How China Copies Western Cities
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
- Why is China copying western cities? In this video, we go over the Chinese version of London, Venice, Hallstatt, Paris, and more! For more skyscraper & megaproject content be sure to subscribe to Top Luxury. Thanks for watching this video: How China Copies Western Cities
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0:00 Intro
1:05 Paris / Tianducheng
2:41 London / Thames Town
4:20 Hallstatt
5:46 Venice / Suzhou
6:50 Sanweng
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Would you like to visit one of these cities? 😎👇
Yeah, it'd be fun to visit something that is copied instead of visiting the real one😆
I would get confused
As long as it has no nuclear weapons, higher crime rate, and no politics, yes
Would be funny to see the fake paris after being in the real one
Sure. Both .
this took "made in china" into a whole another level
Ah yes
China has own culture, why Plagiarized other country?? 🙄
@@mfra959 China has no culture, what do you mean? They burned it down during the revolution time and that is why they copy and paste everything from western countries or neighbor countries like Japan, Korea, Vietnamese.
@@danielcoleman5332 I said "China has own Culture"
But they're copying Other culture
@@mfra959 We built all this in response to prove to the western countries that we can do just as well on infrastructure as they do lol. Those replicas are a demonstration/social experiment.
Europe: who are you?
China: I'm you but cheaper.
You’ve earned my like, good sir. Thanks for the laugh!
.. but there's no substitute for the original. Copied are fine, but when the builders of them insist they are better than the original then they're just leaving themselves open to ridicule.
@@robtyman4281 I don't want a chinese mona lisa or eiffel tower 😑
Cheaper and unpredictable
Cheaper But Low quality, bad 😂😂
The world’s largest photocopying machine.
@@fahadullahkhan6967 we don’t copy anyone here in Australia 🇦🇺. We are proud of our culture and heritage and we create based on originality.
@@fahadullahkhan6967 born in Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 bred in Lautoka and Suva Fiji 🇫🇯 studied in Auckland New Zealand 🇳🇿, and Sweden 🇸🇪 now live in Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 ..I did come to India twice.once during a diaspora convention and the other during my degree in filmmaking. I don’t know any one in india 🇮🇳 have no family in india 🇮🇳… I maybe Indian by ethnicity, but I am proud to be an Australian. no offense to your country man; I’m sure India’s great but I’m not from there so I can’t speak for it.
@@rahulvinalnarayan9743 u r duplicate Australian so that means u copy Australia's everything...cos Narayan is not Australian....
@@rahulvinalnarayan9743 wow , Now I saw a great copycat and a Liar.
Bro , YOU ARE NOT AN AUSTRALIAN , YOU ARE AN INDIAN , WHY ARE YOU STILL TRYING TO LIE AND TRYING TO MAKE US BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE AUSTRALIAN?🤣
@@pyntngenlangnongspung4300 hehehe boii😈
China: I can't conquer the world anymore.
CCP: Let's become entire world.
Lol. But True!
Lmfao
Funny thing is that China never wanted to conquer the world.
@@areebshaukat5840 And the other funny thing is that they legit saw China as the only part of the world that mattered, so bringing the outside world to China is the best possible answer to them. Conquering places outside the middle kingdom was only ever done to create buffer zones against steppe hordes and barbarians.
It seems so strange from an outside perspective, but from a Chinese one it is a lot more normal and goes back to old Taoist philosophy and the time before even the Qin Dynasty. In that part of the world throughout most of history, China was considered the prize. There's a reason why sinicization is a thing, and whenever foreigners conquered China _they_ changed thier culture to become more Chinese, rather than the other way around as what tended to happen everywhere else on Earth.
tl;dr China be wack yo.
Though I am glad they banned further copycatting.
😆
Well... It's expensive to travel, so it's cheaper right in their backyards.
What about feeling?
@@Lemonn1016 do Chinese have ?
Lol
yeah, It's actually pretty smart. I would love to have one of these towns in my country
@@areebshaukat5840 lol which country is it ?
Kid : mom we want to explore entire world.
Mom: we have entire world in our country 😂😂😂
Yov rishi pedia fan ah bro
I thought this was video was really good except for the part about Suzhou. Southern China has had water and canals for a couple thousands of years. Also, the city doesn’t have any more Italian restaurants than any other big city in China does so I don’t think it’s accurate to say Suzhou is a copy of Venice because besides both having canals they are extremely different.
Exactly. the Suzhou canal (around 610) even have a longer history, compared to the Canal Grande (around 1300). The second point of suzhou is simply just not true at all. Also, in terms of the restaurant point, near the canal, or the old town Suzhou, there is barely any Italian cursine, not before and not now. In addition to that, Suzhou is a large city, and has the fifth economy in the whole country, so it is open to lots of different types of cursine form all over the world. You could find mostly every type of food you want in Suzhou.
yes that destroyed the video. Suzhou is not trying to be venice.
Canals are trademarked by white people.
Suzhou is a copy of Venice. The canals were built and regulated after witnessing Venice system.
Yeah I was just thinking 🤣🤣
An entire city built just for photography
Not again I saw you like millions of time
China is convenient for Ray Mak, instead of going around the world, just go to China
yt recommends many vids to you...
Ready made sets for any film or drama.
And if any of the original cities were destroyed, they can still restored it based on these very close copies.
Suzhou part is a big mistake of this video. Suzhou has been there for thousands of years. It didn't copy Venice at all.
I have a feeling that china itself is a copy.
But it's not true. 😂
I agree.
I think some of Europe's work and even food are copied from East. Remember, they travel to Asia and brought the ideas.
@Cobb Ybecause they like the name? how is having a english name copying?
@Cobb Y I don't know about you but we were also given French names when learning French in an American high school. I guess it was for immersion.
Just some fake news in this video
The city with most copies I’ve been is called Las Vegas. Call it as it is..
Because las vegas copies new york also why does china have a lot of cities that has copies
@@estelaangeles2346 because having the same type of cities across the country is boring gives the country a little taste.
@@LJ-np3gc china is huge and boring
@@LJ-np3gc you mean because they don't like their own culture so they have to use others
@@joshr24 Dude what? Copying city styles and monuments is nothing new.
No.2 is definitely not a copy of Venice, Suzhou is so old and it has not really changed that much.
So they're doing these European city copies from old times eh
@@vishwanathasharma1409 Really, from more than 2000 years ago?
@@vishwanathasharma1409 the city older than Venice so if anything Venice copied them
the city also has more than 10 times the inhabitants of Venice and almost 1/6 of entire Italy, that's crazy
@@kaizhang5811 may be you are right copycat .
Copying is not as easy as it seems
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copy shows less intelligence . CHina lacks innovation. Their economy stands on copying western country's intellectual properties and its right. They are thief country.
@@red-zi7fg bruh
@@red-zi7fg in my country there's a saying
Nakal ke lie bhi akal chaie hoti he
There needs To be intelligence for copying
@@thetrickster9885 haan yaar mein cahta hun India bhi aisi cities bnayein western ka maza India mein🙃💪
@@evilbeast7029 true yrr filal to jo cities he unhe improve krle vahi kaafi 😂😂
Why go western when you can build your own western.
That's kinda the point. You get to experience multiple countries in your own country. Plus then the cash flow doesn't go out of China.
Also Chinese people have to get a mandatory "Exit Visa" to be able to leave the country which can be such a hassle for most so THIS is an easier much cheaper option!
@@ovig8917 It's not such a big hassle I have a lot of family members that regularly leave China and I have family members whom are from China that now live abroad.
@@cczsus6513 Did I say that Chinese people cannot live abroad?! or that they can't travel abroad ever? Read first then react. I have had Chinese neighbors, classmates and bosses so...!
@@ovig8917 Dude all I said it's easier then you think and provide context on how I know. Stop being so defensive for no reason it just makes you sound stupid.
The Suzhou part is nonsense. Suzhou has being a riverside city of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal for 1500 years.
yeah. but except that the rest of them are probably results of the latest blooming of housing estates. people grab a billion dollar or two, build some housings and get a ten folds returns. that is sick.
Hiii
Kids in China: Can we go to Paris?
Mom: No, there’s Paris in China
This means you can literally tour the whole world in China!
So cool
Not literally...
There is something very wrong with the Chinese.
I’ve also heard that they made a couple of replicas of German concentration camps
😅😅😅👌👌👌👌
I am sure you heard.
Nothing can compare to the real thing. It's not just about buildings, it's about the culture. That's why cities like London and Paris could never be replaced.
Plus, it isn't as crowded in the real places.
its not about replacing, its about having similar things in thier own country, we know how eu and usa spreads propaganda against china and in future china will dominate world in various statistics, so chinese might not be able to travel to some parts, so they build their own, its tourist attraction and shows how nothing is unique if you work hard and want it.
They've almost been replaced.
London is less than 50% British people. Paris is something similar.
It's the people that perpetuate the culture and make the city great.
London can't be great without British people and Paris can't be great without French people.
@@NostalgicMem0ries
No, the Chinese copy because they have no soul. Chinese people are infamous for not being innovative.
Rather than build something new, they just copy.
hope they burn paris and london down
Well, as a Chinese architect I have to say10-15 years ago, many private developers wanted to introduce western especially European styles to China to show people a different life style. Many odd buildings were built but in the last 5-8 years, this wave has stopped. Nowadays young people ( yes in China young people buy their own condo at a very early age, usually before 30), prefer modern style, traditional Chinese style , modern-oriental style more.
That's informative!
But I maybe there's a way for ordinary people to purchase this type of luxury. Affordable Installment
I've read that young people are struggling in China to buy property... Shanghai is in fact the third most expensive housing market in the world...
@@Kcelloo yeah, as high a sydney
good choice. western buildings are great looking but mainly on the cultural part. I'd love going to Italy seeing Italian buildings with Italian people speaking Italian. Now, if I go to a place with Italian buildings but Chinese people speaking Korean eating sushi, I'd probably find it a little bit weird.
I'm glad China has now banned this because your traditional buildings and houses are beautiful, now if only we could of gotten along you wouldn't of weaponized the covid virus that is slowly going to kill us all as it keeps mutating except those who made it sure must have a vaccine that actually works, oh well it was good while it lasted
You know what they say, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery“.
now I know why they always take pics when they travel
Everyone does though
@Gappie Al Kebabi and copy that
This is why we Indians don't call duplicate, we call it as 'china piece'.
Great video thank you so much. Again perfect AUDIO and narration...too.
Glad you enjoyed it👌
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Actually there’a little town that mimics Hallstatt in Nanning Guangxi, the town re designed the paths and the cathedral, which makes it easier to get around, it’s actually quite a nice place to live.
Just because the main media is in Europe doesn’t mean Suzhou copies Venice. If anything, Suzhou is older than Venice.
Hii
Each video better than the last! Good job!
China in 2025: Builds Westeros
I would love visiting that
and who will sit on the iron throne?
When you come across a video and think wait didn’t I watch this already? Then you realise a video about copying is a copied video…
0:28 Suzhou's watertown exists for hundreds of years, it didn't "copy" the western cities lol
Chinese Bot😂🤣🤣
@@ZAC641 it's true tho
@@ZAC641 apart from the fact that its true, how could a bot write such a complicate sentence putting Also the timestamp?
@@ZAC641 paid troll and nothing to laugh at .
@@rainbow2639 and that's why you have to like your own comment and he has 7
That's like "come experience Mars...in Gobi desert"
perfect 😂😂
Don't let Dubai hear that .
@@scienspace7323 W
@@scienspace7323 Dubai is a rollercoaster . It was built with the focus on tourism not an actual city
You are doing work really hard respect 👍👍❤️❤️🙏🙏
Thanks 💪
It’s not just about copying it’s about showing the Chinese people that China is capable of making these cities, and you don’t even have to leave the country.
@Jack Duncan Okay, who asked for your opinion, there’s obviously people who are not xenophobic like you. You’re the kind of person who’s guided by the media, to show your true self... a xenophobic person. Do more research, if you think they’re are to blame for COVID then you’re wrong because it’s origin hasn’t been proved yet.
@@RaulGonzalez-rs1be So what! Everyone has their own opinion including yourself
@@pepsiq11965 Thank you for reminding me something I know already.
China is an evil country that can’t innovate .
@@Jewzi123 Can’t innovate?, bruh they created 6g, and are the first in the world in quantum technology. You don’t know what you’re talking about
"God pls any European City"
....
"where am I?"
Doctor: Hallstatt, China
Come on,it would be more interesting when I finally read "China copies China,sues China and looses" !
This was super interesting! Keep these videos coming!
I know that Chinese smartphones copy the features of other phones, but I never thought the country would copy the monument's of other countries....
They even copy video game have you see that 😂 🤣 China is just a copy cat country in the world 🌎 🤣
China is now making a replica of Earth in space
China is even building a replica of China in our Islands. -Philippines
There are 3 eiffel towers in Pakistan. One in Lahore, another in Karachi(recently constructed) & about 80 floors eiffel tower is under construction in capital city
Hahahaha bann French products..
@@sumitborse Exactly 😆. Hypocrite Pakistan exporting French ambassador and building Eiffel replicas 😂
And they say they ban french products and break ties with them XD XD XD.
Lol why ?😂
When China becomes the entire world itself, without conquering the entire world
💯
@@sweetdreamer3352 nooo because its confirmed that china and india will start the apocalypse in in 2049 so thats why china and india want power to control the world
@@estelaangeles2346 hey girl..
@@estelaangeles2346 0-0
@@estelaangeles2346
Hello 👋
Amazing video 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Kids living in Suzhou:
"Can we go to Venice?"
"No we have our Venice"
Venice in China:
Suzhou canals are even older than Venice's.
Suzhou canals are older than Italy itself😂
More than 6000 years ago, the Hemudu culture had a canal, perhaps copied from Venice. The location is located in the southwest of Suzhou City, Huzhou.
@@user-qg5uv5ji5m doesn't matter. A copy is a copy. No tourist wanna visit a copy when there's an original. But ofcourse chinese ppl are too obsessed over western culture yet bash them for propaganda, etc. Such hypocrites 😂
In that case why doesn't France make a Replica of Beijing and call it Chinatown😂🤣
Replicating entire beijing seems a challenging task, but making a copy of forbidden city sounds good enough.
@@whitenyy5670 dude that Paris replica in China is also obviously not a copy of entire Paris
Only the main central area would've been copied probably
Same goes with the other cities
You can't just copy a city of millions detail by detail right 😆
Puting China into a Game!
Perhaps it can happen if China invade France, just like what France actually did in China by colonisation 100 years ago.
@@chkmc2010 You guys need to untighten your butts. The French aren't obsessed with Nazi Germany invading it back during WW2. Now the French are friends with Germans, and aren't constantly pointing fingers. Grow the fuck up. That's how you become a modern nation.
Interesting, great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think I would like to visit one of those copies of those copied cities in China I know you can keep up the good work on making more content it’s great that you always ask people to subscribe and hit the notification bell before you continue the video and ask at the end to subscribe if they haven’t yet. That’s pretty great keep up the good work
this is exactly what I think I would get if I ordered one of these cities online
This video was such a trip...!
Your building picture doesn’t stand up to a picture of a better designed building
“How China copies western cities” - never explains how China copies western cities. Just some super vague explanation of each city.
Yep
Nothing to explain really just by the look of it you can tell it's a copycat :)
@@hpfmee4976 Notice the part HOW they never exactly tell us HOW. But what the cities are like.
@@cczsus6513 how do you think? They have urban planners, and they study how to copy and paste western cities in China. The title is just indicative of what the video is about.
@@pvmatrappurple360 Nope he needs to explain how like the process and maybe did they get help from the people who built it to begin with etc and the legality of it.
These replicas are not promoted as a symbol of a city, but more as a means for real estate developers to attract customers. This is because China is far from Europe, and Chinese people like European architecture and culture. China's major cities do not copy other landmarks. Suzhou has its own history and culture, which is completely different from Venice.
i have been to all those place you have shown in video and its amazing. Because there people like european structure so they made it for there people. I think its good thing there people dont need to go europe to see this things. It helps people to stay in there own country. This is the major reason why china grow so fast. Youth like to live in there own country they are the most important part of development.
@@RohitVerma-ij9do what are you talking about? Chinese are all over the place
Amazing country full of replicas :) Replicas of architecture, replicas of human rights, replicas of freedom...
Nice video!
Thank you!
I've been dreaming for visiting Turkey..
for this, the chinese government should build Hagia Sophia, the blue mosque and the galata tower, and even copy the Turkish houses in safranbolu.
Thanks for the video. Now I have ideas of places to visit on my summer break here in China!
Oh my gosh. Well done actually but I'm surprised they did this yet not surprised. Kinda good for those who are unlucky and cant travel
Everyone Gangsta until China replicates Mount Rushmore.
Still waiting for China to build a replica of Washington DC. Because why not it's China
Nah they are gonna put winnie the pooh's face on it
they could, but that is far from easy
I’m the furthest thing from gangsta, but if I were, I’s see no reason to stop being it even if the Chinese built a copy of Mt Rushmore.
And wouldn’t they be better served building faces of their own leaders into a mountain side?
Hopefully they can fill the copy of Paris with more life.. Paris is so nice
My friend got robbed in Paris
Hopefully not
@@gxiang3545 Too many colored guys in Pairs.
@@forgaoqiang excuse me? colored?
@@gxiang3545 Too be pricise, black one
China is that one kid that copies your own name while trying to copy your paper
I thought people take pride in being copied, because it shows you are good, would you rather that others didn't give a toss about you?
i wonder if they will build a replica of the sydney harbor bridge or uluru maybe
so easy
the fact that this was recommended to me 15 minutes after this was released 😳
Who cares? Why are "oh interesting this was recommended to me" everywhere? RUclips recommended something to you? Great observation how long has that been going on? 🤦♂️
Ccp 50 years later : Europe has cities like our country , must be our land .
I love this! Where are there other examples?
China is not copying. Their architects, engineers, and builders are duplicating the famous international buildings and structures. This makes these professionals the most experienced and versatile in the world. Students of architecture do not have to travel around the world to observe these buildings and structures as they can do so within China. This is sharing of knowledge. It is also environmentally friendly.
U realise copying and duplicating are the same thing right?
That’s literally the definition of copying that’s like if the u.s decided to build shanghai it wouldn’t be good and china would’ve get mad so no
@@dracoii1147
Hypothetical and cannot be done.
@@pvmatrappurple360
I think it depends on the context.
We can copy a design and make changes at the same time. When we duplicate, we try to make an exact copy. I cannot find more precise words to differentiate them.
@@KKAw49 u can't find more specific words cause there's no difference between copy and duplicate, they are synonyms
Suzhou is a copy of Venice? How ignorant can the author be to say that!
You Chinese people are too proud.
@@bullymaguire2074 Because we have A LOT to be proud of. Not everything in this video is worth that of course, but one thing you are right about is that we are proud of our country, no doubt.
This comment was made in china
@@frost_spirit3314 and your point is???
@@RLyc1111 there’s one thing being proud of ones country there’s another thing being proud of copying someone else’s
your background sounds ❤️
Now it's Ping P's turn to turn himself into Poris Pohnson! What a masterpiece it would be!! Treat to the eyes! 😂🤣
Me. I want to visit France 🇫🇷
Ok bro me too
No Thanks
6:01 that not traditional Venetian clothes and the city is older than Venice and the canals are older than the cities canals of Venice. idk where u got that the city was a copy of Venice. I've been to the city and I saw more McDonald's than Italian restaurants and most of the restaurants was traditional Chinese. Also the only Italian restaurant I saw was the chian restaurants of domino's and pizza hut which aren't Italian.
Suzhou is a historic city in China, the canal is not copy from Venice, it having own function in past time, which can send the product, food from southern of China to Northern of China. Nowadays only became travel attractions.
There is a village in Russia names Paris, It got a name in memory of Russian army marching into napoleonic Paris. Recently, some Electric working company made eiffel tower looking transmision tower
*Don't let insecure thoughts ruin something amazing!!*
Is not about ruining something looks great now,... But it's a concern about not to get ruined with something that had existed greatly for centuries ago.
Suzhou？Please do more research before you say that of Suzhou. Other city may be a copy but Suzhou cannot be.
a lot of people said Made In China to a whole another level. But the True words are:
"This Took [Mom: We have _____ at home] to another level".
A replica Will never have the history of the real thing so will never have the same feeling
Kid: Hey mom can we go to Europe?
Mom: But son, we already have Europe at home.
The Europe at home:
哈哈哈哈！為什麼這篇沒有中文字幕？
Hippity hoppity,your landmark is now my property
-XiJinPing
i think it well demonstrates how globalization can quickly export western culture around the world. another truth is....doing copycat projects is MUCH cheaper than creating an original architecture project. and that's also why you see lots copycat projects in china, especially in those second and third-tier small cities in China.
How about Thailand? They have their own mini Effiel tower too lol
Me: Don't you dare to copy Dubai, china ??
China: Sorry, I can't Afford that. Lol
The biggest clown I saw today is you
Yes! The Chinese version of palm Island in Hainan province would appear!
I had nice dinner and classic music with my families alongside with the head of customers in that place when it only had 2nd floor since i was kid. There're several portraits oid-painting made. It was time i inherited the THRONE OF BA-LÊ
Hallstatt, Paris, and Venice are all in the Eastern Hemisphere.
it's an awesome work. it save cost going to Europe.
but I hope they will not loss their identity in architectural side like courtyard type of house.
Already lost. Noone can own houses in China. Everyone lives in Government leased tall blocks of concrete and steel.
Expectation on participating in a fancy dress competition :
The reality :
"serving pasta that tastes almost exactly like that from Italy" - I strongly doubt that
Next time do a video about how westerns copied old iran sciences and their streets and old buildings with Persepolis since Elam through persia until 1590
If china wanted to build Washington DC they will do it
Chinese are hard working people
We do have a replica of the Parliament house of the USA
It is used as a film production base
I guess building Washington DC is easier than build any European cities that already mentioned
A wouldn’t be surprised if they copy the pyramids of Egypt lol 💀😂😂
It's good for people who cannot travel to other countries... They can see Eiffel tower n other monuments in China itself...... I liked the Imitation of Halstatt a lot,
We also have grand Canal in Taguig Metro Manila
*Now, I do kind of agree that they should probably stop copying...*
*Just Imagine, if they had a copy of Burj Khalifa*
*I don’t think people would be drawn to Dubai anymore*
Now, they are successful in copy of “The Sun”
Still a long way to go
Dude Suzhou have a much longer history than Venice, and Suzhou doesn't look like Venice at all🙄
Big fan bro❤️❤️❤️
Don't include Suzhou here. It is very old traditional Chinese city. It is not a copy cat!
I mean at least they got the money to build it
No one can copy the Eiffel tower, or the Statue of Liberty, they are pure classics
I think replica would be a better word for it
Nothing in America is "classic" .
The cheese in my fridge is older
@@peterherrington3300 oh are you sure? Heard about the fucking cars? Ford? Mustangs? Yeah, they are classics.
Excuse me, Suzhou didn't replicate Venice. They have longer history..m