thanks man! great video, I'm kinda shocked that you don't have a bigger following! we'll be visiting Beijing with my pals in September and your video helped a lot 😊😊
It’ll be experience and your visit will certainly contrast with how this country is presented in the Western media. Not saying it’s perfect, but living here has given me a different perspective. I hope your trip goes well and let me know if there’s anything I can do to help out.
Subscribing for what??? You should care less about vanity and more about bringing real benefits to China. Quit subjecting yourself to the whims of foreigners. 很可惜，你明显太没见过世面了
@@aaabbb-py5xd 你的英文非常好👍 Not sure which whims you’re talking about but if you’d like to see a video that promotes a bit of Chinese “real life” and culture, be sure to check out my 北京井盖 video! I’m sure that’s what you’ll appreciate! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
@@stevenslanguagevlog Lol, high praise indeed as you struggle with reading comprehension. You can promote or demote China as you see fit, but like your god jesus, China simply is and simply doesn't care about your judgments, one way or another. After decades of "freedom" propaganda, such sentiments are only proper, and they've been clearly expressed. Only with illiteracy or wishful thinking could you have drawn any other conclusion. To be unnecessarily explicit, I also don't care if commenting here will promote your videos. I'm simply here to advise my fellow Chinese to be less stupid and naive. For China, there is no escaping the New Cold War, so better the Chinese wise up and lose all such fantasies, just to have even a chance of emerging unscathed and a winner.
As a Chinese in Montreal I gotta say that bixi was working on something here, bikes are handled and docks are filled. The thing is the planning of Montreal has really limited the use of it. Docking( I assume is a must here) have made the last kilo even more complex as it won't work well in snowing winter and because the working hour destination in DT is so concentrated so there will always the case they are out of bikes. or more likely they are out of dock and you must ride 700 meter, walk back because you can't fix it into that gps area but have to dock it. Btw I don't think that's some social score, it's a score that mostly measures you credit in huabei, I never seen nor heard companies or even government post demand such thing especially if it is about wrong biking spot.
Also the rise of grocery (for a Chinese always hit newon and check every flayer in 5km, otherwise it's >70% at least ) was actually not that bad, 40~% may look scary than ~15 back home but it looks much better than places like Vancouver or Toronto.
I think Bixi in Montreal was my introduction to the shared biking system and I thought it was awesome. Beijing has done a considerable job in making the shared bike system work a lot better over the years, including getting rid of the locking mechanism (all over the internet now), increasing parking spaces (using GPS coordinates), and the overall quality of the bikes has improved. As for the social credit system, I know, a few people have commented that it's this or that or doesn't exist at all, but there is a system that docks points for certain infractions and it goes on a register that is tracked. When I couldn't figure out how to lock the bike in an apparently non-lockable place, I forced the APP to consider it "I forgot to lock," which then sent me a text message saying I was docked 0.5 points for the infraction.
@@stevenslanguagevlog I I recall the name here, it's like a equifax only work for Ali so nobody look at, and for the Docking it is indeed annoying if u are in a hurry, My experience is you must wait for a few seconds before trying to dock the bike, follow the mainstream of them and always make sure you are in that blue zone, I don't know if it was the same in bj (my city kinda kept e bike only for cost reasons ) but I think the zone is marked use not so precised gps coord so you must make sure whatever sends the signal is 10cm inside that zone
@@stevenslanguagevlogyou can’t even clearly explain this social score. You got docked 0.5 so what? Where’s your score? Most people I know says this social credit score does not exist
Very informative. Thank you very much. I'm not a fan of cameras or social credit, but it's not my country. It looks as if, despite the quirks, you actually enjoy living there.
lol yea I've made it work... though the pandemic had a hand in keeping me in place for a while. It's actually hard to believe that that whole thing lasted four years more or less and so only now am I really appreciating what it's like to live in this country without all the work-travel I had to do before. The cameras... think of an entire state was put into one city, would the number of cameras be any different? Red light cameras, security cameras, speed cameras, etc.?
There is no so-called social credit system at all, I am always surprised how many people are brainwashed by western media. There are credit/point based systems in China indeed, just the same as other counties in the world, such as banks, airlines, supermarkets, or e-commerce platforms.
There is no so-called social credit, which is purely the propaganda of the western media. What u may experience in China is the credit/point system existing in banks, supermarkets, airlines or e-commerce platforms, which are the same as other countries in the world. In terms of camera, London is one of the Most Surveilled Cities in the world, does it frighten you to visit London?
@@derek849 I'm not entirely sure if they call it exactly a "social credit system", but it does refer to what a person does within society, ie, whether they have defaulted on debts, missed payments to banks or credit cards, or been caught stealing something from a store or even running a red light or, as I found out, not parking a share bike in the right location. The relationship between China's and the US's version of social credit system might be very similar, but with China the vast majority of people don't have nearly as much disposable income nor access to credit as people in the US or other majorly developed countries. Whether the penalties are the same, I'm not sure as I've never lived in the US. As for the fear of travelling to London, yes, I would say I have a similar fear despite the ubiquity of cameras, but not because of the cameras, but because of the people who might take issue with living in China, who might not like someone from China being in their pub, or a variety of other personal reasons. Likewise with New York or even Paris which has had its share of fires lately. And it's not like Chinese people exactly love all the cameras either, it's just there's only so much they can do about it.
@@stevenslanguagevlog What you mentioned is common sense, debts and missing payments are managed by the banking system, crime is managed by the police system, running red light is managed by the transportation system, u either lose your credit or get fined, or even have a crime record, which is exactly the same as other countries. I have never heard that parking a shared bike inappropriately is a big deal, if it does impact your subsequent use of the shared bikes, it’s just the company’s policy driven by business, which is totally understandable. I think the original comment was talking about the scary social credit system portrayed by the western media, otherwise it wouldn’t have been brought up because it is just common sense.
Also if you have critical thinking skills… they scanned their account to rent the bike, they need to return bike to stop the charge. They will make sure bike is parked back otherwise their account will continued to be charged. Really no sense to make this “social credit score” argument
If you are not a criminal or going to commit any crimes, why are you worried about the cameras? Tell me which major cities around the world don't install cameras? ... some people are such a disgusting hypocrite!
Umm I don't see him arguing against cameras... I think most people from the west who complain about cameras... Just need to be reminded about the crime in their country... And they go quite really fast
lots of reasons, not all of them have to do with a security state. If it's being recorded, can someone else access the recordings? Red light cameras are just one of the types of cameras that won't understand "that one time I had" type of argument. But, not sure where you live if your city is crowded with cameras, but I know a lot of people are suspicious of having them around. They do provide a sense of security, but that's at the expense of having everything you do documented for playback.
London is one of the Most Surveilled Cities in the world, I have never seen anyone complaining about it. Double standards exist everywhere when it comes to China, no matter what China does, it’s just wrong.
Many things in life are documented, you're 1 of the 25 mil people living in BJ, why would the authorities took the trouble to pick on you looking for you in the playback. Unless there's good reason to believe you're up to no good, isn't it ?
Go to a town square, wave the Flag of the Dalai Lama while shouting in Mandarin, “Where are the Tiananmen Square Disappeared?” If nothing happens to you, I will agree that China as free as you imply. 😊
@@stevenslanguagevlog Yes, absolutely. I am Taiwanese. I am actively involved in finding housing, employment, and cultural integration for refugees fleeing the CCP (most recently from Hong Kong). So, yes, I actually physically do indeed engage in this sort of activity. Very regularly.
the reason you think there is still a hint of pollution is the threat of the sand storm from the Country of Mongolia, because of the burning of the grassland for grazing fact check please PEACE
I don't understand, the hint of pollution is the threat of the sand storm? But sandstorms aren't made by burning grasslands. I think what you're trying to say is that not all smog starts in China. I don't doubt this at all, as Mongolian winters can affect those in Beijing. Beijing isn't the only one affected by such smog or pollution, you only need to look south to Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan or Zhengzhou. Not to mention Lanzhou. I'm guessing you're arguing that Beijing's pollution is caused by Mongolia, though I'd probably look closer for the source of the smog than the next country over. Thanks for commenting though. :)
@@stevenslanguagevlog please ask locals there, they can explain to you better than I do, with the EVs so popular, didn't you notice there are almost no ice car noices on the road? just saying enjoy n have fun PEACE
@@choifayue9848 So you're not in Beijing or in China? And yes, I've noticed lots of EVs, yet no explanation for where they draw their energy from. Coal is still cheaper than anything else. And if we're going to be citing people familiar with the matter, I have heard first hand from someone who had an internship in a green company and saw how and where the "green energy" goes... just into the ground.
@@stevenslanguagevlog NO. cn holds the top production of wind, hydraulic, solar and battery power energy of the world, I believe US just put ~50 to 100% of added tax on cn exports wind turbine, solar panels and EVs to the States the bus and taxi are all electric in Beijing I rest my case thanks for the discussion
@@choifayue9848 Lol yes, thank you for the discussion and I'm glad the case is rested. As I alluded to before, any country can produce any amount of green energy it wants but if it's not being put into the grid or it still falls way behind the output of other forms, or, for another matter, if a country decides to buy a bunch of carbon credits or other financial interests that would offset its on-paper emissions, then it's green energy would certainly look very good.
thanks man! great video, I'm kinda shocked that you don't have a bigger following! we'll be visiting Beijing with my pals in September and your video helped a lot 😊😊
It’ll be experience and your visit will certainly contrast with how this country is presented in the Western media. Not saying it’s perfect, but living here has given me a different perspective. I hope your trip goes well and let me know if there’s anything I can do to help out.
Watching from Toronto Canada. Enjoy your video and a new subscriber.
Thanks!
Hi Steven. Great video, but more importantly, an even greater beard. Greetings from 东北. New subscriber.
🤣🤣🤣 thanks! for both! welcome!
Subscribing for what??? You should care less about vanity and more about bringing real benefits to China. Quit subjecting yourself to the whims of foreigners. 很可惜，你明显太没见过世面了
@@aaabbb-py5xd 你的英文非常好👍 Not sure which whims you’re talking about but if you’d like to see a video that promotes a bit of Chinese “real life” and culture, be sure to check out my 北京井盖 video! I’m sure that’s what you’ll appreciate! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
@@stevenslanguagevlog Lol, high praise indeed as you struggle with reading comprehension. You can promote or demote China as you see fit, but like your god jesus, China simply is and simply doesn't care about your judgments, one way or another. After decades of "freedom" propaganda, such sentiments are only proper, and they've been clearly expressed. Only with illiteracy or wishful thinking could you have drawn any other conclusion. To be unnecessarily explicit, I also don't care if commenting here will promote your videos. I'm simply here to advise my fellow Chinese to be less stupid and naive. For China, there is no escaping the New Cold War, so better the Chinese wise up and lose all such fantasies, just to have even a chance of emerging unscathed and a winner.
Cameras are quite common across the world, London is the city with most cameras per capita.....
so I've been told. How is getting into Gatwick or Heathrow these days? They always seem to be ready to block someone from coming in.
As a Chinese in Montreal I gotta say that bixi was working on something here, bikes are handled and docks are filled. The thing is the planning of Montreal has really limited the use of it.
Docking( I assume is a must here) have made the last kilo even more complex as it won't work well in snowing winter and because the working hour destination in DT is so concentrated so there will always the case they are out of bikes. or more likely they are out of dock and you must ride 700 meter, walk back because you can't fix it into that gps area but have to dock it.
Btw I don't think that's some social score, it's a score that mostly measures you credit in huabei, I never seen nor heard companies or even government post demand such thing especially if it is about wrong biking spot.
Also the rise of grocery (for a Chinese always hit newon and check every flayer in 5km, otherwise it's >70% at least ) was actually not that bad, 40~% may look scary than ~15 back home but it looks much better than places like Vancouver or Toronto.
I think Bixi in Montreal was my introduction to the shared biking system and I thought it was awesome. Beijing has done a considerable job in making the shared bike system work a lot better over the years, including getting rid of the locking mechanism (all over the internet now), increasing parking spaces (using GPS coordinates), and the overall quality of the bikes has improved.
As for the social credit system, I know, a few people have commented that it's this or that or doesn't exist at all, but there is a system that docks points for certain infractions and it goes on a register that is tracked. When I couldn't figure out how to lock the bike in an apparently non-lockable place, I forced the APP to consider it "I forgot to lock," which then sent me a text message saying I was docked 0.5 points for the infraction.
@@stevenslanguagevlog I I recall the name here, it's like a equifax only work for Ali so nobody look at, and for the Docking it is indeed annoying if u are in a hurry, My experience is you must wait for a few seconds before trying to dock the bike, follow the mainstream of them and always make sure you are in that blue zone, I don't know if it was the same in bj (my city kinda kept e bike only for cost reasons ) but I think the zone is marked use not so precised gps coord so you must make sure whatever sends the signal is 10cm inside that zone
@@stevenslanguagevlog 支付宝里信用分 只会影响你的花呗额度、贷款额度。
@@stevenslanguagevlogyou can’t even clearly explain this social score. You got docked 0.5 so what? Where’s your score? Most people I know says this social credit score does not exist
Howdy neighbor, I'm living just one metro-stop over 😁
Why you put BBC filter on the thumbnail?😅
What's BBC filter? It's a red tint, red = good fortune in China.
Suka2 loe deh😂🤪
He's doing this to attract clicks as China-bad themes is a magnet in the West.
Very informative. Thank you very much. I'm not a fan of cameras or social credit, but it's not my country.
It looks as if, despite the quirks, you actually enjoy living there.
lol yea I've made it work... though the pandemic had a hand in keeping me in place for a while. It's actually hard to believe that that whole thing lasted four years more or less and so only now am I really appreciating what it's like to live in this country without all the work-travel I had to do before.
The cameras... think of an entire state was put into one city, would the number of cameras be any different? Red light cameras, security cameras, speed cameras, etc.?
There is no so-called social credit system at all, I am always surprised how many people are brainwashed by western media. There are credit/point based systems in China indeed, just the same as other counties in the world, such as banks, airlines, supermarkets, or e-commerce platforms.
There is no so-called social credit, which is purely the propaganda of the western media. What u may experience in China is the credit/point system existing in banks, supermarkets, airlines or e-commerce platforms, which are the same as other countries in the world.
In terms of camera, London is one of the Most Surveilled Cities in the world, does it frighten you to visit London?
@@derek849 I'm not entirely sure if they call it exactly a "social credit system", but it does refer to what a person does within society, ie, whether they have defaulted on debts, missed payments to banks or credit cards, or been caught stealing something from a store or even running a red light or, as I found out, not parking a share bike in the right location.
The relationship between China's and the US's version of social credit system might be very similar, but with China the vast majority of people don't have nearly as much disposable income nor access to credit as people in the US or other majorly developed countries. Whether the penalties are the same, I'm not sure as I've never lived in the US.
As for the fear of travelling to London, yes, I would say I have a similar fear despite the ubiquity of cameras, but not because of the cameras, but because of the people who might take issue with living in China, who might not like someone from China being in their pub, or a variety of other personal reasons. Likewise with New York or even Paris which has had its share of fires lately.
And it's not like Chinese people exactly love all the cameras either, it's just there's only so much they can do about it.
@@stevenslanguagevlog What you mentioned is common sense, debts and missing payments are managed by the banking system, crime is managed by the police system, running red light is managed by the transportation system, u either lose your credit or get fined, or even have a crime record, which is exactly the same as other countries. I have never heard that parking a shared bike inappropriately is a big deal, if it does impact your subsequent use of the shared bikes, it’s just the company’s policy driven by business, which is totally understandable.
I think the original comment was talking about the scary social credit system portrayed by the western media, otherwise it wouldn’t have been brought up because it is just common sense.
cool man
thanks
Are you Canadian?
yes. and you?
Im Chinese
@@kayeefu979 could be Canadian-Chinese?
@@stevenslanguagevlog no, just Chinese 😂 living in China
@@kayeefu979 😂😂
I'm from Thailand. Do you like Thailand ? Welcome to Bangkok Thailand
Bangkok is a special place, have been there a few times over the years. Despite the heat and the heaviness of the city, I'd go back any chance I get.
@@stevenslanguagevlog There are many Thai restaurants in the United States. Americans love to travel to Thailand. Do Canadians do the same?
@@BB-yi6qn yes I guess I’ve known a few people visit there from Canada. Maybe not directly, but on their journeys to the region I think.
You mentioned social credit score… it doesn’t exist. Just ask any Chinese people there
Also if you have critical thinking skills… they scanned their account to rent the bike, they need to return bike to stop the charge. They will make sure bike is parked back otherwise their account will continued to be charged. Really no sense to make this “social credit score” argument
If you are not a criminal or going to commit any crimes, why are you worried about the cameras? Tell me which major cities around the world don't install cameras? ... some people are such a disgusting hypocrite!
Umm I don't see him arguing against cameras... I think most people from the west who complain about cameras... Just need to be reminded about the crime in their country... And they go quite really fast
lots of reasons, not all of them have to do with a security state. If it's being recorded, can someone else access the recordings? Red light cameras are just one of the types of cameras that won't understand "that one time I had" type of argument. But, not sure where you live if your city is crowded with cameras, but I know a lot of people are suspicious of having them around. They do provide a sense of security, but that's at the expense of having everything you do documented for playback.
London is one of the Most Surveilled Cities in the world, I have never seen anyone complaining about it.
Double standards exist everywhere when it comes to China, no matter what China does, it’s just wrong.
LOL, wow... a bit emotional are we?
Many things in life are documented, you're 1 of the 25 mil people living in BJ, why would the authorities took the trouble to pick on you looking for you in the playback.
Unless there's good reason to believe you're up to no good, isn't it ?
Go to a town square, wave the Flag of the Dalai Lama while shouting in Mandarin, “Where are the Tiananmen Square Disappeared?” If nothing happens to you, I will agree that China as free as you imply. 😊
Not sure how that implies any sort of freedom, and I'm also wondering if this is what you like to do in your own time and place?
@@stevenslanguagevlog Yes, absolutely. I am Taiwanese. I am actively involved in finding housing, employment, and cultural integration for refugees fleeing the CCP (most recently from Hong Kong). So, yes, I actually physically do indeed engage in this sort of activity. Very regularly.
@@wordscapes5690 IN short, an anti-China troll LOL
@@tweedy4sg Sigh. Yes, you found me. I’m just an anti Ch8na troll. Fine.
the reason you think there is still a hint of pollution is the threat of the sand storm from the Country of Mongolia, because of the burning of the grassland for grazing fact check please PEACE
I don't understand, the hint of pollution is the threat of the sand storm? But sandstorms aren't made by burning grasslands. I think what you're trying to say is that not all smog starts in China. I don't doubt this at all, as Mongolian winters can affect those in Beijing.
Beijing isn't the only one affected by such smog or pollution, you only need to look south to Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan or Zhengzhou. Not to mention Lanzhou. I'm guessing you're arguing that Beijing's pollution is caused by Mongolia, though I'd probably look closer for the source of the smog than the next country over.
Thanks for commenting though. :)
@@stevenslanguagevlog please ask locals there, they can explain to you better than I do, with the EVs so popular, didn't you notice there are almost no ice car noices on the road? just saying enjoy n have fun PEACE
@@choifayue9848 So you're not in Beijing or in China?
And yes, I've noticed lots of EVs, yet no explanation for where they draw their energy from. Coal is still cheaper than anything else. And if we're going to be citing people familiar with the matter, I have heard first hand from someone who had an internship in a green company and saw how and where the "green energy" goes... just into the ground.
@@stevenslanguagevlog NO. cn holds the top production of wind, hydraulic, solar and battery power energy of the world, I believe US just put ~50 to 100% of added tax on cn exports wind turbine, solar panels and EVs to the States the bus and taxi are all electric in Beijing I rest my case thanks for the discussion
@@choifayue9848 Lol yes, thank you for the discussion and I'm glad the case is rested. As I alluded to before, any country can produce any amount of green energy it wants but if it's not being put into the grid or it still falls way behind the output of other forms, or, for another matter, if a country decides to buy a bunch of carbon credits or other financial interests that would offset its on-paper emissions, then it's green energy would certainly look very good.
Nice girly hair at your back. Go visit a barbershop.
@@winglo1697 😂😂😂 douche
@@stevenslanguagevlog haha, he is obsessed with men's hair. Maybe watches too much alfredo_lewis