Why China is Building the World’s Biggest City
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Didn’t think I forgot about China, did you?
How could we ever think you forgot about China?
Keep it up!
Have you done a Brexit video yet because I can forsee something similar happening in NI 😂
In Portugal, we drive on the right* side of the road, not on the left side. So the fact people drive on the left side in Macau it's probably not because of portuguese influence. I might be wrong or just misunderstood things
But, you forgot about Apple! You just made a video without mentioning Apple at least once.
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China: *exists*
Polymatter: Write that down, write that down!
TH-cam comment about Polymatter writing down everything that China does: *exists*
JM Mendez: Write that down, write that down!
Andrey Zhuravlev haha so true
JM Mendez ughhhjhhhhhgghghhhh
Polymatter has been a Chinese channel since ancient times.
Meme: Is stale.
JM: Persists!
China : We need to let the world know about our new city connection plan.
Polymatter : Let us Introduce ourselves.
*Polymatter:Write that down write that down!
Let us introduce ourselves is one of the funniest memes of all the time
Let us hongkongers introduce ourselves
sorry, did not get the point. Means let the world introduce it ?
China build cities, but ignore the nature
I never been in Macau, but in Portugal they drive on the right hand side of the road, not left like in Britain.
Cool bro
mostly casinos. pretty much one in every block you walk by. i was there in 2019
It’s because Portugal used to drive on the left, until 1928 when they switched to the right. Macau apparently didn’t follow Portugal’s switch, so they still drive on the right.
@@alexdyk9813 based macau
@@alexdyk9813 Left hand drive is also influenced by Hong Kong which is a British colony till 1997.
70 million people city? My whole country counts 60 something million people in total.
LOL
Bosnia has 4 million people. haha
Yeah, bad right?
I'm guessing western europe.
Britain, France, Italy, all 60 millions ish, what a balanced situation...
But then China has population of 1,2 bln people. The entire Western civilization counts for less :D
Congo?
Fun fact, I live in downtown eastern Shenzhen. It takes me less time getting to downtown Hong Kong than the western CBD district of Shenzhen. Crossing the Wenjindu immigration literally takes 1-2 mins. I love almost everything about Hong Kong, except for the prohibitive price of services. This video has been made quite accurate unlike many other channels.
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Used to live in GZ and can confir that crossing the border in SZ is pretty simple if you don´t go during the peak times... have waited anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 hours. How`s the property market in SZ doing?
rellix. Fuck you bitch!
@@NateNate60 haha very funny... Try again next time
The crossing is theoretically pretty quick. But in reality, it still takes you a couple of hours door to door.
Guangzhou is not just an administrative center. It is also a massive manufacturing and supply chain hub.
whoah dude no way
Isnt youtube ban in china? 🧐
@@KewalTravel How is that relevant to my comment?
Yes, youtube is banned in China, similar to how Tik Tok is banned in India. People who want to go on youtube in China can simply use a vpn. Vpns are very easy to obtain and use. The government rarely enforces the ban with any strictness.
@@KewalTravel Watching youtube is not as difficult as you think
@@tomcrik7678 really? Coz i heard that vpn is also baned there 😂
Polymatter is obsessed with apple,Amazon and china
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Well they are great topics to talk about XD
krishna somasundaram you just describes Ll the most relevant things
No, they're just obsessed with what matters right now. They'll fill in the blanks with the shakers and movers as they change.
And the two As both perform not that well in China last year, one got their stock price drop like crazy by just mentioning China in report, the other got pissed so much that they just get part of their once quite popular services out of China entirely.
Next video: Starbucks
What I learn today?
DJI is a Chinese company.
alot of actual decent Chinese tech company tries to avoid 'Chinese brand' when they market aboard, because of how 'Chinese brand' is poorly regarded in the rest of the world right now
Akash Dobhal does that change your perception of the company? I’m genuinely curious
Huawei is a Chinese name.
DJI comes from a Chinese name Da Jiang Innovations.
With American components
@@bipolargamer99x which consumer technology product on earth doesn't rely on global components?
I'm a native Hong Konger and I'm amazed by how knowledgeable the creator of this video is about Hong Kong.
This video isn't about Hong Kong?
2:21 how to get from Kowloon to Shenzhen in just 14 minutes?
Val Baturin express train traveling underground
By metro. 14mins from a downtown to another downtown. @@valbaturin9362
@@NightcorEDM it is
Tokyo:I’m the most populated city!
Pearl River Delta City:hold my beer.
Delhi India: Hold my bags
Polymatter: Its unlikely that either country would risk raising tensions any further.
*USA: Huwawei is now banned from using Android and Google Play*
Huawei *
Polymatter: am i a joke to you?
Plot twist google begs to be allowed to continue to work with Huawei over fear it will lose value information from spying on millions of people and money because it realizes Huawei has its own os that could challenge google
Huawei is back now! Trump realized his ban didn’t work as planned.
Blake Brown Well Google and other American companies can do business now with Huawei.
As an American living abroad in China, I've been across the borders of futian (HK) and gongbei (MC) checkpoint and back at least a dozen times now, and it's really not as complicated as it's made out to be. Being a complete foreigner, it takes me about 30 minutes because I have to wait in a special, less staffed line. My girlfriend, who is native Chinese, does it in about 10 minutes. You'll have longer wait times trying to get a subway token. There are tons of people that commute across the border daily, especially Shenzhen students.
Also, real talk, Shenzhen is a nicer city than Hong Kong. HK is dirtier, more crowded, and more expensive. The only benefit is using western internet without a VPN.
I completely agree that Shenzhen is wayyyyyyy better
@Main Channel In my experience of watching other people because I've *clearly* never used one, no. Almost anyone with a strong grasp on English will have one, from what I've seen. Instagram is still insanely popular despite being banned, and most of the staff at English schools will have a facebook to keep in contact with their foreign friends that have gone back home. I've never once heard of anyone getting in trouble for it.
TheDirtyHobo wry true , I wonder the video maker has ever been there and his source of information .
Main Channel it can get risky if one sells large amount of vpn services to others. But other wise I as a shenzhener has never herd of anyone getting trouble for it.
@Main Channel hahahah not at all man
China: Connects four giant cities into the most powerful economical and production cluster
Me: Shit, I'm taking class on how to make animated videos
😂😂😂, that's hilarious.
You are not a country. You’re a person.
Btw find God. He’s good.
How is that a bad thing?
Well they have the money and power, big deal, not that impressive.
are you using skill share XD
Is anyone going to talk about how epic Hong Kong’s flag is
Its BEAUTIFUL
I prefer British flag though, I don't like red that much
it's a fxxking "flag of fan". and it's a flower (Bauhinia × blakeana)that usually not re-produce. In chinese culture; its a bad sign.
@@センナ-h4c it's in UK
Macau is better
Countries with 30 million people: *_exists_*
Chinese City: *Hold my beer*
@Bitcoin Beast lol
Hold my people
Ooooooo hey, I found you again on a random channel!!!!!!!!!!!
@@yungstallion2201 who? Me?
No 😂
10:41 is literally my house... in The Netherlands lol.
Nice...
Don't say that online man, you could get burgled
Waar is dat dan?
@@violenceisfun991 Why would that increase chance of being burgled?
theuglykwan, because now we know he's in the Netherlands we just have to wait for him to post online that he is not home and then we can go steal from him
Just for the record in Portugal we drive on right side of the road
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Yes but you didn't when Macau was taken and it's never changed to the right
It only made it worse because you clearly forced the poor Chinese drive on the left side of the road and make them import stuff from Japan/Australia/UK.
It is joke alright? We all know driving on the left is the correct and traditional side... before a dude from France forced everyone to drive on the right...
You guys didn't when you settled Macau.
Imperator technically the left side is better, manly because most people are right eyed and that is the side that opposing traffic come from.
China risking it all internationally for hong kong makes a lot more sense now
To be fair it was the main port that bankrupted the last dynasty. Not to say what they're doing is right, but they still have a reason.
@@KRYMauL what they're doing is definitely right, there's no two ways about it. It's the western powers that have fuelled the instability in HK to try to contain China again after the opium wars. So, what China is doing is absolutely correct and I'm a HK citizen.
@@Bexxxyable My dad’s a Hong Kong native and so are my Grandparents. My grandparents believe that China should reunite and just be left in their cage to fight among themselves.
@@Bexxxyable Are you now. Is that why people still get arrested here daily and everybody i know are considering to leave or going to leave or already left? Stop with your fantasy of a terrible "foreign black hand" responsible for everything bad in china. Its a propaganda and crowd control tactic to create a foe to distract people from the real enemy (CCP) and its honestly pathetic to see some people genuinely fall for it.
@@Kanthannic we are not assuming. the US's hatred towards us is in race but not country. We were still under Qing dynasty's ruling when the US introduced Chinese Exclusion Act. It was also the only chapter in Code of Laws of the USA that discrimates one certain single race. We, Chinese are the only people asked to be discrimated by the US by law. We have to assume the possibility that the US may enslave us. Don't forget China offically abandoned slavery in 1723 but the US, as "the lighthouse of democracy", did not abandon slavery until 1865, under the pressure of civil war.
we live in a very interesting period of history.
All periods of history are interesting. You're just paying attention to it now because you're experiencing it.
True
We really don’t
Timeless Grass how?
Indeed
That was the best transition I've seen for a commercial.
then u probably didnt watch much of his videos xd
Solo lay first time visitin in here mate?
Yeah, until you see his next video.
@tush43 1st and last for me lol
its epic!
Oh wow if these cities connect it'll have a bigger population than the UK, that's pretty crazy
Shanghai itself is only 3-4m away to be comparable to all of the Nordic countries combined.
Not that crazy, most of the uk is full of fields
ZX81 Most of Australia is full of out back, most of Russia is full of snow. What’s your point?😂
Josh I meant the uk isn’t that densely populated or that big and most Russians live on the European part and Australians live near the coast.. and that Russia is having a huge population decrease
@@haumea207 football fields!
talkst about train in china
shows german intercity express
Some of China's high-speed trains are based on the ICE3 though I believe
@@lzh4950 rip china we love our ice3 here in germany 😂
I assume China does not paint its trains in the "Deutsche Bahn"-coulours (the Deutsche Bahn (=german railway service) has its far- distance trains painted white with a red stripe and its more local trains red with some white ornaments. In the last time they have painted a part of the red stripe on ICEs/Inter-City-Expresses green to show they are an ecological way of traveling
Every Chinese province is equivalent to a country in population. lol
Beijing has more than 20million people XDDDD
Rabbits
@@manueloctaviomartinez3173 More like ancient civilisation
@@Zyzzyx336 greece.
@@TheSuperBoyProject Older than Greece with muuuch better geography and don't forget the size of China.
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Sepi bang?
Bcz u are a fool
Same here
@@tejshah8364 mad
There's not enough mainstream attention towards the opportunities and threats of a strong China. These videos are great as a gateway to learn more about China!
Let's Travel is correct Omoshne.
@Let's Travel Omoshne never implied that PolyMatter was the only channel making videos about China.
So China is a threat while US is at war for most of it's history? China Uncensored to biased western propaganda that only give you half the truth while using biased US sources exclusively
The constitution isn't for you to spread slander!
@King Wiwuz IV Prosperous for the minority of the western world. Not so much for the majority that you're ignoring.
@nimajneb106 the problem is not about America, it is about the fact that China is an authoritarian communist-but-not-actually country.
We used to go to HK and Macau almost every week for shopping and fun, crossing borders took like 15 minutes or a bit more in rush hours. However, after COVID, it's impossible to cross at all for us foreigners. So, for the past couple of years we have to live in this megacity, restricted to the mainland only. Its quite funny though because the center of Macau is closer to my house than my city center.
Does China have you at their gun point or something?
Just kidding. Great video as usual!
Yeah why you asking?
Nah they got him in some detention facility with some uyghurs
He mentioned the Umbrella movement, so thankfully no.
Томас Андерсон ... for now. He’s going to be spouting CCP propaganda once they get ahold of him xD
Ecological Warrior It’s always sunny in Guantanamo.
I left work an hour ago in Switzerland (basel), went to Germany for groceries and now watching this video home in France. All by bike and no border controls. Thank you schengen!
Aschraffff United Europe
Now we all know which area u are probably living LOL
BREXIT
Sick....
@@johnalessi1835 Where are you from? :)
Hongkong: we got youtube not like china
Polly: *GOOD*
It is very weird that people are proud that they can use youtube, there are thousands of vedio website in China, do I need to feel proud that I can use Tencent video to watch videos?
Hong Kong worm
中国交通事故合集每日更新 Wow so this is what some Chinese think when they don’t have freedom to freaking choose
JinGyeom Park hummm... he is trolling you hanguk kid
@@jinkyumpark If u have thousands of websites to choose from, why care about several specific ones with the language that 99.99% of the Chinese dont understand? I just find it is meanless. why do you need to use someone else's websites with the languages u dont understand instead of your own country's websites with the languages you know well? I have been in the USA for 2 years now and the only USA website I use is youtube, I dont see anything different if I cant use youtube anymore. it's just not a big deal.
China is not just building the Guangzhou Hong Kong cities cluster, but also building others like Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou, and some smaller scale city clusters like Shenyang-Teling-Panjin, Chengdu-Mianyang-Dujiangyan, Xian-Xianyang, etc. There will be many clustered cities in the future, all connected together. China is a huge powerhouse, nobody should ignore it.
Soooo, are we just going to ignore the fact that this city will have more people than France, UK or Thailand
How those countries plan on keeping themselves from falling behind are simply strictly on their own terms.
Advocatus Diaboli not for long. Their population will lose 400-500 million people towards the end of the century and Africa and India will emerge as the new superpowers
@@Micrigas That's why China is making so much investment in Africa
@@Micrigas We have the youngest population in the world
@@Micrigas Actually I do like to see China losing populations (not by killing of course). Less people means more space, less traffic, easier access to public service, and so on. Less people does not mean less respect - same for all the other countries around the world.
Why China is building world biggest city? Well, I think almost in 2,000 years, the biggest city in the world is almost always in some part of China. So, maybe it's part of their tradition....
for a short period of time Rome was the biggest city
@@Epir1 yes, because of that i wrote "almost always"
China is able to build 'the world's biggest city' because it has the population. The three biggest clusters are the Yangtze Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and "JingJinJi" in the north. These are actually not single cities, but clusters of totally independent city cores whose metropolitan areas have grown to become merged into one. The same thing can be seen elsewhere like the Tokyo Bay Area, Greater Los Angeles, Greater New York, etc. The thing is that China's population will peak soon. From your name, it looks like you are from India. I am imagining (and expecting) that in the not so distant future, "Greater Delhi" and "Greater Mumbai" are going to be just as big, if not even bigger than the Chinese megacities. I believe Delhi is already completely merged with several million-plus cities like Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad, etc. I was there a few years ago and saw the same processes in China are just being replicated in India with a time delay of ~15 years or so.
China has an aging population. They will soon have to take in others and grant them Chinese citizenship. I can Already see it happening
China is not an immigrant country, just like Japan. Even though China's population is aging, it is unlikely that China would seek taking foreign immigration to the country.
Biggest city in Germany: 3 million
China: Hold my bear
China: A few Cities with a few million people.
Tokio: 9.mio. Hold my beer
As far as I'm concerned Germanys biggest city is the rhin-rurh with 11 million
Alejandro Zarzuelo that isn‘t a city, only a Region
@@sapere_aude no, it's a metropolitan area, just like this one, arguably the rhin-rurh is more like a single city than the pearl River delta
Unlike the pearl River delta, the rhin-rurh has a unified public transport system and a higher population density
Alejandro Zarzuelo
Still it doesn't bear China lol
Nov 2019, I'm not sure if this video aged well, I'm trying to figure it out.
It did state that protests could get stronger and freedom gradually lost. Real life events just happened way faster than usual in this case.
Definitely didn't age well. HK is now the topic of a cold war between the US+UK and China though I wouldn't say the US and UK are allies in this, China just threatened both of them lol
@@nunyabusiness6450 I don't think the UK has much to say. This is more about China-USA. But yeah it just keeps getting worse.
The quality of your videos is just amazing!
Videos...
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Why? ;-;
@@kevinsantoso7430 quality of x are amazing? incorrect, quality of x is amazing
You state everything very clear, unlike other channels. Well done. Keep it up. and thank you
Wow, I didnt know youtube had professional ball lickers :I
unsubbed, did not realise you were a biased propaganda mouthpiece for the US. Here are some facts: this extradiction law is by no means different from what HK has signed with numerous other nations and only specifically allows a certain class of crimminal to be extradited. Further, do note how hypocritical it is for you to side with HK on this issue but say basically nothing about the US's extradidtion of Jullian Assange and Hua Wei's CEO as a bargaining chip in Trump's trade war.
Finally I would point out that HK depends entirely on China for its food, water and trade- for HK to sever ties with the mainland as you seem to be pushing for would be suicide, and realistically no Western country would bother to fill this void, nor can they do so. Do try to recall that China's investment in HK is mutually beneficial to both HK and China, as China could have easily focused on only mainland countries and not attempted to even include HK and saved themselves the headache of dealing with an adolescent nation pining for British rule where neither freedom nor democracy had ever been given to them since they were taken hostage in the Opium War.
Won't be alive do not care
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@@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 what r u talking about
He, that's Rotterdam (the Netherlands) at 10:38, not Hong Kong or Shenzen.
exactly, very strange to see it in a video about China..
@ That is interesting! How so? And how soon is soon? Rotterdams Chinatown is not THAT amazing nowadays...
@ Exactly. Because Chinese "culture" is a ghetto to begin with. Of course, China got it's new glass buildings like Dubai did as well. But before 20 years ago, it was still one dilapidated shit hole in most places. For instance. Back in the days when nothing else than Chinese restaurants, Chinese food was pretty popular, in a Dutch country that has no real cuisine of it's own. However nowadays in the Netherlands there are so many cultures to be found that it's nowadays dominated by most other Asian, Greek, Italian cuisines, while Chinese food has in most places rotten away to a far away spot. Anyway. You're right. Chinese cities of glass and metal in the western civilization globalization are a far cry better than all it's own architectures and dilapidated areas before it. With love
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I know they are not representative, but if you find me a ghetto in the Netherlands, I will happily buy you a beer. Spoiler: they do not exist in the Netherlands.
@@lachiere_sixx7735
To say that chinese culture is a ghetto, makes no sense to me. When European tribes were still walking around in bearskins, the Chinese already had cities. Isn't that also part of Chinese culture? But I have to agree that Mao and communism were very bad for China and its culture. In a lot of cases, it ment the end of it.
The Netherlands has no cuisine of its own? Wow, you need to eat out a bit more, buddy. And it's not the Chinese food in particular that has been popular for a long time in The Netherlands, but Indonesian food. Babi Pangang and Satay aren't Chinese, but Indonesian. ("Chinees-Indisch restaurant, if you know what i mean.) If you know your history, you understand why there is a lot of food from the East-Indies in The Netherlands. Not that there is anything wrong with Chinese food by the way, it is one of things I really appreciate about Chinese culture. It is certainly on par with Italian or French cuisine. And it is certainly not rotting away here.
Oh, and I hate glass and steel architecture. It is architecture with no sense of place; it is cheap, easy and impersonal. I would rather stroll through a dilapidated Hutong than another glass and steel Dubai. (By the way: strolling through Dubai is almost impossible. You would know that if you've been there.)
I like these flags such as Shenzen, Hk and Macau. Beautiful flags
Hong Kong's flag is my favourite based on pure aesthetics
Hong kongs flag would be actually kept after it joins china
Since the regional flags are never removed. All regions have a flag like US states
这你要感谢邓小平，他提出一国两制的设想
As a Chinese I've never seen the flag the video used for Guangzhou though
THANKS!!!!!
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*My country: We have 2 million people*
*City in China: Hold my condom* [Corrected]
Hah my country has not even 500000
A condom is gross... A used one anyways. Te heee...
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A. P exactly my thoughts 😂
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2:55 Funny how colonialism, in China, is spelled "governance". Some people should look into the Opium Wars to understand how Great Britain stole Hong Kong from China.
China has plenty of faults (PLENTY), but to say that Great Britain barely "govern" over Hong Kong is just a plain disingenuous explanation. It's as if one would say that Europe never colonized Africa. It simply "governed" it.
Progress of China in just short span of time.amazes me.
It's amazing what can happen when a government stops actively trying to ruin its economy and lets us develop.
This progress is based on the communist party allowing in capitalism. It's a failure of their ideology.
China: Howmany videos can you make?
PolyMatter: YeS
why are the first and last letters capitalized?
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I once crossed the bridge (on a bus), the bus is relatively full (mostly tourists), the bridge and tunnel looks epic, but there's barely any other vehicles on the bridge, like less than 10 cars passed the bus throughout the whole journey.
Greater Bay Area: We will have 70 Million people living here.
JingJinJi and Yangtze River Delta Region: *Laughs* “You are funny”
These regions arguably are not competing in the same industry so they are not replacing each other really. Also developments around the pearl river delta is more spread out I think, which could be a unique advantage over the other two regions.
GingDzinGi is not a metropolitan area.
@@GyacoYu Technically people do use high speed train between Beijing and Tianjin to go to work daily, and IIRC Beijing subway covers more than Beijing itself. The potential is there even if it's not a metropolis.
野龍 But Chengde, Handan and Zhangjiakou is technically a part of Gingzin'gi.
That's nomal...See China's Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone....Several cities with over 100 million people and GDP of 3 trillion dollars....
"Hong Kong will loose it's autonomy in 2040, But the new era, has in many ways, already begun"
2020:
China forces extradition laws on HK
The US cancels HK special tax zone
British commonwealths loosens immigration for HK businesses to escape
Looks like this is boiling over a lot quicker than expected...
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@@李清-s1o lol
Hong Kong or the PRC should've just ignore that murderer and let Taiwan handled it instead of extraditing him.
China stole Hong Kong's wealth after the 1997 handover. They have moved all of Hong Kong's financial resources to the Central government in Beijing. This is evident by comparing China before and after 1997. Prior to the handover China was a poor country who relied heavily on investments from international companies. Millions of mainlanders risk their lives trying to fllee to Hong Kong to find a better way of life. After the handover in 1997 all of a sudden China exploded into a mega rich country. Hong Kong citizens have been suffering ever since. This is one of the reasons for the protests in Hong Kong. The pro Beijing government of Hong Kong is stealing the wealth from Hongkongers.
@@JohnsonHYLau China stole Britain's wealth.
1:50
Slight spelling error on San Francisco
Yes, I "notised" that too.
Wanna get more views?
- Talk about China, Apple, Amazon!
Damn, your best yet. The depth of this video makes me feel like I've read a 20 pages report. Glad to have you in TH-cam.
Maybe the script WAS twenty pages long.
tO Wonder: It is easier for most people to hear rather than to read. For print has a magnetizing and hypnotic effect by solidifying "the truth," with the refusal to cast away doubt, having expended so much energy, hard work, comprehension and retaining that -- to heck -- *I HAVE to believe it!*
I like how PolyMatter's videos are more neutral than most those news channels, no political propaganda or picking sides, just stating the facts, both pros and cons
Nice video mostly (though still with some usual western biases). I was originally from Hong Kong, part of the greater Pearl Delta Region. The PRD was a historically wealthy and important economic/industrial region for South China going back to ancient times. South China is mountainous, but the Pearl Delta is a large region of fertile soil and flat plains which made it suitable for high concentration of people and capital. The PRD is basically equivalent to the Yangtze Delta, Ganges Delta, and the Low Countries of Europe.
When China opened up, Shenzhen was one of the first five designated "Special Economic Zones", which was to serve as a lab experiment for capitalist reform and foreign investment. Shenzhen was strategically chosen because for its location across the border from Hong Kong, making it easy to access capital. The experiment worked. SZ started off as a typical low-cost manufacturing hub. It moved upscale to electronics assembly. Now, it is becoming an innovation hub, with mutually beneficial relations to Hong Kong as we have world class universities. This year, Shenzhen's GDP passed Hong Kong's for the first time. The government of China is right to build closer integration of this whole region of 50 million plus people. The Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai bridge was opened this year. HK finally completed its leg of high speed rail last year. In the coming years, there are going to be more bridges built across the Pearl Delta, airport expansion in Hong Kong, among other things. The west side of Macau (Hengqing island) is going to be turned into an entertainment hub to complement Macau's casino. These are large scale projects you can see on Google Maps or other equivalents.
We take pride in our PRD region: in our unique food and Cantonese culture, as well as our contribution to China's national economy. We look forward to increasing our business and cultural ties with the rest of the world.
Definitely western biases
I've crossed that bridge from Macau to Hong Kong and my goodness, what a weird experience. It was almost entirely empty, save for a few commercial trucks and government vehicles. There were immigration checks, toll booths, and lots of seascapes. From what our driver told us, the only time it's really busy is during the weekend, which the elite Hong Kong businessmen go over to Macau to gamble away their money and then return to work the following week. The rest of the time, it's just a barren strip. That's insane for a $8 million dollar construction project.
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Just kinda stumbled onto a video about in and out and now I'm binge watching
China: We have built the biggest city in the world, but our population is still getting higher!
_builds an underground city_
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EastWindBreaks now it's two children
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*India needs a no child policy lol , for a certain time*
@@Proger-sj8cj india need 20 years without child born
Colonizing Mars
Autonomy of HK has further eroded. One Country Two Systems is essenyially dead :(
you are sillyB
Lmaoooo u attracted the chinese bots
Although 2 systems, there is only 1 country
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British were very smart in dividing people based on their differences like what they did to India and Pakistan, China and Hong Kong. And we still fight each other over those differences.
Intelligent
This didn't age well regarding Hong Kong.
How come? The video already predicted the uprising in Hong Kong by saying the convergence had already begun.
IIRC there's talk in HK that the government will attempt to re-introduce the extradition-to-mainland-China law (that caused the political unrest in 2019), after the PRC central government introduced the national security law to HK in July this year (& I guessing that it might be invoked to classify street demonstrations as 'subversion'/'terrorism')
@asdf Because the reasons behind the law are already well-published in the media. There's nothing for me to lie
The situation in hong Kong, and the CCP in general is depressing af
*I am sure the rent in Hong Kong is not that cheap, its getting higher **every.day**.*
That's why the Real Estate sector in Hong Kong decides to fund the Hong Kong protest because they don't want socialism or government intervention in changing the housing price.
Not that you show signs of slowing down, but please keep up the videos on China! I had almost no idea about any of Chinese culture/politics before your videos, now it seems impossible to think about the world without focusing primarily on Chinese development. Super interesting!
They have already built 100 cities that are virtually empty. It’s their economical model. Build to employ. What’s one more?
The workers need work. Imagine the unrest when workers are laid off and have nothing to do and no one to blame..
Ahahaha so u guys have nothing to worry right?
70 million city?
My country has a population of 5 million..
Probably gonna be overrun by Chinese immigrants as well
So from the perspective of a HKer: the success of HK relies heavily on the fact that HK is not China. Its robust legal system, independent customs policy and international recognition. No independent court and customs, means no HK. The US-HK Policy Act could be at risk if HK is continuosly used as a gateway for China to extent its economic force on other countries or buy technology a Chinese company wouldnt otherwise be able to buy. HK is a huge loophole for China on the US China trade war, especially if HK grows even closer to China.
The only reason HongKong was a success is that China used to close its door and HingKong was the gateway to the rest of the world.
If you consider HK being taken over for drug trade a success then i guess it is. ie opium war
@@AFlyingCookieLOL he means the business success described in the video as well. Now let's remember something from the war and crime history of your country from the 19th century.
You exaggerate a lot. I've been over 10 times from HK to MC, it's very quick, show your passport and that's it. In Macau you can pay with HKD or RMB, no problems. Much easier than San Diego Tijuana!
r u a local resident?
@@elchinpirbabayev5757 HK resident for 6 years
@@dominiquecharriere1285 thanks))
agree
Doesn’t mean that Macau workers enjoy it when you spend HKD or RMB since their bosses can enjoy the difference in exchange rate...
We have to do a bunch of paper and computer exchange works when you are just spending HKD$10, RMB¥10 is worse.
I'm from Macau 🇲🇴 ! Thank you for mentioning my home 😎
@ok 01 why are you so aggressive and impolite? plz don't be ignorant.
@ok 01 hongkie eat enough shit yet?
And how do you have TH-cam? Isn't it forbidden there?
Anthony Ao 下面那個應該喺香港人，我替他向你道歉，香港一小部分人超級討厭，我喜歡澳門哈哈
@@alexandrumilos6149 Because of one country two systems, Macao and Hong Kong practice a capitalist system and mainland China maintains socialism
What an excellent video well researched and made, one of the best I’ve seen to date.
I want to see a Polymatter video on how automation will affect the labor force.
They really dont need to remind us of the great unemployement of the 2030s.
There's a bot working on that video right now.
Hasn't he already done this though
Link?
Wow, this aged pretty well right on the money even taking into consideration current events.
BTW, I,ve been to that train to Shenzhen several times but nah, it does not make 14mins. Still, quite fast though.
They say the 1800s was Europe's century, the 1900s the Americas', and the 2000s will be Asia's.
Yeah, like the Americans will let them peacefully take over...
Yeah, but fuck, I am not American but I prefer America. China is invasive against its neighbors, which my country is one.
Be more precise. The 18s and 19s was Europe century, the 20s north America and the 21s would then be China's (those three are similar im surface area actually.)
But that said, China probably won't be a superpower. By that I mean that it won't achieve the level of dominance the European or the states had.
The USA and the EU are just huge. And a lot of ex-third world countries are growing very quickly, India being the one which matter the most.
Brace yourselves, Africans are taking over the world in the 3000s ^^
Africa: Am I a joke to you?
_Subcontinent India has broken off and keeps ramming into Asia._
India: We are Asian too!
and this why China so vested in further Hong Kong administration integration
In 2050, the whole delta/bay area is gonna be like an awesomely huge cyberpunk megacity
maybe complete with cyberpunk governance and corporate power too lol but one heck of a megacity
That will be awesome i can't wait to see a super mega cyberpunk metropolis with all the neon lights and screen on the skyscrapers lighten up the whole province, the whole province basically becomes one city with all the skyscrapers none stop covering in the horizon
I‘ve been to Hong Kong & Macau a year ago and the way you can use the ferries to the airport is really cool.
Theoretically (if your airline supports it) you can Check in your bag at Macau Ferry Terminal to a ferry to the transit area of Hong Kong Airport. Therefore there is no need for immigration in Hongkong and you could just leave the ferry walking to you plane without any further inconveniences.
Wow dude clearly these videos call for a huge amount of effort and dedication to make, and yet they're flawless, well done Sir, you earned my subscription.
You took it absolutely wrong... China is also building another mega supercity around Beijing which doesn't have complications like greater Bay Area. Plan is to build 4-5 mega economic hub to fuel economic progress.
I'm not surprised if China is planning to build multiple mega-city areas at the same time. Every time I went back to China I'm mind blown by its growth and construction.
@@fw3901 yeh lol, it's like everyday another new building is being constructed 😂
@@fw3901 You mean all the empty ghost cities that collapse after just a few years? Like everything about China this is all just a lie and their only intention here is to destroy the autonomy of HK and Macau.
Guillermo Lahera shame on you, dumb western pig
@Blake Brown what you really need to understand is that these super cities aren't being build from zero... Cities are already their China is just linking them with first class infrastructure to boost inter regional connectivity which will fuel economic growth.
And your "Ghost cities" is slowly started to burst when people from rural China has started to live in these cities.
Problem is that the people of Hong Kong really don’t want to be a part of this mega-city.
@YunGunIT lol speaking just like a nazi government with oppressive regimes. Kill them all and squash them whole if they rejects!! Dont listen to them! Just wipe them off!
@@dawn8525 Exactly. It's like
"You Austrians speak German. Your territories is smaller. Welcome to Great Deutschland. You're now part of us.
Btw, You have much less population. So your opinion won't matter too."
Btw, Germany is the role model to any former imperialist countries. They admit their fault and educate people why it's wrong. It's just an example, not blaming Germans
People of Hong Kong are useless anyway. Zero productivity brainwashed trolls by the Brits and Yanks .
diga Melo ok wumao
I thought you were trying to talk about Jing-Jin-Ji. That'll be a supercity constructed from scratch in the Beijing-Hubei region that'll eventually be 100+ million. It'll be constructed intentionally to have the northern regions of China keep up with the economic growth of the south.
xiongan
Thanks for including the part about they losing their freedom. It's often that videos on China growth will completely ignore their horrible authoritarian government, without giving voice to the very serious democracy concerns.
Vancouver-Seattle-Portland. Think about the idea!
It’s called interstate-5
Lol
@Fanniumen Well, that's the Northeast Corridor, of which you have within the New York metro area (aka the Tri-state Area)
7 million people though
Please keep up the good work. I just found your channel, and it’s amazing
You make it sound like the Hong Kong citizens were able to choose their leader before the CCP change the law... that's not the case, the reason of the protest back in 2014 was because the new law only give so little improvement of the freedom on election. Hong Kong citizen were expecting that anyone can be a candidate of the election and every citizen will have the rights to vote.
CCP does give some more freedom to Hong Kong citizen, but the little amount of improvement of freedom given is what make the proteset happen
do you wish to have others vote someone to be your doctor among imbeciles ? or at least among Veterinaries ? elite Politics RULES ！
RIP Hong Kong. Human rights were good while you had them.
People have compared Hong Kong to Singapore. But Singapore's democracy is way more flawed than Hong Kong's.
Western propaganda seems to turn everything into a "human rights" issue when it comes to China. They give you half the truth
Overreacting lol, didn’t age well, democracy in HK is basically gone within 2 short years.
Yeah but nobody except poor African and South American countries fall for china’s bs anymore.
The last two years have been very bad for China and it will only get worse for them.
@@gavindy_Sv2 what’s China’s BS?
@@kevj745 lol where to start? Covering up the origins of the pandemic, genocide against uyghur Muslims. Suppression of Tibetan beliefs and freedom. Not to mention their own suppression of their citizens. Pathetic to be so afraid of the truth.
Tiananmen Square, mao’s “Great Leap Forward”, Taiwan. I could go on and on.
It’s all 100% bs from them. Shit, you can’t even get on google in China without a vpn. Now that’s some bs lol
@@gavindy_Sv2 Covering up the origin of the pandemic? It was literally created within fort Detrick in the U.S. bruh
@@gavindy_Sv2 Great Leap Forward was literally a success considering how China is No.2 in GDP world wide
As someone is from sf, no one crosses the Golden Gate Bridge who lives there
Yeah but the Bay Bridge doesn’t have any international name recognition, whereas the Golden Gate is *the* symbol of SF, and really, the whole Bay
Man, what a bureaucratic clusterfuck.
So in other words, China is just trying to use the Megapolis method for calculating the region. Great! We can do the same here in the US. The Chicago Megapolis, also known as the Great Lakes Megapolis has a population of 56 million right now. It's the largest Megalopolis in the country. China is creating the largest city? No. It's just trying to eliminate cities and make them fall under one badge. The cities are all independent of one another. Any country could try to use this method for calculating their region. Of course there are a couple of different ways of calculating the population centers as well.
@Ricki G It's exactly what there doing. They are taking completely separate cities and are trying to claim them as one unified mega city. That's called a megapolis. The Great Lakes also have a megalopolis. Chicago is the largest city of that megapolis.
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Are Polymatter and Wendover made by the same guy?
Coronavirus be like: im gonna end this citys whole career
Coronavirus be like: I'm gonna end the whole world
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Chinese listen to health experts. Friend you must had fine education in America don’t you?
Freedom that Hongkongers used to have? What a joke!
Oh hi there King Pooh. How long do you red chinese rebels think you can hold out? Surrender to the authorities.
@Blake Brown They never had any rights to vote, etc. during the British govening period.
@@FortuneZer0 Hi Mr. Opium, go back and do some homework about how the Hongkonger used to live and their rights under the govening by British. May be do more homework about Asian history and world history.
@@darren1751 Hello Chairmen Cheng Are you already hustling for the social credit by shitposting red chinese rebel propaganda?
@@FortuneZer0 You are just a stupid foolish brainwashed by western media. You are a joke and I bet you did not know. Please thank me for telling you.
And do not stay in your narrow world and be foolish for your entire life, try to move around to see the true world. Then you will thank me again.
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This would be amazing if it can be done.
It would definitely be in the top 10 tourist attractions of the world if people could travel more freely.
That will attract investors, create better communications between businesses and developers and earn shit loads in tourism.
100% on board with China here. Make it happen!
This video didn’t age well. China is about to use military force because Hong Kong is still protesting. They’re not “overreacting”
they've been "about to use military force" for months now according to TH-cam comments and Reddit. lmao
They could try military on Hong Kong which is basically suicide considering that HK has more than 70% of China's foreign capitals. If we didn't have such assets in our hands, we would have been eliminated already like Xinjiang.
@@ckmichael8 I agree that the CHinese will not come to HK, but not for the reason you are proposing. If it's a choice between the destruction of the HK economy from within by 1000 cuts due to these protests vs. the symbolic acknowledgement of the failure of "one country two systems" - China will choose the former.
I don't agree with your economic reason though. China has nothing to gain by sending their military police to Hong Kong. The only scenario I can see this happening is if Carrie Lam openly and publicly requests assistance - in that case, China may have no choice or lose face. However, since Carrie Lam is a loyal Beijing stooge, this is unlikely. Take care.
wow learned so much even though i live in shenzhen. good work, im subscribing.
Please increase the number of videos you make. They are superb.
Quality over quantity.
He isnt a robot...if you want more videos, subscribe, like the videos, support him on patreon and so on, he makes a living through this
Very informative video, presentation was spectacular!
Keep the content flowing man, especially on foreign/domestic business policy!
Justen Peterson agreed
6:13 mistake "the former" San Fran was the latter REEEEEE. Love the channel though
Wendover: "Hey! We do many videos about china more than any other channel on Yout-"
Poly Matter: "Hold My Beer"
One suggestions, you might focus too much about Hong Kong, but the plan is not about Hong Kong, it is more about the five production base: huizhuo, dongguan, houshan, jiangmen and zhongshan, and three innovative base of Guangzhou shenzhen and zhuhai, another tourism base of zhaoqing and qingyuan. These place are home to millions and millions of companies and billions of people. It is more important than Hong Kong. Such as the Hong Kong high speed train and the bridge just a small plan to link all these cities, Guangzhou has link all the cities I mentioned above by city train and high speed train as well as old normal train. The dongguan shenzhen, foushan Guangzhou will be link into one city by mertos in 2025. Guangzhou will be a transport base for all province around, already link all by high speed trains.
What if you see Hong Kong and Marco just a alternative plus for this plan. You will get different view I think.
No offense of your job or say your saying is false, but I think you didnt do the research enough and see the big picture here.
Isn't it typically? Hong Kong's the only (former) English speaking territory in the area.
"Those separations are exactly what makes their home so great."
As a Hongkonger, you absolutely nailed it!
smogiji ok boomer
smogiji tragic
smogiji too busy dealing with a pathetic government
how are those 5 demands going lmao
@Christoric How's the situation there? we haven't heard much from HK lately, would love to have an update.
I'm an Iranian myself who have experienced a religious dictatorship and one thing that Westerners don't really appreciate is their freedom /:
Damn. How 2 years has changed things. You were great, Hong Kong... were.