The Story of Shanghai, China's Largest City
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024
- Shanghai is China's largest city with 25 million people. With more tall buildings than any other city on earth, it is China's economic engine. But it also has challenges, like the oppressiveness of the Communist party, the inequality created by the hukou system, and sea-level rise.
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Of all the cities on earth, the pace of civilizational transformation is most evident here. With over 25,000 buildings standing 12 stories or more, it has more high rises than anywhere else and is the most important economic engine in China. But there are real challenges on the horizon for this city of 25 million: some that took a pandemic to fully emerge, and others that grow more frightening with each passing year.
This is Shanghai, a bellwether of the 21st century.
The most populous city in the People’s Republic of China rises on the low-lying swamplands where the tributaries and lakes of the Yangtze River Delta meet the East China Sea, and the vast Pacific Ocean beyond.
Founded in the tenth century, its easy access to the extensive Asian interior made it an ideal location for those seeking to trade regionally and - eventually - with the empires of the West. In the 1800s, after a prolonged struggle with imperialists who used subterfuge and sabotage - like hooking millions, China was forced to allow foreigners greater access to its markets-and control over much of Shanghai. The city became a foothold for the British, French, Americans, and Japanese, who took possession of designated areas in the city, called “concessions,” where they established businesses that extracted great resources and wealth. Many Chinese call this the “century of humiliation.” Shanghai was essentially split into a “Chinese” half and a more modern European-styled “Western” half home to around 35,000 foreigners. Despite this dysfunction, the combined area thrived and by the mid-1930s it was one of the largest cities in the world with three million inhabitants.
Shanghai is where the second world truly began, as Japan unleashed Blitzkrieg. The combination of siege warfare and aerial bombardment, followed by attacks and house-to-house fighting, produced the horrific scenes now associated with Europe, but was first reported in China’s megacity.
Despite this nightmare, a glimmer of humanity still flickered in Shanghai, as evidenced by its unconditional welcoming of any Jews fleeing.
The war’s aftermath brought the Communists to power. This forced many foreign businesses to move south to independent Hong Kong. Despite this drain on capital and talent, the economic heart of the People’s Republic of China remained in Shanghai, and for the next four decades, this vital port city provided 70% of all the tax revenue that was collected and spent nationwide by China’s central party, whose bureaucrats were ensconced in Beijing-1,100 km away.
This was an untenable burden on the Shanghainese, and in 1991 two of their local leaders seized a rare opportunity to change things. After the crackdown on student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, China’s Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping wanted new management in Beijing. The reins of power were turned over to two former mayors of Shanghai: Jiang Zemin, who succeeded Xiaoping as paramount leader, and Zhu Rongji, who became Vice Premier. They declared that Shanghai would be the “dragon’s head” of China’s modernization.
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I missed your megacities series. So glad it is back!
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This series is what made this channel I don't know why you stopped.
The guy got Trump Derangement Syndrome. Stopped posting for years.
He ran out of ideas
@@nitendo100 ran out of ideas? There are literally hundreds of cities worth explaining.
Wym he stoppwd
Agree, totally!
Had the pleasure of living in Shanghai for a summer in college - the pace of construction is no joke, what would take years in any other city only takes a month in Shanghai. Also the size of the buildings in on the waterfront in Pudong is no joke, its like having 10 different World Trade Centers next to each other. One specific thing that surprised me a lot in Shanghai was the subway is actually very easy to get around and understand vs other large cities.
Sounds like a fascinating experience.
right?! the shanghai subway is so great
Shanghai native here. I'm glad you enjoyed living in Shanghai. The Metro system works because it was built with a focus on scale and practicality. Many stations are not so beautiful in style of some European systems, but they work and provided a foundation to modernize the city.
China's mass transportation systems are some of the best in the world and are built at insane speed.
You are no joke either
A TDC video is awesome. A TDC megacity video is the best thing I'll watch all month. So glad to see this and hope to see more.
Thanks SillyHead, have you checked out my most recent episodes yet?
growing up in shanghai i thought all cities around the world was like this until i visited US and India
I was born and grew up in Shanghai and when I moved to Adelaide(Australia) as a kid I was so surprised by how quiet it was
@@nanhty8321 if u’ve ever came to Sydney, u will find how similar it is to Shanghai, from streets to the personality of the city, most important, house prices 😂
@@kemingyu309 As a Shanghainese I have to say even Sydney is way quieter than Shanghai
@@kemingyu309 housing prices lmfaoo
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I lived in Shanghai for two years and I had the time of my life, I used to live in the French concessions and literally Shanghai doesn't ask anything to other big metropolis in the world. It has all kinds of restaurants, cute cafes, cool bars, galleries, shops, etc. Also it was so diverse, my yoga instructor was Australian and all the other people attending the class from all over the world. Uhh I miss it now, maybe one day I'll be back.
Yellow fever ??
@@halfvolley11 yes because if a non asian appreciates asia , that means he/she has yellow fever.
FORMER French concession, former. 🤧 decolonization weren’t easy for anyone.
I’ve lived in china my whole life and just came back to the uk today. Can speak fluent Chinese so will use it in the future.
@@siddhesh2703 Statistically speaking - YEP, yellow fever is real.
Also, its a He not She. White girls don't like Asian men - FACTS. In my office all the asian girls are with foreign boyfriends/husbands, not a single is single, but the Asian men are 50% single.
My favourite city 💕💕 love from India 🇮🇳.
Shanghai looks amazing
l love India to
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always happy to see a TDC notification on my phone, glad you’re still uploading
I;m an architect living in shanghai for 12 years. I have seen the main rise of the urban and architecture development in the last decade. Cudos to the producer, as most of the information is true to most extend. The issues about flood problems, espcially with tyhphoon during summer months are an issue that existed already hundreds of years ago. And until rising sea levels will effect shanghai, the city will come up with a mega-plan, that i am sure of😄
I’m so glad to see this series come back. Glad to see this fantastic work man.
Thanks Avishek!
I had the absolute privilege of being in Shanghai throughout seven years of senior school and the fact that I still think about it as often as I do is a testament to the magnetism and charisma of the place. Love the vid
Thanks James, that sounds like a fantastic experience. Where do you call home now?
@@TheDailyConversation Birmingham, UK. Not quite the high rise metropolis of Shanghai!!
@@jamescartwright1877not a chance lmao, Birmingham is like the most memed city in the UK
I lived in Shanghai and loved it; it's the best city in Asia for what it offers (if not for the air quality). A city where yesterday meets tomorrow New cities in Asia are modelled after the Shanghai Development Model, which was the fastest-growing city in the world. It became a megapolis and a modern city in less than two decades. But I hope they also restore its old charms, let old districts co-exists, which were being replaced by new, large shopping malls and skyscrapers with each passing month all around. Also, income disparity was increasing at an alarming pace. Shanghai has so much to offer, even more than Tokyo in terms of experiences, nightlife, affordable taxis and its infrastructural quality is better and more massively scaled than any city in the USA.
shenzhen
as someone from shanghai, how was the traffic XD
Pudong wasn't actually a maze of historic streets, but an industrial/ rural district of factories, warehouses and paddy fields. Also China is now a Services dominated economy, and although still robust in manufacturing, it's 'workforce' is largely robotised, a sea change over the last decade. The Chinese population is now nearing 75% middle class in the cities and 60% overall (by comparison US is 50%)
Ah the long awaited Shanghai 😌. Amazing video as always.
China Suzhou, Guangzhou, Chongqin and Shanghai, 🇨🇳 My Dream Place! The Place for getting Rich! 😍🇨🇳🤗😍
Such a good video, I’m so glad you’re back!
Fantastic video! Loving these so much
I just discovered your channel. Amazing work!
Great job, Bryce! Well made. I recognized a number of the animated and motion graphics clips we made together ;-)
Thanks my friend, I'm all about recycling ;)
Why u privated your los Angeles video
This is an amazing video, your megacity series is the best.
Glad you like them!
great video TDC. Shanghai looks amazing.
You know you’re watching a neoliberal channel when the music gets lively after saying “taxes were slashed”
You are a master historian. I can't believe how much research is required for each of these Megacity videos. Good work!
Glad you enjoy it!
No, he knows litter about China. just another brain washed by the west media one. He has not been in China at least last ten years, or even never visited China.
Fantastic video! Will you be doing similar biopics on more European cities in the future? Would love your take on Rome, London, Berlin, Amsterdam etc., or even smaller cities.
Thank you, Daniel. Indeed I will! London is coming soon, but first Los Angeles, Kinshasa, Tehran, Chengdu, and Bangkok.
@@TheDailyConversation Awesome, love your vids.
Why you privated your los Angeles video
Arguably Chongqing has a greater population but Shanghai's urban core is larger.
For the hukou, I don't think it is as important as before. First, there is potential access to public schools at least to the 6th grade now for migrant worker kids. Migrants in Shanghai also now pay same social costs as locals unlike in the past. But also increasing cost of living in Shanghai and improving conditions in smaller cities make a lot of people question whether they should move to Shanghai or stay. But hukou reform which is badly needed is very political, and a lot of Beijing / Shanghai residents oppose it thinking it will only benefit outsiders despite the fact these migrants pay into these services in equal manner (migrants = domestic immigrants for them).
But the greatest threat is indeed climate change. not just rising water but rising temperatures. This year already more than 35 days above 35 celsius and the wet bulb temperature is even worse
Honestly, this is the worst video I've seen on Shanghai. A shallow look into a complex city representative of just basic online research packaged up in a 13 minute biased opinion piece with a bunch of B-roll footage he collected off the internet.
That's not the worst part though. It absolutely baffles me the sheer audacity the creator has in creating a video on a city he clearly has never been too, and I'd wager probably doesn't even know a single person from Shanghai. How confident he is in sharing his biased opinions on the social and economic development of a city that's absolutely miles ahead any major western city on the planet right now.
Like genuine question, why are westerners so confidently arrogant, are you guys not taught self reflection or humility or maybe just to stop and think. "Hey you know what, maybe I shouldn't do a misleading opinion video on a city that I have absolutely no idea about" or is it just for the likes and subscribes?
I can see thru their hidden agenda in one minute... Use any opportunity to smear China
That's true, so I also question his observation and comments on Delhi very much.
Really? This seems a bit much. I think that this information matches up with much of the research I have conducted about Shanghai population and info! But that's just me.
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Yet the Japanese still refuses to formally APOLOGISE for their crimes against Asia and China in particular.
12:15 “Luckily, Shanghai is not the only city facing the effects of sea level rise.” 😆
-Thanos
i feel the same thing, lol
"At last you bring back the waited series'😌
i hate when theres people say China cant be rich without USA blablabla , i mean fair enough but they also forget China give lot money to american too ! China joined WTO in year 2000. In past 20 years China has made 8.3 trillion USD by trading with U.S alone. And U.S has made 8 trillion USD from China. So both countries have made good amount of money. The difference is China used those 8.3 trillion USD to build infrastructures, R&D research centers, and helped extreme poverty 800 million Chinese became middle class. On the other hand, 8 trillion USD that U.S has made went into a few individual's wallet. To U.S the distribution of the wealth went wrong, the average Americans did not benefit much.
There are two methods of distributing the wealth: socialism and capitalism. Everyone knows China is socialism. But that's not 100% true, China is hybird of Socialism and Capitalism. The entire country is a giant corporation, CCP acts as a CEO of the corporation and the board of directors. CCP makes plans, determine which industry sectors need extra boost in next 20 years, which sectors are vulnerable in current situation, CCP also determine the distribution of the wealth. everyone in this giant corporation receives dividend and certain portion of the wealth. So just think
of China as Microsoft or Apple, CCP elite members are engineers, master strategists. They are not politicians, if you put them on TV, they can barely talk, probably also camera shy. but they are the master planner, unlike U.S politicians who can yup on TV for hours.
There is nothing wrong with capitalism, but U.S let the greed of corporation out of control. The richer the corporation and individuals, the less taxes they pay. Look at Apple, they pay much less
taxes than they should. Also one of the biggest issue in U.S is armament manufacturers are all private owned, they are not state owned!! If there are no war around the globe, how they can make money? so every year they spend millions of dollars to lobby congress or politicians and come up all sorts of reports claiming China threat in south China sea, Russia threat to the world,
terrorism in middle east. That way U.S can buy more weapons, war ships, jets from them. For the country has less than 250 years of history, U.S only have 16 years of no war with others.
This is quality content!! Thank you!
I bet Chinese will be able to tackle the rising sea level. Biggest civilization on earth, since ever.
Very nice ,I pray I visit one day
Maybe CCP will lock you up if you utter some wrong words. LOL
it looks a great city to visit.
One of the best videos I’ve ever watched. Thank you 😊😊
Wow, thank you!
NI HAO MA from INDONESIA!🙋
So happy your back please don’t leave us
Thanks Darrin, Los Angeles coming soon!
Great videos! Thank you!
My pleasure!
Chinese top-tier mega cities are the best example of modern, fast-paced development. Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou are eye-candies. Truly magnificent and amazing. It is far from being the ideal one but no one can deny that it changed so many lives
OWH MY GOD YES FINALLY. A megacity vid. Thank you for making it man. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for coming back to the channel! We're dropping a 20+ minute MC doc on Los Angeles in the next week ;)
@@TheDailyConversation you made my day just by commenting that. Thank you man.
LMAO who is “raising serious doubts about the competence of the leadership in Beijing”?
Adrian Zenz? ASPI, or your NED bosses? Who is raising concerns?
shoe licker
When it comes to Shanghai, the creator uses it as an opportunity to critique the Chinese government in Beijing yet in the New Delhi episode (a city way worse off than Shanghai) no such critique of the Indian federal government exists.
Does this have something to do with FReEdOm?
Yes!
I couldn't agree more, this is an absolutely terrible video by a creator who clearly has no idea about the day to day developments of a city like Shanghai. It's just regurgitated google search articles mixed in with free online b-roll clips. Dreadful
But the hukou system seems like a really terrible idea. Isn't it?
@@prasanth2601 It's not CCP's problem. It dates back to ancient China and a lot countries under Chinese culture influence also has/had it until last few decades including Korea, Japan and Vietnam. It's not designed to put people into different classes. It aims to give local population a certain advantage in the local region. Shanghainese enjoy more benefits in Shanghai over others but someone enjoy benefits in their local city over someone whose Hukou is registered in Shanghai. It's like going to college in different states in the US. The system is not the origin of the problem. It's the unbalanced development across different regions in China.
@@prasanth2601 if no hukou, all Chinese will go to bei shang guang shen to send their kids to schools there. what an apocalypse scene
It was not only city who save Jews . It was phillipines and INDIA also
Wow, recently researching Shanghai French concession where my mom lived for 10 years and did Madame Chiang Kai-shek hair, on Lafayette at Pierres.🛎
Vietnam & Cambodia 😊
Yoooooo finally a video on my city!
Great commentary, I love these little informed reports
I want an entire video just on Shanghai water management pls
@user-uk1bd2gd2t 如今，使用废水来检测毒品和病毒等化学物质非常普遍。 可悲的是，在世界上大多数城市，很少有人关心我们的环境和水道。
Your videos are remarkable, thank you ten fold for your dedication, I learned a lot
God Bless you❤❤❤
You are so welcome
Please made a documentary on Shenzhen
I hope the comments about the politic stuff will be the same for US and other western countries, because no one is saint. Sry if i sound mean, but truth shouldn't be go in just one direction.
Said so, i'm grateful to encounter this channel, i can't wait to see others cities and other kind of videos. :)
I try to call things as I see them regardless of the place.
The thing not accurate is that rural HuKou is more valuable than Urban HuKou nowadays because taxes for rural farmers are free and farmers can own land now
very well done
Please do Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Thank youu 🥰
as a chinese born and lived decades in shanghai, I laugh at the view from non chinese on things such as government, I am even shocked at the comment that sea level blah blah blah, chinese for thousands of years always thrive, find solutions for all problems and come out stronger. in case you guys don't have education of history, china has always been the powerful country for thousands of years, while the west only the recent 200 years, and it is over for the west now. yeah I know you guys feel jealous and bitter. but you can't fight with history and its trend.
Asia now full with this type of city.
Westerners just can't help themselves when discussing non-Western nations, and ESPECIALLY when they get too powerful for the Westerners' tastes.
SubhanAllah ❤
上海的朋友们都是因为我的生活方式很好的人生态度和态度混为一谈。
Thanks Canada and The original British Empire.😊
>Deng Xiaoping smiles in his grave
Lisbon would be an awesome video
Thanks for the suggestion!
cidade pequena sem relevância global.
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It was for their peace and severance entitlements. 😊
Should do London and Paris!
Hi Kyle, London coming soon and I already did Paris: ruclips.net/video/bdObzSwVAw4/видео.html
@@TheDailyConversation What happened to your Los Angeles, California video?
Meh, mediocre documentary. I can see the author of this video isn't much of an expert of any major megacity, but rather a collector of informatiom, some valid and some false. Without knowing which is true he/she just put up a bunch of random narratives that don't connect together.
the communist party is not oppressive
Great video, but putting the research sources behind a paywall is absurd.
i live there
LONG LIVE CHINA
Utterly amazing. This is what you can do when you are a trillionaire. LOTS OF MONEY.
Shanghai does look utterly amazing
Good food.
Just watch ur video, very informative. I like Shanghai 👍
Thank you so much 👍
People can cry about how the corona was handled in China . But there’s also a reason they had it much better then us for a good amount of time .
From China, people in western region has a comparatively lower life expectancy is because western part of CN is in much higher altitude, with low oxygen content, some part like Qinghai Tibet Plateau is not even suitable for human habitation.
Beautiful city
We'd agree - a super city.
Great program
Thanks Boyi!
Why is there a clip of Hong Kong at 7:29 when this is a video about Shanghai?
your intonation is throwing me off so much
Impressive 👍🏽 China US India UK 😽🍷
Interesting video. A small point: the pronunciation of several Chinese words is incorrect beginning with BEIJING which has a hard 'j' as in 'jump. Chinese sounds can be westernized but you take the chance of failing to be understood when the pronunciation is inaccurate.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll keep working on my pronunciation.
Great China
I love Shanghai. Amazing city
I absolutely support the discipline of the Chinese policy to protect its citizens from the virus Covid 19 THEY SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES.
First post in 3 months,what happened?
At 7:30 Hong Kong just shows up to say hi 😅
May I provide some constructive criticism here? You need to understand China could not "raise all boats" (no country has done that), and you need to learn more about how China is transforming secondary and tertiary cites, and the countryside. I'm afraid your presentation of economic inequality is quite biased and seems to imply this is a unique product f the Chinese system. In fact, China has taken more people out of poverty faster than any other nation in history and the USA has worse economic disparity. Also, is this supposed to be about Shanghai or a political tirade against the Chinese system? Let me draw attention to one example: you criticize China''s response to COVID as heavy handed and draconian, but the effectiveness of China's policy has out performed the US, Europe and a majority of nations if we look at the outcomes - facts you do not present because it doesn't fit your narrative I suppose. Try to be more objective and use more facts.
Unsurprisingly this doesn’t get a heart from this neoliberal regurgitator
Great video, too bad butthurt people downvote anything that has to do with China due to their own insecurities and xenophobia
Wow looks more amazing than Dubai Abu Dhabi
TDC whats the intro song name
Hey za, I'll check next time I open PP on my editing computer and get back to ya!
What's the music at the beginning?
Do one on mumbai
A really excellent overview of the city of Shanghai. One tiny criticism; your American predisposition to critiquing the idea of China for its centralised power, as if US "Democracy" is the better alternative. Witness how the UK became effectively a "one-party" govt during WWII, when threatened by fascism; China since the Opium Wars has been in a war against rampant capitalism, the same capitalism that, in today's US & UK, is responsible for the two least representations of "Democracy" on earth, and US society is currently in meltdown.
"Judge not"...
those odds are off
Some nasty and unnecessary Western propaganda shoehorned in for good measure, I gave this a thumb down. 👎
Yes,you are right
Please explain
@@littlehippo5004 For instance that part about a Covid lockdown protest in Shanghai and his subjective opinion about the CCP in general has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Many Westerners simply can't help themselves.
Jeez America. That was one of those things you think in hindsight might’ve been better to not take part in.
In fact, we in other parts of China don’t like Shanghai very much, because Shanghai will do things that other parts of us hate. I can’t say this. You can check it out yourself.
Whats the soundtrack at the beginning?
Opening song is "After Sunset" by Twin Signals on Artlist.io
My students has lived her. David, Emily, Jack and Tina.
My perception change quite Alot when I saw the vlog of shanghai...... They shld be able to put in a gd fight against toykio and hk and sg to be the financial hub in asia especially when China possess the 2nd largest economy in the world combine with their population