolis!
The new housing won’t be needed. Funny that the author didn’t mention that 2020 population has already decreased for the first time in decades and that 2021 is set to be worse. Reasons include Covid, Chinese crackdown, etc. Financiers are moving out of HK to Singapore. Problem will be sorted well before 2049
financiers are moving out but capitals keep moving in
Capital still flowing in. People making money don't really care as long as the make their money hence the biggest Tesla factory is in China
This project is not for those who don't believe in it. It's built for the folks who see beyond the bygone days and have faith in the overall improvements of the society.
The city above Zhuhai is called Zhongshan (not Zhaoqing). It is named after Sun Yat-sen. I'm from that city so its very disappointed to see the name wrong.
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Shenzhen has now become more interesting in almost every aspect, I hope that China's investments can save HK, both are beautiful cities tho.
As tourist I rather stay at Hong Kong Island (time square) than Shenzhen
Poor rural Hongkong. Its charm will be forever gone.
HK is a nice place for the rich.
HK is 5% vacant, an 18 year high. Sounds to me like there's no shortage, it's just an affordability issue. And I'll wager that the housing for 2.5 million people is being built for speculators and mainland Chinese, not unhoused HK residents.
Oddly why HK govt want to do that because they are protecting and aiding rich people to make more money while most of these rooms will be sold to the chinese instead to the Hong Kongers that's still couldn't get their resources they needed. HKers still won't get what they need after HK did these building.
Actually there are more Hong Kongers settling in Shenzhen than vise versa. It's neighbor city has much more opportunity than Hongkong and it's currently sucking Hong Kong's talent. Oh and most Hong Kong's celebrities have moved to live in Shanghai. Wonder why?
@@vincentdesun you forgot one thing. HK became so boring not because of Hong Kongers, it's because of stupid HK govt controlled by pro-beijing and corporations, that allow too many luxury brands and pharmacy, and jewelry stores that HK don't want except the chinese that constantly going to HK and buy up most of HK resources that most Hong Kongers could barely get or afford. It was chaos. And now even more chaos that many Hong Kongers are literally leaving HK and never go to china again due to what they did to Hong Kongers by assaulting them for having different opinions.
Thanks for trying
See? Your point still doesn't solve my points. Lol.
Didn't know about that before now, but that was interesting
Why someone would live in that Urban hell of a concrete jungle...
Mostly because of jobs but yeah I hear you.
Because the alternative is living under an authoritarian regime. Emigrating isn't an easy thing to do, especially when your entire family live somewhere.
Hong Kong is actually awesome in terms of access to nature. One 10 min subway ride and you’re at the beach. One tram ride and you’re on top of a mountain. Two hours plane ride to most of the world’s population.
@@Kenttheclark you don't think China going to change all that?
@@louk597 change what? China has owned Hong Kong for nearly a quarter century now-I was there on that fateful day in 1997. These housing issues are internal to Hong Kong and have been festering since before its return to China. If you watch the video, even China is getting tired of Hong Kong’s lack of progress on this issue.
Always fascinating to see aerial nighttime (daytime too) shots of the cityscapes in China and Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is China, so the correct phrase is "In Hong Kong and the rest of China"
@@vincentdesun I agree with you, Hong Kong should be part of China. But for Taiwan, its a no no.
@@roborbiettinoisgone392 if you think Taiwan belongs to China, you’re basically also implying America belongs to uk
@@roborbiettinoisgone392 UN recognizes Taiwan as a province of China though.
@@roborbiettinoisgone392 so now we are preparing to take Taiwan back before 2030. At that time, they can only accept it by peace or being crashed by force
hmm for some reason i doubt the part about long court issues with the farmers who own that land
Yes...very sad to see what China's dictators have done to the once free people of Hong Kong.
Why do you say that? Property redevelopment has a long, battle-scarred history in Hong Kong and given its laws, it will continue to be that way. Rural landowners are notoriously influential in local politics, see the Rural Committee which has a lot of big players backing them.
@@canto_v12 Enjoy your CCP blood money for commenting troll.
@@canto_v12 lets hope it will continue to be that way
@@Bland-79 Why don't you tell me which part of what I said is false. Otherwise who's really the troll here?
The real reason behind Hong Kong's lack of affordable houses has nothing to do with the overpopulation. Anyway, gasoline could be rather expensive: if you live there just don't buy a car. Easy peasy.
could you do a video about Vancouver and its developing plans. For instance North-East False Creek
The problem is not just not enough land. Land policies by the government also pay a big part.
Some how I feel like the new city won’t be any cheaper than Hong Kong…
The real pain of HK's real estate is that all housing (apartment units in fact) are TINY. Much smaller than anywhere else in the world with the same cost. Although I'm not familiar with the detail of this plan but I hope the new apartments in this area will be built bigger.
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Those cage houses where so heart breaking to see :'(
FYI, the map showed in 4:39 have a mistake. The site marked as "zhao qing" is not zhao qing, is "zhong shan" actually.zhao qing is in the west northern of guang dong.
Have you ever stopped to about how we humans are the smartest animals yet we build our own cages in a multitude of ways? Our homes are cages, our currency, our borders, our laws, and even our way of thinking.
When I was a kid I remember Hong Kong had a wall between it and mainland China to keep out illegal migration fron main land Chinese. Of course this was back in the '80s.
Not only that but Shenzhen was all rice farms and lowrise buildings .
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4:02 That's Macau, not Hong Kong. Hong Kong does not have Portuguese shop signs.
China's building the Greater Bay Area, easier to live in China and hop over to Hong Kong for work and head back in the evening
Big city living terrifies me. I thought Portland, Oregon was crowded--I can't imagine having to live in any city like HongKong.
We all don't live downtown. The outskirts are reasonably spaced. BTW, 60% of HK areas are greenery with tons of hiking trails
The issue is property owners in HK wouldn't want this to succeed, their property value would go down
who cares about the cost of fuel in hong kong, have you seen how good the public transport is? it is outstanding!
They have been protesting through 2021 as well.
Only 6 year waiting list for a home? Sounds nice.
0:59 yuen long not yuan long
4:36 guangzhou not guangzhew
You were talking about building a new city then you jumped to high cost if property, dies it even tally ..
This is more like day after tomorrow’s build
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I really liked this video. It really shares the issues that Hong Kong has without dragging the politics into it. Hong Kong was desperately needing relief in many of it's industries such as Real estate. The new city will take a lot of time to build, which will probably show us as a "ghost city" for now, but in years to come people will migrate. Why? Put a high level prestigious school there and the students will move to go to school there. Property will be cheaper, and an entire generation of children will grow up and stay there.
Maybe it is a good thing more young people are leaving HK. That way there will be less people and less competition for housing
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It needs to be renamed to CCP is building a 2.5M Person City from Scratch
Would like to look at the detailed figures regarding this - any sources?
Where does the food come from if the farms are now cities
t r a d e
Not now where tens of thousands are fleeing Hong Kong !
Hong Kong is no longer in a recession. GDP rose 7.8% in Q1 2021. And population has dropped this year
Hey!! That's almost the average of where I live too!! Ohhh....Yeah, I can't afford a house either :(
Amazing Hong Kong
I been to Kong Kong many times but China’s greater grip on Hong Hong is concern as well as the suppression on free speech.
Especially suppression on protesters throwing petrol bombs and bashing on people who don't agree with them.
@@Elfangorlanzhou If it weren't for those protestors Hong Kong and freedom of the press, would have been another Tiananmen square massacre. The Filthy CCP will suppress Hong Kong's freedoms for profit, a very, very sad sight to see. Hong Kong has more culture than all of mainland China, hopefully it won't be lost forever.
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muppet. China's "grip" on China. Its a singular sovereign entity.
@@sisyphusvasilias3943 so you hate Hong Kongers for being Hong Kongers. Lol
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With a ton of undeveloped land and very little in the way of permission to expand the city into that land, the valuations in HK are largely manufactured and manipulated to an extent. That said, it's both beautiful and a case study of cutting-edge efficiencies on how to manage urban movement and livability.
Goodbye to the nature....
Good video 😎👍
Wow theyre gonna build more building n not rebuild the empty buildings they have. All the vegetation n beautiful landscape. They need to fix that
Less cars and less car dependency. Also, let them build the city on the farm land, but make it such that farm land, be it via new farming technologies, aren't lost, but gained and say, producing triple the produce.
I once heard that in Hong Kong gas fuel tax is surprisingly high, so the private car transportation can be limited, and citizens would then prefer public transportation. I don't have a car so I cannot confirm this, but from my experience, MTR (Hong Kong metro system) worked very well. One never need a car in HK if he can get familiar with MTR and local bus services.
hong kong does not have car dependency lmao
The next 20 years is going to be so weird
Literally just taught this to G8! Come on ! Keep up….I’ll save for next year tho lol
Trust me i believe in dreamers. Nothing undoable
London needs to build two of these.
London is too full of old bastards that refuse anything in their neighbourhood to be taller than 3 storeys
@@activeone Well preserving history I guess
@@haechiwr Apart from a few discrete areas, London is a incoherent mess as it is. I really don't see the issue. A place like London should be striving to be the fastest-moving, most dynamic place in the world, and a part of that is changing to reflect market demands and keeping costs as low for businesses as possible. If people want a nice quiet life in a place where things don't change much maybe they should move to rural Northumberland or something?
Cost of gas is irrelevant in HK, where most people don't drive.
Anyone who knows anything about Hong Kong would oppose this. HK is 90% green spaces, only the CCP would be arrogant enough to force a change like this on the HK people, and only for profit.
Bingo. HK govt which is controlled by corporations and pro-Beijing lawmakers that don't care about Hong Kongers, they are doing this to make more money and less room available for Hong Kongers. It's all a scam, the same way they did with the stupid expensive bridge that only benefit to to people that have cars which is very difficult to have in HK.
@@baixiao21sino More than likely all of the new buildings would be occupied by migrant mainlanders, in an effort by Beijing to make HK assimilate faster. It's sickening.
If China wanted that it would have done so 30 years ago.
@@canto_v12 you clearly don't know a thing about Hong Kong's history.
@@canto_v12 china still haven't for more than 2 decades. You just admitted that you have no idea. Lol
Subscribed. Great video
Is 'free hong kong' really a message for more housing?
most expensive city but i'll bet alot of those middle-class condo's are sitting empty as they plan to build many, many more of them..
HK has more than enough space, just centralized planning controls for housing makes it expensive
"Ever popular Carrie Lam" lol
So...anyone else examine those shots of all the windows, looking for shenanigans?
Excellent report..I just wonder for how long this is going to last - certainly not sustainable - even more that current economic and political dependencies with China could lead to further issues. This is a bubble that may burst anytime.
0:22 "Hong Kong's ever-popular Chief Executive, Carrie Lam", LOL. Subtle.
I hope it isn’t built, we will lose a massive green belt in the city.
Same, and with so many wasteful "deserted cities" in China the population should just be encouraged to fill them instead of paving over even more country side.
This was very short. Almost pointless in making it
I truly wish that they speed up the development of a new city to relieve overcrowding and housing problem in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is rich and so is China.
They have all the money to build a new city.
mhm more like China is building a 2.5m city, at least from what happened there last year
Because of the British colonization, Hong Kong missed China's land reform. After 1997, because of one country, two systems, the capital-controlled Hong Kong government was unwilling to develop Hong Kong's surplus land. Most of the problems in Hong Kong society can be solved by a land reform. I hope that the Hong Kong government can break away from the control of capital as soon as possible.
That how many year it takes nyc to clean there streets and subways
Whoa at least they have farms