It's been a while since I have been to China to wonder around (besides a very short work trip) but I am like you Gweilo , I think some progress is good but it's nice to have some old character there too.
Those new buildings are nothing different from most buildings around the world. The city is losing its identity and tradition. So, I don’t like this kind of progress
Well, I miss the childhood memory but I don't miss the buildings at all. I remembered the leaky roof, and we have to use buckets to catch the rain on the rainy days. The oily kitchen with thick layers of oil everywhere, on the wall, on the bottles. No hot water, so have to boil hot water before bathing and fill up big bathtubes manually. No toilets room. Cat chasing mice at midnight, causing big noise. You probably miss it because you forgot about the house work. I like the architecture thus, but the living condition is so bad.....
@@diagolunzuo6225Identity can be rebuilt. If you looked Japan, a lot of their traditional-looking buildings are actually built after the economic boom, but everyone visiting Japan would feel like the country retained its identity pretty well. Rebuilding architectural identity will come the day when people actually appreciate architecture.
You live in one of the most undeveloped provinces in China... It's where things are still changing so quickly everyday. No surprise. In many developed regions, the governments and people have started to really preserve cultures, historical buildings, etc. Also the strategy every government takes is different. Some provinces do much better than the others. Sometimes it's just about people, whether they're aware of their cultures and identities or not. If you had a chance, I recommend you to travel to Sichuan. It really is a place of rich culture and history and people make a lot of efforts to preserve and conserve local cultures, cultural heritages, religions and antiques.
Also, Chinese buildings made of wood don't last long, it's always about do we have a graph of the building's architectural design so that the whole building can one day be built back. The most important thing is, we can't lose those craftsmen who know how to build and design a local traditional structure, make paints, make tiles, carve or engrave traditional decorations and so on. They're the people who are actively preserving the culture or everything they do will only be written on paper documents with no one really knows how those things work.
you need to cover your nose, there should be a metal strip on top, just press it until it fits your face (around the nose area) so when you exhale your glass wont be fogged up.
It is not just China, but almost everywhere in the world. In some countries, the whole country is closed or work from home except in essential services.
Went to China about 25 years ago, what a nightmare back then And now.......wow We cannot slow down and stay in one place forever, things need to change and improve all the time. Still a lot of room to improve, and I hope to see how China will lead the rest of the world before I die.
@Gweilo60，try to use a thin normal tissue to make a long rectangular paper strip putting on your nose at where ur plastic strip of mask on, the foggy issue of ur glass will disappear
When to guangxi in 1988, 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2020 (got back before the outbreak). Saw changes each time I was back. The most change was when I went back beginning of this year. Totally blew me away with all the high rises, high speed trains and cars. Yep, I remember it took 6-7 hours to get to Guilin from Nanning. Buses are a thing of the past now. I miss the old Guangxi China! Good direction for the country though
I feel like that when I went to Spain. Everyone lives in a apartment within 10mins of Valencia. There’s supermarkets and pharmacies at every corner. Every third store is a bar/cafe.
For folks like us, we count our blessings, to have been able to enjoy the simple and old culture of Nanning! I'm thankful for being here during those days... they will alway be close in my heart for China. The Nanning of today, has new pages of happiness to enjoy. My son can play with his daughter doing fun and exciting things. The homes outside of our residence have been there for 42 years... yesterday their utilities were cut as they remove the window guards for demolitions. We were notified that our home has been reassigned for replacement in the next 10 years. They allowed us to withdraw our bid to move into our 2nd home next year. With the changing times it's welcomed. Yes, that means our western sunshine will be blocked off in the next few years. All for progress. LOL, I understand seniors of yester years as it approaches me... Even the rural town in America that has our downtown farm, the development progression will be upon us within the next year. I'll continue to farm it allowing locals to enjoy what once was... later my granddaughter can decide its future. Either way, wealth will be on her side. The wonders of life and ever changing demands turn to memories. Enjoy life!
Gweilo, your just like me, but I’m to embarrassed to say it, everybody wants things to stay the way they are, but , it’s impossible, especially when your adopted country is inventive as yours. You’ve just given me a reason to look positively at my country, that’s not happened in years. As you were explaining about the time difference as buildings change, I thought in Britain the planning procedures take years, and I mean years and years to occur. Then you find that for some stupid reason, the change didn’t happen, then it’s going to happen we learn, then the interest rates go up, and everything is shelved for another two or three years. That goes on, and eventually the new build doesn’t happen. So my environment doesn’t change much, I’m seventy now, and it’s changed, but not that much, so thank you for giving me a reason to at least be neutral to my home city London.
In China, many old houses are in disrepair, the design is not reasonable, the life is not convenient, the Chinese people also want to live comfortably, this is a trend. However, the Chinese government now attaches great importance to the protection of ancient buildings, and some ancient buildings will be protected.
Such is life everywhere all over the world. But it's much more environmental friendly in China. Electric cars, electric bikes, solar panels, recycling everywhere. It is also much greener.
Hi, Kweilo! Are there any homeless in naming? As I was so surprised by so many homeless in US that I saw I TH-cam! I think if a Govt who could guarantee the basic living for his men, he is a good & responsible Govt, no matter what kind of system he is!
The elimination of poverty creates hardship for the rich. No sympathy Gweilo 60. I miss those days myself. Everything in China was so easy for a Westerner. 但是中国我爱你。When was the last time a country raised itself from poverty? We crushed them all. China is the only hope of humanity.
Maybe China should consider how England developed. It has its new modern areas but holds strongly to culture and heritage even in the cities. The street you are walking down for example I see a lot of brick and concrete buildngs that could be restored nicely. Progress for this area would be putting those horrible power lines underground and improving the drainage, footpaths and roads. There you have progress without high rises and it maintains the look and feel of a place rather than a sterile new devlopement.
In case North American viewers who have never been to China do not grasp what he is talking about, he is actually saying the Chinese city Nannning originally with the scale of Phoenix, Arizona of China has grown to the size and development stage of Los Angeles . How about that?
Minor complaint: Zero known/reported cases. Our perception or knowledge of reality, is not the same thing as reality itself. "I don't know", "I don't understand" - you don't hear such phrases very often these days (at least back here on the west coast of Canada), kudos to you for keeping ideas like this alive, so that some day people may once again discover them. Top notch video as always Gweilo!
@@Gweilo60 Keep changing the world to the best of your ability Gweilo, it will pay off for all of us eventually. 👍 Maybe you'll find this interesting. I belong to a variety of meetup groups. In one of the politically focused ones, where people hold strong opinions on China and what not, but also pride themselves on their "rationality" and "evidence-based thinking" (not like those other blindly ideological people, no siree Bob!), I've shared a few of your videos as a kind of "on the ground, gonzo journalism (HST), see it with your own eyes" type of thing. These people will watch a video (or so they claim), and then immediately after proceed to "tell it like it REALLY is" in China, when literal video evidence absolutely proves that what they are saying is utterly and simply incorrect. And these are otherwise genuinely intelligent people!!! Something very unusual and scary is happening within the minds of people living in Western societies. This feels like a dangerous situation to me. People talk about Trump like he's a crazy dictator, a "literal Nazi". These people should read some actual history, to see what actual crazy dictators are like. The USA and much of the Western world is primed for someone truly evil to walk in wearing a sheep's clothing, and these neutered minds wouldn't have a chance of seeing it.
Growing is a painful and happy process, both to people and countries. You will learn to cherish the things you have lost during this nonstop process, whether you like those things or not before. And also will pride for yourself with the achievements you have made during this process which may last for a life long. Don't forget what you were before, then extract strength form those happy or painful things to push you going. Remember the old memories, and they will be the power and wisdom for you to face the future. My, a young little people's view.
I was grow up in Beijing, I still remember 30 years ago, in BeiJing captial city of China. Every tuesaday afternoon there is a blackout, due the shortage of electricity. now look at China well done. congratz to all Chines people.
My country government has just issued property tax couple yrs ago. And I see many old building demolished then gave way to investors and become skyscrapers. In few years one can never imagine what they had been. I dob't think it's essential but world go like that.
The big infrastructure( like high way, high speed train, metro... ) is for all Chinese people. So everyone is enjoying the benefit. That is the Gov direction and focus. The safety is also improved dramatically compared to 20-30 years ago. That is the China now. High dynamic changing and shaping everyone's view and life in everyday. Great job! China!
a lot of things changes in China right now. So fast that only a few years will make a huge different. But I am a little worried about the quality of those high rise building. Development is twingled with all kinds of issues that will cause a huge effect on the society. From Xi`an China.
You don't need to feel sad for people who still in the village in the city because when the developer comes to them and buys their land for more buildings, the compensation could be insane, one house with a little yard = one-third of a high rise, something like that. So the owner of a humble cabin ten years ago now may have been a millionaire already, richer than most ordinary people in the western world.
It really depends on the perspective wise. Yes, definitely you want progress but at the same time keeping the character of what the location use to be is even harder to decide... don't know if there can be some balance between old and new....
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Its hard to watch. Be nice to see cultural centers like in Japan that makes extra cash to try n keep the individuality But also high rises mean less sprawl. More space for parks. Maybe the locals could turn the last villages into attractions. Like our grade listed buildings or old fashioned tourist villages. Fancied them up to keep them for the future?
Gweilo's view on progress is a sign of aging 😄👍we all age and at times we look back on how things were. It is sad that such progress could make such a massive change in cities and losing their old elements. I guess we need to constantly learn and adapt to make ourselves more suitable to the society. Great video as always👊
First time I went to China was during the Chinese new year 2008 in Shenzhen, it was my best visit there i loved it But I was also disappointed too as I was expecting everyone to know everyone but it was Not the case at all friendly safe welcoming yes it was but the China I wish i could visit was the Image I had after seen the film the INN OF THE 6TH HAPPINESS that was the closeness of people i was wishing for, it was better in that way in Shenyang at least my Ping new most of the people in her block of flats but Nothing as I was wishing for, human closeness kindness safety n welcoming its what for me is the most important thing on earth, sadly disappearing fast all over the world
I also miss the old Nanning (Non-ning), first time I was there 2001 last time 2018; Nanning is not culturally interesting anymore. So many of the places my wife and I used to like in China are disappearing quickly, sad. We use to love to visit YangShuo in the early to mid-2000's great place! Use to see a lot of Europeans/Westeners with backpackers walking down the cobblestone streets shopping and bartering with the locals; open air cafes playing reggae music, people kicking back having a beer and food; you were able to get a nice clean room for $6 a night, those days are long gone (sad). Now it is so crowded with Chinese you don't see Europeans or westerns anymore, the reggae cafes had been replaced with super loud disco bars it is a place I would highly recommend you avoid.
In late 80s and early 90s, it took my family a whole day(6am to 6pm) to reach Beihai from Nanning, every now and then the bus was on some bumpy ridges of paddy fields
Not mentioned the sign on the left just around the corner says: people gathering/party outside are shameless . .These two sentences in Chinese are arranged with hyperbole rhetoric like parallelism ，espcially shameless/无耻之辈 & desperados/亡命之徒
hi bro. it means people don't care life themselves. it's only a pun in Chinese. your detective translation may scare foreigners. you know what CCP image in their brain washed head.
I was in China in 2003 too...... yes.... Nanning is the capitol of Guanxi, if you want to see that stuff like in 2003, go to the smaller cities. We know 2003 was different, smartphones were uncommon and WeChat Wepay didnt exist. It's like the guy talking about the 1980s saying how there was not commercial internet...... what's the point? Technology is changing, we know. Real estate has changed too, we know.... 1980s San Francisco alot different prices than 2020.....
Don't get confused with the numbers. Yes, Guangxi had 254 infections, 252 recovered and two died. They are the local infections in China. They also have a current list of 3 infections, which two imported and one asymptomatic from Hubei. These are not yet recovered. They are not including these in the total numbers. To be clear about these Asymptomatic people. They may have previously had the infection and recovered, but still carry DNA evidence of the virus in their system. It is still not known if such people are infectious.
It is progress, one coincides with the social characters of the current time. I live in the U.K, so I understand your feeling about the difference between houses and flats.
It's like that everywhere. Beihai has changed in exactly the same way. I'm like you, Curt. I believe when all of 'old China' is gone, it will be a sad day. Already I have lost the old lady on the corner who sold smoked duck and rabbit, and made change from her apron with chopsticks! She's gone, and now everywhere you go you pay with your damn smart-phone......... On the other hand, my wife thinks it's all just great! She is not very sentimental for old things. That's probably the biggest difference we have. Then again, she grew up during the Cultural Revolution. It was very hard times. Very poor times.
@@cityofpawnee I came back before my wife, and she got stuck. She is still there. She tells me that Beihai is 95% back to normal. The only people that got sick from the virus were people that left Wuhan before it was locked down, and came to Beihai. The only person to die from the virus was a very old and weak person from Wuhan.
Glenn W. The same feeling I have with you is I couldn’t buy some traditional, cheap, delicious, manual made food or small products. They are vanished. I’m so sad since I’m chinese, I could feel it strong and miss them in my memory. Not only for those food and products but also for the vendors who were making those business. They are kind, friendly and always satisfy our needs. I care about the service more since those vendors are boss themselves, they know how to keep customer relationship and they will remember you when you visit them next time. While service now is just a job provided by the servant. Sometimes i feel I just spend much more money but get the similar goods and poor service.
Living in Guangzhou... tbh, as a Chinese, I miss old China too. But it has to change, which is the only way to make everyone live better life. some really suffers
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4:20 That is a vegetable garden right in the city....amazing, still there. Bet a lot like that has gone with the wind. The Chinese, especially the old folks in days gone by, will make use of any piece of land to plant vege. Not only in China, but also in South East Asia, wherever they are found. They will sell the extra harvest in the village market, really fresh and tasty too. Miss that also.
Well, I miss the childhood memory but I don't miss the buildings at all. I remembered the leaky roof, and we have to use buckets to catch the rain on the rainy days. The oily kitchen with thick layers of oil everywhere, on the wall, on the bottles. No hot water, so have to boil hot water before bathing and fill up big bathtubes manually. No toilets room. No gas, to cook you have to burn coals outside. Cat chasing mice at midnight, causing big noise. You probably miss it because you forgot about the house work. I like the architecture, but the living condition is so bad..... The food is cheap before the farmers in the villages gets penny for their labours. They still grow their food the old fashioned way, i.e. by hand. The reason you are seeing the cost of housing became so expensive is because the villager don't want to live in the farms any more. Memory is a strange thing, and it can fool you. You always have things you misses. But ask old people around you whether they want to live the old life or new life. People have this tendency of wish things to be the same, and sorry, things are never going to be the same regardless of city development.
When you see the old things, you see yourself, happy and sad, lucky and silly, you see how quickly time goes by and how much you've been experiencing.... and the people you know. When you see old things, you get sentimental... Fuwuyuan, lai ping baijiu!
In fact, people who live in those villages will become billionaire once their house is demolished by high-rises. So jealous people like me work everyday but those uneducated people get rich.
You can move to some good villages if you love the lower landscape and sloppy lifes. While the cities grow, village grow too. They are much more convinient and cleaner than before.
It is an interesting argument regarding the attitude of ecologists vs industrialists. I think the government is slowly promoting the protection and preservation of old buildings since its intrinsic value is quite high especially in a highly urban region like in Shanghai.
It's hard to coordinate people's desire of urbanization, improvement of life quality and keeping the primary nature. I left China in 2008 and when I went back in 2016 I was surprised too.
Thanks for sharing...It is the same all over the world. People who love the "old world" because they are the visitor, they don't live in it and don't have to suffer with daily sanitary issues etc. People who had lived in the old world love the newer and more hygienic convenience because they use it every day. That is, of course, if the new place is well kept and maintained.
@Purple Grape Uncle not really possible. Traditional styles revolve around building with wood or bamboo. Those materials don’t last long and can’t be large. Not to mention how quickly they start generating trash around the building. Whereas building with steel can’t really take on the forms of traditional styles due to the laws of physics.
I don't want to diminish your opinion, because there is some validity in terms of nostalgia ..... but just because the buildings have changed, the methods of travel have changed, the standards of living have changed ... I don't think it has necessarily changed the inherent culture of Chinese people. Even though there are millions of us who have immigrated to other western countries, many still follow he traditions of our heritage .. and that to me is the most intrinsic thing about being Chinese. Surroundings might change, but we remember where we've come from.
I literally have a Hometown in a northen city of Shanxi, which is my childhood paradise. However, i could not recognize even a single road when i went back after 15 years.
Locality is what you missed, but the local people need to improve their standard of life too, like drainage, construction of houses, hygiene and so forth. But at the same time, the price of inflation rises so fast, it doesn't match the rise of wages, it is sad, but all the city in the world grow like that in the past 20 years. In NY, in London, in Europe, in Asia, it's called greed .... I m just hoping the world would be changing after this Coronavirus and the big recession, deflation would come and hopefully the market could adjust to good price for value.
China's development is like a rocket, which is its "original sin". Chinese people sometimes find it incredible, let alone a foreigner. Even if you came to China ten years ago, you don't know her now.
The old buildings are still connected to an old sewerage system were residence can dump there wastes such as paint, cooking oils. New buildings waste water goes to a treatment plant to be treated before releasing it back into the environment.
@@Gweilo60 my wife says it’s because the people are all leaving the farms and villages and are moving to the big cities. Now China needs to import most of their food items, she says.
i know what you mean. the first time I was in China was 2004, meet my wife to be and fell in love. we would go have rice dumplings and the tables were out in the road, now they must keep all tables near the small resturant. understand the changes, but i see the old china disappearing. we would shop near a walmart, and close to it was a shopping area that looked like europe. have a great time, take care.
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Subway is a joke in Canada, Toronto spent 10 years to build a 5km extension.
It's been a while since I have been to China to wonder around (besides a very short work trip) but I am like you Gweilo , I think some progress is good but it's nice to have some old character there too.
I like to meet you one day. Now I’m here in Canada for 20 years. And you are I China for 17... life...
I don’t like the old buildings in China when I was a kid. As I gets old, I begin to miss all those old buildings in China.
you just missed all those memories, bro. people gets sentimental when older.
那种乡村的小房子现在基本上都拆得差不多了。
Those new buildings are nothing different from most buildings around the world. The city is losing its identity and tradition. So, I don’t like this kind of progress
Well, I miss the childhood memory but I don't miss the buildings at all.
I remembered the leaky roof, and we have to use buckets to catch the rain on the rainy days.
The oily kitchen with thick layers of oil everywhere, on the wall, on the bottles.
No hot water, so have to boil hot water before bathing and fill up big bathtubes manually.
No toilets room.
Cat chasing mice at midnight, causing big noise.
You probably miss it because you forgot about the house work.
I like the architecture thus, but the living condition is so bad.....
@@diagolunzuo6225Identity can be rebuilt. If you looked Japan, a lot of their traditional-looking buildings are actually built after the economic boom, but everyone visiting Japan would feel like the country retained its identity pretty well. Rebuilding architectural identity will come the day when people actually appreciate architecture.
You live in one of the most undeveloped provinces in China... It's where things are still changing so quickly everyday. No surprise. In many developed regions, the governments and people have started to really preserve cultures, historical buildings, etc. Also the strategy every government takes is different. Some provinces do much better than the others. Sometimes it's just about people, whether they're aware of their cultures and identities or not. If you had a chance, I recommend you to travel to Sichuan. It really is a place of rich culture and history and people make a lot of efforts to preserve and conserve local cultures, cultural heritages, religions and antiques.
Also, Chinese buildings made of wood don't last long, it's always about do we have a graph of the building's architectural design so that the whole building can one day be built back. The most important thing is, we can't lose those craftsmen who know how to build and design a local traditional structure, make paints, make tiles, carve or engrave traditional decorations and so on. They're the people who are actively preserving the culture or everything they do will only be written on paper documents with no one really knows how those things work.
you need to cover your nose, there should be a metal strip on top, just press it until it fits your face (around the nose area) so when you exhale your glass wont be fogged up.
It is not just China, but almost everywhere in the world. In some countries, the whole country is closed or work from home except in essential services.
Another great video! Keep going
Nice video, keep updating!
Thanks, will do!
Went to China about 25 years ago, what a nightmare back then
And now.......wow
We cannot slow down and stay in one place forever, things need to change and improve all the time.
Still a lot of room to improve, and I hope to see how China will lead the rest of the world before I die.
your english is so good! I love your accent, it's load and clear!
@Gweilo60，try to use a thin normal tissue to make a long rectangular paper strip putting on your nose at where ur plastic strip of mask on, the foggy issue of ur glass will disappear
When to guangxi in 1988, 1998, 2001, 2005 and 2020 (got back before the outbreak). Saw changes each time I was back. The most change was when I went back beginning of this year. Totally blew me away with all the high rises, high speed trains and cars. Yep, I remember it took 6-7 hours to get to Guilin from Nanning. Buses are a thing of the past now. I miss the old Guangxi China! Good direction for the country though
I feel like that when I went to Spain.
Everyone lives in a apartment within 10mins of Valencia. There’s supermarkets and pharmacies at every corner. Every third store is a bar/cafe.
I love your videos. Thank you
For folks like us, we count our blessings, to have been able to enjoy the simple and old culture of Nanning! I'm thankful for being here during those days... they will alway be close in my heart for China.
The Nanning of today, has new pages of happiness to enjoy. My son can play with his daughter doing fun and exciting things.
The homes outside of our residence have been there for 42 years... yesterday their utilities were cut as they remove the window guards for demolitions.
We were notified that our home has been reassigned for replacement in the next 10 years.
They allowed us to withdraw our bid to move into our 2nd home next year.
With the changing times it's welcomed.
Yes, that means our western sunshine will be blocked off in the next few years.
All for progress.
LOL, I understand seniors of yester years as it approaches me...
Even the rural town in America that has our downtown farm, the development progression will be upon us within the next year.
I'll continue to farm it allowing locals to enjoy what once was... later my granddaughter can decide its future.
Either way, wealth will be on her side.
The wonders of life and ever changing demands turn to memories.
Enjoy life!
You are such a good writer. Even though I'm a Chinese I do love what you wrote here. Thanks for that.
Gweilo, your just like me, but I’m to embarrassed to say it, everybody wants things to stay the way they are, but , it’s impossible, especially when your adopted country is inventive as yours. You’ve just given me a reason to look positively at my country, that’s not happened in years. As you were explaining about the time difference as buildings change, I thought in Britain the planning procedures take years, and I mean years and years to occur. Then you find that for some stupid reason, the change didn’t happen, then it’s going to happen we learn, then the interest rates go up, and everything is shelved for another two or three years. That goes on, and eventually the new build doesn’t happen. So my environment doesn’t change much, I’m seventy now, and it’s changed, but not that much, so thank you for giving me a reason to at least be neutral to my home city London.
In China, many old houses are in disrepair, the design is not reasonable, the life is not convenient, the Chinese people also want to live comfortably, this is a trend. However, the Chinese government now attaches great importance to the protection of ancient buildings, and some ancient buildings will be protected.
Is Nanning a different city from Nanking? Both names sound similar.
yeah，Nanking is a city in the southeast of China while Nanning is in the southwest
Such is life everywhere all over the world. But it's much more environmental friendly in China. Electric cars, electric bikes, solar panels, recycling everywhere. It is also much greener.
This makes me want to go to Nanning
This makes me want to stay in Nanning
Mr Gwello, I'm a Nanning boy live in Vancouver. Would love to sit down with you in the home town for a shot of baijiu. Enjoy your story telling.
Hi, Kweilo! Are there any homeless in naming? As I was so surprised by so many homeless in US that I saw I TH-cam! I think if a Govt who could guarantee the basic living for his men, he is a good & responsible Govt, no matter what kind of system he is!
The elimination of poverty creates hardship for the rich. No sympathy Gweilo 60. I miss those days myself. Everything in China was so easy for a Westerner. 但是中国我爱你。When was the last time a country raised itself from poverty? We crushed them all. China is the only hope of humanity.
The village is old but it is so clean. I don't see trash on the street at all.
good im glad
Old people hate change.
Maybe China should consider how England developed. It has its new modern areas but holds strongly to culture and heritage even in the cities. The street you are walking down for example I see a lot of brick and concrete buildngs that could be restored nicely. Progress for this area would be putting those horrible power lines underground and improving the drainage, footpaths and roads. There you have progress without high rises and it maintains the look and feel of a place rather than a sterile new devlopement.
I know Beijing has a lot of heritage areas but I'm not sure if other parts of China do in the same sense.
In case North American viewers who have never been to China do not grasp what he is talking about, he is actually saying the Chinese city Nannning originally with the scale of Phoenix, Arizona of China has grown to the size and development stage of Los Angeles . How about that?
Minor complaint: Zero known/reported cases. Our perception or knowledge of reality, is not the same thing as reality itself.
"I don't know", "I don't understand" - you don't hear such phrases very often these days (at least back here on the west coast of Canada), kudos to you for keeping ideas like this alive, so that some day people may once again discover them.
Top notch video as always Gweilo!
Thanks Trevor
@@Gweilo60 Keep changing the world to the best of your ability Gweilo, it will pay off for all of us eventually. 👍
Maybe you'll find this interesting. I belong to a variety of meetup groups. In one of the politically focused ones, where people hold strong opinions on China and what not, but also pride themselves on their "rationality" and "evidence-based thinking" (not like those other blindly ideological people, no siree Bob!), I've shared a few of your videos as a kind of "on the ground, gonzo journalism (HST), see it with your own eyes" type of thing.
These people will watch a video (or so they claim), and then immediately after proceed to "tell it like it REALLY is" in China, when literal video evidence absolutely proves that what they are saying is utterly and simply incorrect. And these are otherwise genuinely intelligent people!!!
Something very unusual and scary is happening within the minds of people living in Western societies. This feels like a dangerous situation to me.
People talk about Trump like he's a crazy dictator, a "literal Nazi". These people should read some actual history, to see what actual crazy dictators are like. The USA and much of the Western world is primed for someone truly evil to walk in wearing a sheep's clothing, and these neutered minds wouldn't have a chance of seeing it.
Growing is a painful and happy process, both to people and countries.
You will learn to cherish the things you have lost during this nonstop process, whether you like those things or not before.
And also will pride for yourself with the achievements you have made during this process which may last for a life long.
Don't forget what you were before, then extract strength form those happy or painful things to push you going.
Remember the old memories, and they will be the power and wisdom for you to face the future.
My, a young little people's view.
Rm 5.50 in Malaysia for Chinese mee soup.
I was grow up in Beijing, I still remember 30 years ago, in BeiJing captial city of China. Every tuesaday afternoon there is a blackout, due the shortage of electricity. now look at China well done. congratz to all Chines people.
I still remember this during my first visit to my relatives country village/estate
that is talking about more than 30 years ago, I was lived Beijing 20years ago, already very expensive and good there
shan2406 shan2406 my dad remembers that his college was full of rats in his bed
Yes. I still remember when I was a little boy in Beijing, use candle to do homework.
I remember the smelly subway station of Beijing in late 80s which reminds me of Paris w
My country government has just issued property tax couple yrs ago. And I see many old building demolished then gave way to investors and become skyscrapers. In few years one can never imagine what they had been. I dob't think it's essential but world go like that.
Gweilo got a little sentimental, time to drink baijiu.
Had the same thought.
yeah, you can always drink baijiu for whatever reason you got.
Don't encourage his alcoholism.
The big infrastructure( like high way, high speed train, metro... ) is for all Chinese people. So everyone is enjoying the benefit. That is the Gov direction and focus. The safety is also improved dramatically compared to 20-30 years ago. That is the China now. High dynamic changing and shaping everyone's view and life in everyday. Great job! China!
这次我要挑战一下没字幕哈哈~(This time I need to learn English without subtitles lol)
a lot of things changes in China right now. So fast that only a few years will make a huge different. But I am a little worried about the quality of those high rise building. Development is twingled with all kinds of issues that will cause a huge effect on the society. From Xi`an China.
You don't need to feel sad for people who still in the village in the city because when the developer comes to them and buys their land for more buildings, the compensation could be insane, one house with a little yard = one-third of a high rise, something like that. So the owner of a humble cabin ten years ago now may have been a millionaire already, richer than most ordinary people in the western world.
It really depends on the perspective wise. Yes, definitely you want progress but at the same time keeping the character of what the location use to be is even harder to decide... don't know if there can be some balance between old and new....
all the anti-china people gonna click this video because of the title lol
@Leon Chan what a lovely comment 👎
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Trump’d be pissed
It's good to bring the volume. 😂😂
Guangxi is my hometown, but I left my hometown for a better life, and I often miss it.
Tell me what is authentic and at which point in time considered original for a five thousand year civilization?
The streets definitely look old, but they are super clean
in america it will took 20 years to plan for a high speed train
and forever to implement
America is controled by Big Oil corps
Main reason Tesla is always under attack by stock shorters and FUDsters
@@WANDERER0070 Not in China I hope. 340k RMB long-range model 3 made in shanghai just went live today! Really good price.
High speed trains are not necessary nor feasible in America. Plus, every time a big city tries it....they spend billions, and never finish.
Its hard to watch. Be nice to see cultural centers like in Japan that makes extra cash to try n keep the individuality
But also high rises mean less sprawl. More space for parks. Maybe the locals could turn the last villages into attractions. Like our grade listed buildings or old fashioned tourist villages. Fancied them up to keep them for the future?
If you don't want your glasses to get foggy, rub dish washing fluid on your glasses and dry it with a tissue. It will stay translucent for a few days.
agree！
Gweilo's view on progress is a sign of aging 😄👍we all age and at times we look back on how things were. It is sad that such progress could make such a massive change in cities and losing their old elements. I guess we need to constantly learn and adapt to make ourselves more suitable to the society. Great video as always👊
Hahaha theres a banner behind you on the wall 1:10 says "people gathering for mahjong are ruthless and cruel" LOL
In fact, this is just a slogan about "keep away from gambling". Maybe it's just translation software to make it look interesting QwQ
Very insightful video.
First time I went to China was during the Chinese new year 2008 in Shenzhen, it was my best visit there i loved it But I was also disappointed too as I was expecting everyone to know everyone but it was Not the case at all friendly safe welcoming yes it was but the China I wish i could visit was the Image I had after seen the film the INN OF THE 6TH HAPPINESS that was the closeness of people i was wishing for, it was better in that way in Shenyang at least my Ping new most of the people in her block of flats but Nothing as I was wishing for, human closeness kindness safety n welcoming its what for me is the most important thing on earth, sadly disappearing fast all over the world
I also miss the old Nanning (Non-ning), first time I was there 2001 last time 2018; Nanning is not culturally interesting anymore. So many of the places my wife and I used to like in China are disappearing quickly, sad. We use to love to visit YangShuo in the early to mid-2000's great place! Use to see a lot of Europeans/Westeners with backpackers walking down the cobblestone streets shopping and bartering with the locals; open air cafes playing reggae music, people kicking back having a beer and food; you were able to get a nice clean room for $6 a night, those days are long gone (sad). Now it is so crowded with Chinese you don't see Europeans or westerns anymore, the reggae cafes had been replaced with super loud disco bars it is a place I would highly recommend you avoid.
In late 80s and early 90s, it took my family a whole day(6am to 6pm) to reach Beihai from Nanning, every now and then the bus was on some bumpy ridges of paddy fields
Street are clean in China even in village
China expert man. you really get along with this country for quite a time. no wonder. 😐
it's amazing to see how clean and litter free this old village is.
@01001011 if that's the case i approve lol
The sign on 1:20 says: people who plays MaJiang together are desperados. XD
lol so straightforward
Hahahahaha, I saw that and I laughed for one minute
Not mentioned the sign on the left just around the corner says: people gathering/party outside are shameless .
.These two sentences in Chinese are arranged with hyperbole rhetoric like parallelism ，espcially shameless/无耻之辈 & desperados/亡命之徒
hi bro. it means people don't care life themselves. it's only a pun in Chinese. your detective translation may scare foreigners. you know what CCP image in their brain washed head.
一起打麻将的是亡命之徒，哈哈哈，到位。
China is getting better， Chinese people are industrious
You can fold the upper white part inside, then the steam problem will be solved.
A bright man
I was in China in 2003 too...... yes.... Nanning is the capitol of Guanxi, if you want to see that stuff like in 2003, go to the smaller cities. We know 2003 was different, smartphones were uncommon and WeChat Wepay didnt exist. It's like the guy talking about the 1980s saying how there was not commercial internet...... what's the point? Technology is changing, we know. Real estate has changed too, we know.... 1980s San Francisco alot different prices than 2020.....
Yeah it changes
Don't get confused with the numbers. Yes, Guangxi had 254 infections, 252 recovered and two died. They are the local infections in China. They also have a current list of 3 infections, which two imported and one asymptomatic from Hubei. These are not yet recovered. They are not including these in the total numbers. To be clear about these Asymptomatic people. They may have previously had the infection and recovered, but still carry DNA evidence of the virus in their system. It is still not known if such people are infectious.
yes，so be careful
Love to move to china to stay long term.... love that place..amazing place.
Nice to see Gweilo appears like before the epidemic 😷 Regained his life!👍
It is progress, one coincides with the social characters of the current time. I live in the U.K, so I understand your feeling about the difference between houses and flats.
This is the law of competition in nature. A country's economy needs to be full of vitality without competition.
It's like that everywhere. Beihai has changed in exactly the same way.
I'm like you, Curt. I believe when all of 'old China' is gone, it will be a sad day. Already I have lost the old lady on the corner who sold smoked duck and rabbit, and made change from her apron with chopsticks! She's gone, and now everywhere you go you pay with your damn smart-phone.........
On the other hand, my wife thinks it's all just great! She is not very sentimental for old things. That's probably the biggest difference we have. Then again, she grew up during the Cultural Revolution. It was very hard times. Very poor times.
Are you in Beihai right now? How are things right now? I was born there and visited just a few months ago.
@@cityofpawnee I came back before my wife, and she got stuck. She is still there. She tells me that Beihai is 95% back to normal. The only people that got sick from the virus were people that left Wuhan before it was locked down, and came to Beihai. The only person to die from the virus was a very old and weak person from Wuhan.
Glenn W. The same feeling I have with you is I couldn’t buy some traditional, cheap, delicious, manual made food or small products. They are vanished. I’m so sad since I’m chinese, I could feel it strong and miss them in my memory. Not only for those food and products but also for the vendors who were making those business. They are kind, friendly and always satisfy our needs.
I care about the service more since those vendors are boss themselves, they know how to keep customer relationship and they will remember you when you visit them next time. While service now is just a job provided by the servant. Sometimes i feel I just spend much more money but get the similar goods and poor service.
@@irwinhe3973 Yes, yes! I agree everything you say. And sometimes I think, "Things are going too fast. Slow down!"
Oh you can't imagine how do I miss that old dirty messy wet market where I used to buy authentic 鸡蛋灌饼 and fresh bass.
Living in Guangzhou... tbh, as a Chinese, I miss old China too. But it has to change, which is the only way to make everyone live better life. some really suffers
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4:20 That is a vegetable garden right in the city....amazing, still there. Bet a lot like that has gone with the wind. The Chinese, especially the old folks in days gone by, will make use of any piece of land to plant vege. Not only in China, but also in South East Asia, wherever they are found. They will sell the extra harvest in the village market, really fresh and tasty too. Miss that also.
Yep, it ’s happy to grow your own vegetables, which are not only delicious but also cost-effective
welcome to nanning
Thanks for sharing Gweilo.
Well, I miss the childhood memory but I don't miss the buildings at all.
I remembered the leaky roof, and we have to use buckets to catch the rain on the rainy days.
The oily kitchen with thick layers of oil everywhere, on the wall, on the bottles.
No hot water, so have to boil hot water before bathing and fill up big bathtubes manually.
No toilets room.
No gas, to cook you have to burn coals outside.
Cat chasing mice at midnight, causing big noise.
You probably miss it because you forgot about the house work.
I like the architecture, but the living condition is so bad.....
The food is cheap before the farmers in the villages gets penny for their labours. They still grow their food the old fashioned way, i.e. by hand.
The reason you are seeing the cost of housing became so expensive is because the villager don't want to live in the farms any more.
Memory is a strange thing, and it can fool you. You always have things you misses. But ask old people around you whether they want to live the old life or new life.
People have this tendency of wish things to be the same, and sorry, things are never going to be the same regardless of city development.
Nanning is the 3rd class city though it is the capital of Guanxi province. I have been Guilin and Liuzhou of Guanxi. They are good places for life.
When you see the old things, you see yourself, happy and sad, lucky and silly, you see how quickly time goes by and how much you've been experiencing.... and the people you know. When you see old things, you get sentimental... Fuwuyuan, lai ping baijiu!
In fact, people who live in those villages will become billionaire once their house is demolished by high-rises. So jealous people like me work everyday but those uneducated people get rich.
每个人的命不一样，活自己吧，别人的钱就是别人的
You can move to some good villages if you love the lower landscape and sloppy lifes. While the cities grow, village grow too. They are much more convinient and cleaner than before.
Golly, it makes you wonder who made money knocking down the old slums and building high rise apartment/condo blocks.
@6:54 - barrier free public washrooms. The buildings in the area are literally "numbered".
Just noticed youtube cancelled my subscription of.your channel. Shame on them.
They can be difficult at time. Re sub and everything will be the way it should be. Smile
It is an interesting argument regarding the attitude of ecologists vs industrialists. I think the government is slowly promoting the protection and preservation of old buildings since its intrinsic value is quite high especially in a highly urban region like in Shanghai.
It's hard to coordinate people's desire of urbanization, improvement of life quality and keeping the primary nature.
I left China in 2008 and when I went back in 2016 I was surprised too.
Though the street is old but it seems clean.
Hey Gweilo saw you wetmarket video on swedish television you need to collect that RMB or did you?
Even it's rural area, I am really surprised that there's no rubbish through out the walking......
Thanks for sharing...It is the same all over the world. People who love the "old world" because they are the visitor, they don't live in it and don't have to suffer with daily sanitary issues etc. People who had lived in the old world love the newer and more hygienic convenience because they use it every day. That is, of course, if the new place is well kept and maintained.
It’s called progress, and China has been sprinting for the past 2 decades. But it would be good if they preserve historical buildings.
It is called economic growth over all else. It is pretty easy where it will lead to.
They still preserve a lot of historical buildings tho. it’s more like a combination of modern and traditional culture
@Purple Grape Uncle Hrm isn't it possible to preserve them and upgrade them at the same time? Just thinking here...
@Purple Grape Uncle not really possible. Traditional styles revolve around building with wood or bamboo. Those materials don’t last long and can’t be large. Not to mention how quickly they start generating trash around the building. Whereas building with steel can’t really take on the forms of traditional styles due to the laws of physics.
I don't want to diminish your opinion, because there is some validity in terms of nostalgia ..... but just because the buildings have changed, the methods of travel have changed, the standards of living have changed ... I don't think it has necessarily changed the inherent culture of Chinese people. Even though there are millions of us who have immigrated to other western countries, many still follow he traditions of our heritage .. and that to me is the most intrinsic thing about being Chinese. Surroundings might change, but we remember where we've come from.
I love the old China, And I love the new China too. As long as she(China is our mother in our eyes) is China, I love her forever.
没有共产党，就没有新中国！
wendy chen without the ccp，there would be no new China
Nanning is my home town, small city and famous by nothing...
I literally have a Hometown in a northen city of Shanxi, which is my childhood paradise. However, i could not recognize even a single road when i went back after 15 years.
Locality is what you missed, but the local people need to improve their standard of life too, like drainage, construction of houses, hygiene and so forth. But at the same time, the price of inflation rises so fast, it doesn't match the rise of wages, it is sad, but all the city in the world grow like that in the past 20 years. In NY, in London, in Europe, in Asia, it's called greed .... I m just hoping the world would be changing after this Coronavirus and the big recession, deflation would come and hopefully the market could adjust to good price for value.
Thanks for another great video showing what’s happening at ground level in Nanning! Stay safe, Gweilo.
China's development is like a rocket, which is its "original sin".
Chinese people sometimes find it incredible, let alone a foreigner. Even if you came to China ten years ago, you don't know her now.
To make it easier to calculate, it is about 10sq ft a sq meter.
The old buildings are still connected to an old sewerage system were residence can dump there wastes such as paint, cooking oils. New buildings waste water goes to a treatment plant to be treated before releasing it back into the environment.
Did the one child policy not work? 🤔
I think it was OK for the time it was implemented but does not hold true for today.
@@Gweilo60 my wife says it’s because the people are all leaving the farms and villages and are moving to the big cities. Now China needs to import most of their food items, she says.
i know what you mean. the first time I was in China was 2004, meet my wife to be and fell in love. we would go have rice dumplings and the tables were out in the road, now they must keep all tables near the small resturant. understand the changes, but i see the old china disappearing.
we would shop near a walmart, and close to it was a shopping area that looked like europe.
have a great time, take care.
Hong Kong I know is vanishing too. I am so missing the old HK.
guess that shall not all blame on virus.... stay home keep safe