An honorable mention (in my opinion) is the expressway network. A bit over 100,000 miles of expressway built in 35 years, an average of 8 miles each day.
Finally, something positive about China amid the incessant anti China rhetorics. And it must be said that any national level projects done by China...is by definition, a megaproject.
REQUEST: There usually isn't a problem with the background music but there were times during this video that I could hardly hear Simon because the background music was so loud. Is there anyway to turn that down? I mean...Simon's voice is usually easy to hear clearly but not this time. There's no sense in listing time stamps because it's throughout the video that this occurs.
1:05 - Chapter 1 - The 3 gorges dam 4:35 - Chapter 2 - Shenzen 7:50 - Chapter 3 - High speed rail 12:40 - Chapter 4 - Tiangong space station 15:05 - Chapter 5 - The south north water transfer
Three Gorges Dam ... $38 billion is not a lot of money for 22,500 MW of power production. I've worked on several power projects here in the US that cost over $1 billion, and produce less than 500 MW. Most nukes are under 800 MW, making them the most expensive to build.
That’s because America has the most expensive infrastructure build costs on the planet as legal authority and permitting isn’t centralized and anyone can sue the project to drive up costs like the ultra wealthy.
Chinese construction workers make the equivalent of $1.20 to $2.00 per hour depending on their job. Due to the raising cost of living in China, no one will work for less unless they are desperate.@@bryanmccarthy6493
ok, Simon is the exception to the rule but otherwise, DO NOT use RUclips as a source.. Just like wikipedia, there is no reliable peer review to back up any claims made.. in other words, i cant trust "Dr. Frank Einstein" to be an actual phd..
i mean ofc china has some good things. the problem is that it being a corrupt dictatorship the average life is kinda shitty compared to most other places and I say that as an argentinian that while country is poor, healthy food is cheaper that processed one, water and air are clean and we can insult public officials all day without any fear. and this is coming from someone whose country mostly hates the guts of the US. chine would be one of the last places i would move to outside of Africa ofc. not because ideology but because i not from Chinese born friends how bad health quality is over there, in air, water, food contamination.
All I hear is "Chinese economy collapsing", "China is bad at this", "China is bad at that", "Chinese people are terrible"... and I see all this and I'm like "how?"
@@cashewnuttel9054Really? Cause all I see is how "China will take over the world", "West US collapsing", "Dedollarization", "China best infrastructure" and all that.
These trains are freaking me out. From Hamburg to Munich is about 800km by car and you need AT LEAST six hours by train for the distance. Travelling 1300km in four hours by train is mind blowing. And i expect the trains are on time in China compared to Germany 😂
@@NightPhoenix.Y Ironic advice from some one how got triggered. And thats for regular trains. Not that a few peak days would not make it a waste of money
@@liestricks Who said making money is the objective? Idk about you but providing good transport has always seemed to be their main objective (as it should be) to me. but keep coping I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
He's probably too busy covering the gymnasium roof collapse that killed dozens of middle schoolers that the CCP is trying (unsuccessfully) to cover up...
This serpentza is an ignorant, sinophobic and Arrogant LIAR who has no proper job as well as barely speak chinese. Pathetic of you to believe in such a Failure 🤣👏👏👏👏
Love your vids man! I have noticed though that the background music is often just slightly too loud in comparison to your voice, which sucks because you have an amazing voice!!! 😍
Any project has three main elements - scope, time-scale, budget. You can at best only ever fix 2 of them. Most mega-projects have massive scope creep and usually miss their deadline, all of which means it's not possible to hit a budget.
38000km of high speed rail in China costs $300bn. 1 line in the UK stretching just 100km is taking 20 years to build and costing over $160bn. Wonder which government is stealing money from their citizens to line their own pockets?
China. You might want to look up how many Chinese politicians are imprisoned due to embezzling vast sums of money. Also, when you pay your workers poverty wages, don't give a shit about stealing the land, and have safety standards that are in most cases dubious (have a read on the many tofu dreg projects), it's very easy to build things cheaply. And the 100km in the UK is HS1, the rail tunnel link from London. HS2 adds somewhere around 300km more.
Given the recent bri*ish Prime Minister was outlasted by a vegetable, and the fact that almost all high ranking Chinese leaders have Phds in the sciences and arts instead of a political background, Id say the country that actively decides to jelly the eels of the river Themes.
@@NightPhoenix.Y not one of the senior members of the CCP has a doctorate in anything like that, they all have degrees in law, economics, and politics.
@@EvilGav No no I'm quite sure they have a few in agriculture and engineering. And many others in other fields. And Law and economics are part of the sciences buddy, what I was excluding was politics, just because they have a political career doesn't mean they spent years in poli school.
Great video as always Simon, kudos to you and your team! Now then, time to grab popcorn and enjoy comment section devolve into east vs. west madhouse :D
As water scarcity gets worse, i think we will multiple water pipelines getting constructed. As the climate changes, flood prone and drought prone areas are getting more extreme so it could be mutually beneficial in some places. I also think that as water runs out in certain areas the increase in value will justify the construction costs for water pipelines
I would wait to include the Beijing to Shanghai maglev in a video about successful mega projects because having it built and running by 2030 is pretty unlikely.
china's track record for astronomically absurd projects are next to a 100% success rate, unless some catastrophic delays, I think the railway will be built in that time
The efficiency of China's railway freight transportation is several orders of magnitude higher than that of the US... Delivering parcels anywhere within two days, spanning the distance from London to Moscow. This has dealt a crippling blow to China's malls and retail industry due to online shopping
Keep your favorite condiment handy Simon. I've heard some scientists say that the changes to the geography at & above the 3 gorges dam could cause some mega-earthquakes. You may need to eat your words...
You forget Chinese Expressway System or Chinese Motorway system, They only started on 1988 and by 2024 now to 114,000 Miles ot 185,000 km, They add and build 5,000-10,000 km new expressway every year since 2000
I'd love to see a video here or on Today I Found Out about L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seinne) and her death mask being used as the face of the CPR mannequins worldwide. A woman who went from drowning and being forgotten in death to being the face of saving countless lives, many from drowning.
Thanks simon for bringing this information other vloggers saying china is now facing an massive collapse it's unbelievable I don't think would be easy collapse for a nation giant in terms of economy
Immediately after the reservoir was first filled, around 80 hairline cracks were observed in the dam's structure. Still, an experts group gave the Three Gorges project overall a good-quality rating. The 163,000 concrete units all passed quality testing, with normal deformation within design limits.
No dam this large has been made before, so some cracking is probably an unfortunate but inescapable side-effect. The key is that any deformation remains within design limits, and that the cracks were noticed and recorded.
Ya gotta admit ... democracy is lovely and I cant imagine living without freedoms and choice, but ... when ya just have to get stuff done; dams built, city subway systems finished, high speed rail installed, and water systems dropped in ... ya really cant beat the communist system that just rolls in, points a finger and says "that way" ... and its just done. Western countries are forced to deal with massive environmental studies, cultural and people delays and a ton of way too much red tape. Not saying I dont enjoy my freedoms, but we have to be impressed in how they just get. stuff. done.
I have to admit you are right, they have enviromental study before dumping 25000 drumb of toxic DDT just off southern California coast near Catalina Island. must be very enviromental friendly search that... "Thousands of barrels of suspected toxic DDT found dumped in California ocean"
"The Chinese made it as painless as possible..." Unless they were Muslim's of course. In which case the Chinese made it as absolutely painful as possible.
Not sure how regular of an occurrence it is, but around major holidays like singles day, online retailers in China have posted about shipping goods by high speed train.
I did, even went to three gorges dam and took a cruise from there to Chongqing. Spent time in Beijing, Tianjin, Xi'an, and Hong Kong. Watched them bulldoze peoples homes to build the 2008 olympic stadium. Lovely place.
@@EvilGav Reminds me of Florida. Here they use eminent domain to seize and bulldoze the homes of low income black and hispanic residents so they can add "green space" around the roads to block the view and hide the rest of the low income neighborhoods. It makes it so much easier to sell trips to all the touristy spots to the rich folks when they can't see the poor folks. Lovely place.
It's nice to talk about all these projects being super eco friendly and people being re-housed in at least equivalent habitations with a cash compensation on top but, China being China, I'd be curious to see the disparity between what they've said to please the media and what actually happened...
The people were not rehoused equally it was a brutal move and they did not compensate everyone. Please do do actual research on the dam and don’t just assume that he’s done his research. His version is the version the Chinese government says and it keeps the comment section calm. The people who were relocated for the building of the three gorges dsm were not treated well and they currently use that dam to flood other parts of China currently so Beijing doesn’t flood.
I cannot believe this your saying that the Chinese government! The CCP moved people painlessly during some of these Megaprojects. Like what a load of bs you can do research and know that’s a lie. This a government that follows the teachings of Mao Zedong one of the worst humans in history. Maybe you didn’t want the video to be divisive but you did the free world and the Chinese people a disservice and helped The CCP.
So as A Chinese I can tell you that the gov is really doing things for its people and making good infrastructure for us. All the things here in the video are true and effective
Wolf amendment is coin up by western propaganda, you want to see the real Wolf amendment look at Usa /Nasa " Wolf amendment " is to ban china from joint you so dumb
All Chinese, & or every Chinese project’s a mega successful! #SafetyShouldntBeASecretServiceReservedExclusivelyForThePresidentCelebritiesRoyaltyAndOrTheChinese #AntColonies
"Will travel between Shanghai and Beijing in vacuum sealed tunnels", says Simon, who obviously doesn't know a thing about vacuum engineering. No such described vacuum tunnel is ever going to be built. It's utter nonsense.
They are already decades old. China does a lot of shoddy infrastructure but some of it gets it right. The more visible a project is the less corruption (not zero though, never zero). It's the small bridges, apartment buildings, etc. that get concrete that's as strong as cardboard paper, and other issues. The big issue for these in the future will be when they need maintenance, will proper reports and upkeep be done like any structure should get? Every structure ages. Or will managers try to kick the can down the road to look good during their time there.
@@MoriguTheDeadThe corruption part is true for any nation. No big construction project, anywhere, gets done without any corruption. It's unavoidable, since there's always somebody who's too greedy.
@@marktg98 That's true but China is a bit different in how corruption works than the west. After they 'sold' off the state industries in the move to a semi-capitalist economy they often ended in the hands of friends of the government. That's not that unusual, you see that in Venezuela's brief flirtation with capitalism when assets were looted and then mismanaged. But, China didn't just sell off some, they kept some as state industries and some of the ones they sold are only 'thinly' privately owned with heavy restrictions on how they operate. It's the semi-state and 'thinly' private companies that add a lot of chaos. What that creates is a massive entanglement of special interests of old rich families that bought those companies, new rich people who frequently cheated their way to wealth by shoddy construction, and the officials both groups have cultivated (old families by planting family in/buying, new rich by outright buying). A good non construction example was the 2008 Chinese milk scandal. It wasn't just one company faking their tests and contaminating milk. Over 20 other separate companies were doing it, and similar things, and more than just milk. In the west you'd expect it would be corruption with a government tester, or with a company, but in China it becomes a web of companies due to the above relationships.
The failure of the hyperloop is to be blamed on the major shithole that it is located in and the ignorant morons that vote there and run the place. You can figure that out.
Hyperloops are a waste of money, even when someone finally finds a way to bring them into reality, they aren't cost affective. What China has is already pretty good enough.
The idea of making a video like this seems really cool. But am I the only one that noticed the amount of “China is f!clung amazing!!!” in the video? “Everyone else keeps messing up mega projects, but China keeps on winning!”, “Countries around the world struggle with x, but not China!” Etc. Like, I get it, we should be fair and balance the things that they do well and the things they do badly. But this is so pro China that I was waiting for him to say “brought to you by the ccp”
I couldn't watch this crap, but scrolling through it, I couldn't help but notice a certain lack of terrible ads - pretty sure we all know why. Simon is guzzling that CCP dick.
Three gorges? Fantastic short term............................... Siltation rate - horrendous. The final nail in the coffin of the river dolp[hin? And other species?
so 1 building fall down you applied to whole country? wow does your brain even working? how about Surfside collapse killing 98ppl, do you applied that to the whole of usa? your ignorance is off the chart
China is a country has 1.4b people and a half of the highest buildings on this planet. if entire China has no building to fall down is much more scary to be honest. especially the wooden house in US has no chance to compare.
@@louiswu6300 my children didn't go to bed hungry tonight. Most of the Chinese population can not say the same. Tall buildings don't matter when they fall apart all the time... you can't hide... China is junk.
That's exactly it right there, jealousy. The ones who are currently running the world cannot accept that their powering is waning and soon they will have to give it up to someone else. There is always resistance. Oh, and Chinese women are so much more beautiful than Caucasians.
The three gorges dam should have never been built according to a few scientists. Its not really helping to prevent floods. A lot of people were not properly moved or compensated for moving. Shenzhen floods every year due to the city not planning drainage of the sewers properly. The trains are loosing money because they built to many of them. The constriction practices are all poor. They are called Tofu DREG construction. They are building structures to fast and with poor quality materials. The buildings, bridges, and tunnels are collapsing, falling apart, and sinking. Their construction work is all poor quality. They just had a roof of a school gym collapse and it killed 11 girls of a volley ball team. My prayers go out to the families who have lost their only children.
It is strange to see a video so positive about China from this channel….I can’t help but picture what’s going on offscreen. Simon, show more ankle if you need rescuing!
yes - but do you have a brain to do a bit of maths, 1-2 million ughurs how many prison you need to house them, how many police/guard/torturer/support crew ect to keep that place running? I am 100% you to dumb to figure that out
😆 🤣 😂 nice try, Wolf Warrior. China is one of the most polluting, and destructive countries when talking about energy. They literally only burn coal except for the odd windmill or solar panel which is built solely for propaganda purposes by wolf warriors like yourself
China produces 61% of it's energy from coal and is the largest coal power production in the world (by a long way, it's nearly 5 times that of India, who are the second highest). Germany and Poland are the only EU countries that feature on a list of the top 25 coal burning countries.
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What a delightful change of pace. More upbeat vids, please.
An honorable mention (in my opinion) is the expressway network. A bit over 100,000 miles of expressway built in 35 years, an average of 8 miles each day.
They are going for 200000 in 2025
Finally, something positive about China amid the incessant anti China rhetorics.
And it must be said that any national level projects done by China...is by definition, a megaproject.
REQUEST: There usually isn't a problem with the background music but there were times during this video that I could hardly hear Simon because the background music was so loud. Is there anyway to turn that down? I mean...Simon's voice is usually easy to hear clearly but not this time. There's no sense in listing time stamps because it's throughout the video that this occurs.
Totally agree. It’s a bit intense and distracting at points too. Normally don’t even notice the background music but I think it’s usually done well
Came here to say this
1:05 - Chapter 1 - The 3 gorges dam
4:35 - Chapter 2 - Shenzen
7:50 - Chapter 3 - High speed rail
12:40 - Chapter 4 - Tiangong space station
15:05 - Chapter 5 - The south north water transfer
Thank you for providing this service for those that are too ADHD to sit through a 15 minute video.
Love you bro❤
Three Gorges Dam ... $38 billion is not a lot of money for 22,500 MW of power production.
I've worked on several power projects here in the US that cost over $1 billion, and produce less than 500 MW.
Most nukes are under 800 MW, making them the most expensive to build.
That’s because America has the most expensive infrastructure build costs on the planet as legal authority and permitting isn’t centralized and anyone can sue the project to drive up costs like the ultra wealthy.
Three Gorges Dam already recover it construction cost from the power production profit many years ago.
And producing electricity is only the SECOND priority on the list. The number one priority is flood control.
But in the civilized world, you have to pay the workers more than $10.00 a week.
Chinese construction workers make the equivalent of $1.20 to $2.00 per hour depending on their job. Due to the raising cost of living in China, no one will work for less unless they are desperate.@@bryanmccarthy6493
Thanks Simon for the 3 gorges damm video on the main channel! Did a essay on it and passed !
ok, Simon is the exception to the rule but otherwise, DO NOT use RUclips as a source..
Just like wikipedia, there is no reliable peer review to back up any claims made..
in other words, i cant trust "Dr. Frank Einstein" to be an actual phd..
Congrats!!!
Great to see a positive view of china for a change. Very interesting and informative.
i mean ofc china has some good things. the problem is that it being a corrupt dictatorship the average life is kinda shitty compared to most other places and I say that as an argentinian that while country is poor, healthy food is cheaper that processed one, water and air are clean and we can insult public officials all day without any fear.
and this is coming from someone whose country mostly hates the guts of the US. chine would be one of the last places i would move to outside of Africa ofc. not because ideology but because i not from Chinese born friends how bad health quality is over there, in air, water, food contamination.
包括目前的抢劫案
too rare
positive views are too rare…
I for one welcome our Chinese overlords
Lol. Thanks, Kent 😂
You have no choice.
*getting massively distracted by Simons ankle* huh, I guess those Victorians were on to something.
Not actually Simon’s ankle. When on camera, Simon uses stunt ankles, just encase.
You never get this kind of reports on mainstream media.
All I hear is "Chinese economy collapsing", "China is bad at this", "China is bad at that", "Chinese people are terrible"... and I see all this and I'm like "how?"
@@cashewnuttel9054Really? Cause all I see is how "China will take over the world", "West US collapsing", "Dedollarization", "China best infrastructure" and all that.
These trains are freaking me out. From Hamburg to Munich is about 800km by car and you need AT LEAST six hours by train for the distance. Travelling 1300km in four hours by train is mind blowing. And i expect the trains are on time in China compared to Germany 😂
sure but no one is on them
@@liestricks Copium bro, cope. Like, have u seen their station at Chinese New Year?
@@NightPhoenix.Y like 700k in one day.
@@NightPhoenix.Y Ironic advice from some one how got triggered. And thats for regular trains. Not that a few peak days would not make it a waste of money
@@liestricks Who said making money is the objective? Idk about you but providing good transport has always seemed to be their main objective (as it should be) to me.
but keep coping I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Got to admit they have way more technology then we do in Canada its crazy
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He's probably too busy covering the gymnasium roof collapse that killed dozens of middle schoolers that the CCP is trying (unsuccessfully) to cover up...
This serpentza is an ignorant, sinophobic and Arrogant LIAR who has no proper job as well as barely speak chinese. Pathetic of you to believe in such a Failure 🤣👏👏👏👏
You mean the racist guy
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Love your vids man! I have noticed though that the background music is often just slightly too loud in comparison to your voice, which sucks because you have an amazing voice!!! 😍
Video idea! 5 mega projects that finished under budget 🤔
I don't think there are 5 that exist!
Yeah no such thing lol
Any project has three main elements - scope, time-scale, budget. You can at best only ever fix 2 of them. Most mega-projects have massive scope creep and usually miss their deadline, all of which means it's not possible to hit a budget.
Nd these 5 are probably the same one's on this list
judging by the comments, it looks S.P got all up in someone's feelings......ahhhhh.😥😥
I could've never imagined that this day would come but I'm very happy.
"A learned person only cares about facts". Thank you Mr. Whistler.
38000km of high speed rail in China costs $300bn. 1 line in the UK stretching just 100km is taking 20 years to build and costing over $160bn. Wonder which government is stealing money from their citizens to line their own pockets?
China. You might want to look up how many Chinese politicians are imprisoned due to embezzling vast sums of money. Also, when you pay your workers poverty wages, don't give a shit about stealing the land, and have safety standards that are in most cases dubious (have a read on the many tofu dreg projects), it's very easy to build things cheaply.
And the 100km in the UK is HS1, the rail tunnel link from London. HS2 adds somewhere around 300km more.
Given the recent bri*ish Prime Minister was outlasted by a vegetable, and the fact that almost all high ranking Chinese leaders have Phds in the sciences and arts instead of a political background, Id say the country that actively decides to jelly the eels of the river Themes.
@@NightPhoenix.Y not one of the senior members of the CCP has a doctorate in anything like that, they all have degrees in law, economics, and politics.
@@EvilGav No no I'm quite sure they have a few in agriculture and engineering. And many others in other fields.
And Law and economics are part of the sciences buddy, what I was excluding was politics, just because they have a political career doesn't mean they spent years in poli school.
@@NightPhoenix.Y Fake Phds dont count for much.
Great video as always Simon, kudos to you and your team!
Now then, time to grab popcorn and enjoy comment section devolve into east vs. west madhouse :D
As water scarcity gets worse, i think we will multiple water pipelines getting constructed. As the climate changes, flood prone and drought prone areas are getting more extreme so it could be mutually beneficial in some places. I also think that as water runs out in certain areas the increase in value will justify the construction costs for water pipelines
For a moment consider those workers who built these mega constructions.
I wonder how hard it was for Simon to say "positivity" ? 😂
So much copium in the comments
Megaprojects uploading on side projects. Makes sense
Maybe Simon's channels have become self-aware and are beginning to merge into one ginormous Gigachannel 🤖
It's been like this for while already, let our man cook.
I would wait to include the Beijing to Shanghai maglev in a video about successful mega projects because having it built and running by 2030 is pretty unlikely.
That really is a hyper loop without the pods
china's track record for astronomically absurd projects are next to a 100% success rate, unless some catastrophic delays, I think the railway will be built in that time
The tech that goes into hsr and maglev trains is really impressive, but those speeds scare me..
they are safer than the 50mph american trains.
"5 Successful Chinese Megaprojects"
I'm surprised you couldn't fit this into a 60 second short video.
One important thing to note is that you can’t crash a train into a skyscraper
The thing about rail is the US focus is on freight. I would like to see the value of moving goods instead of people.
The efficiency of China's railway freight transportation is several orders of magnitude higher than that of the US... Delivering parcels anywhere within two days, spanning the distance from London to Moscow. This has dealt a crippling blow to China's malls and retail industry due to online shopping
Keep your favorite condiment handy Simon. I've heard some scientists say that the changes to the geography at & above the 3 gorges dam could cause some mega-earthquakes. You may need to eat your words...
Cope.
breathe son
You forget Chinese Expressway System or Chinese Motorway system, They only started on 1988 and by 2024 now to 114,000 Miles ot 185,000 km, They add and build 5,000-10,000 km new expressway every year since 2000
Ah, my personal favorite business casual look. Throw a jacket over a tee-shirt and yoga pants 😅 jk. Looking good fact boy.
12:30 Vacuum sealed tunnels 🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼😂😂😂 Hyperloop🤣🤦🏼🤣🤦🏼🤣
I'd love to see a video here or on Today I Found Out about L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seinne) and her death mask being used as the face of the CPR mannequins worldwide. A woman who went from drowning and being forgotten in death to being the face of saving countless lives, many from drowning.
Gotta love those one-party states ! !Get things done !
Yes indeed! Things run pretty smoothly when no-one argues
Better than nothing happened and live in poverty forever
Simon, why is your video on Chinese influence on the Russian Ukraine war private 👀?
Thanks simon for bringing this information other vloggers saying china is now facing an massive collapse it's unbelievable I don't think would be easy collapse for a nation giant in terms of economy
Why isn't this on the mega projects channel? it literally has Megaprojects in the title...
Because it’s China and RAND wouldn’t be happy.
Sacrifices had to be made in order to accommodate and satisfy everyone's needs.
A British man talking about China calculating with U.S. currency.
The Great Leap Forward has entered the chat….
Immediately after the reservoir was first filled, around 80 hairline cracks were observed in the dam's structure. Still, an experts group gave the Three Gorges project overall a good-quality rating. The 163,000 concrete units all passed quality testing, with normal deformation within design limits.
All dams crack
Hor$eShit! China MUST FALL!!! PERIOD!
What expert group is that
No dam this large has been made before, so some cracking is probably an unfortunate but inescapable side-effect. The key is that any deformation remains within design limits, and that the cracks were noticed and recorded.
It’s a gravity dam not an arc dam, which means it’s the weight of the dam not the structural tension of the dam that’s holding it in place.
5 megaprojects but not posted on megaprojects?
Ya gotta admit ... democracy is lovely and I cant imagine living without freedoms and choice, but ... when ya just have to get stuff done; dams built, city subway systems finished, high speed rail installed, and water systems dropped in ... ya really cant beat the communist system that just rolls in, points a finger and says "that way" ... and its just done.
Western countries are forced to deal with massive environmental studies, cultural and people delays and a ton of way too much red tape.
Not saying I dont enjoy my freedoms, but we have to be impressed in how they just get. stuff. done.
I have to admit you are right, they have enviromental study before
dumping 25000 drumb of toxic DDT just off southern California coast near Catalina Island. must be very enviromental friendly
search that...
"Thousands of barrels of suspected toxic DDT found dumped in California ocean"
13:14 - I would reference the movie "Gravity"...
Anyone ever heard of the river dolphin that was driven to extinction by the building of the Three Gorge Dam! Cite:Last Chance to See-D. Adams
0:55-0:57
There is a first time for everything, I suppose.
You got the best pictures of Shenzhen 😂
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"The Chinese made it as painless as possible..." Unless they were Muslim's of course. In which case the Chinese made it as absolutely painful as possible.
You want to talk about how middle eastern countries treat southeast Asian workers?
@@falcorn1165 ummm...no?
@@searchengine27 I mean you want to demonize a whole country why not a region?
Muslims fighting other muslims in the Middle East be crying rn, truely a comment of all time.
Source: am one, can confirm we are eating rocks rn.
Maglev hyperloop 😮 that sucks
I will be watching the live feeds from china's space station with popcorn and beer. It'll be like Oxygen Not Included, but IRL. XD
Do they really ship goods, and not only people, by high speed rail?
Not sure how regular of an occurrence it is, but around major holidays like singles day, online retailers in China have posted about shipping goods by high speed train.
cargo and passenger train are not the same, use ur head
@@jetli740 Meant the rail obviously
Wonder how many of these commenters have bothered visiting China?
Man most of these people haven’t even seen an ocean or boarded a plane in person but spew anti china rhetoric like they are big brother. 😂
Why visit a place when there's so many stale old stereotypes they can parrot instead.... 😐
I did, even went to three gorges dam and took a cruise from there to Chongqing. Spent time in Beijing, Tianjin, Xi'an, and Hong Kong. Watched them bulldoze peoples homes to build the 2008 olympic stadium. Lovely place.
@@EvilGav Reminds me of Florida. Here they use eminent domain to seize and bulldoze the homes of low income black and hispanic residents so they can add "green space" around the roads to block the view and hide the rest of the low income neighborhoods. It makes it so much easier to sell trips to all the touristy spots to the rich folks when they can't see the poor folks. Lovely place.
It's nice to talk about all these projects being super eco friendly and people being re-housed in at least equivalent habitations with a cash compensation on top but, China being China, I'd be curious to see the disparity between what they've said to please the media and what actually happened...
The people were not rehoused equally it was a brutal move and they did not compensate everyone. Please do do actual research on the dam and don’t just assume that he’s done his research. His version is the version the Chinese government says and it keeps the comment section calm. The people who were relocated for the building of the three gorges dsm were not treated well and they currently use that dam to flood other parts of China currently so Beijing doesn’t flood.
I cannot believe this your saying that the Chinese government! The CCP moved people painlessly during some of these Megaprojects. Like what a load of bs you can do research and know that’s a lie. This a government that follows the teachings of Mao Zedong one of the worst humans in history. Maybe you didn’t want the video to be divisive but you did the free world and the Chinese people a disservice and helped The CCP.
Well yeah that's basically what I assumed and why I made this comment x) @@DauthEldrvaria
So as A Chinese I can tell you that the gov is really doing things for its people and making good infrastructure for us.
All the things here in the video are true and effective
@@DauthEldrvaria? seriously?
the three gorge dam is even not in Hebei! it’s in he middle of China dude!
Why are western space agencies not allowed to cooperate with China? What happened, exactly...
I guess dead bodies help concrete construction
I started video at
"no bottom paaarp" 😂
Oh and the Wolf amendment needs to be done away with.
Wolf amendment is coin up by western propaganda, you want to see the real Wolf amendment look at Usa /Nasa " Wolf amendment " is to ban china from joint
you so dumb
Yeah.... the Three Gorges Dam is a high-priority target of the Taiwanese military.
After that, Taiwan would be a nuclear wasteland.
China, positively, for once.
why does this sound like a promo video from the US? Maybe because it sounds also lika a promo for china?
Don’t read so much into it lol. He’s just making content and it was interesting. Didn’t know they had a working mag lift. That’s crazy.
He chooses what he reads.
American politicians bitch about infrastructure snd how China is a threat, but they don't fix the problems.
Seeing this video is scary
5 of 5,000, not bad China 😂😅😂😅😂😅😂
Considering by 2030 China will overtake US as largest economy. Yeah, definitely not bad. It's ok to settle for 2nd place soon Yankee
All Chinese, & or every Chinese project’s a mega successful!
#SafetyShouldntBeASecretServiceReservedExclusivelyForThePresidentCelebritiesRoyaltyAndOrTheChinese
#AntColonies
Love the enthusiasm!
"Will travel between Shanghai and Beijing in vacuum sealed tunnels", says Simon, who obviously doesn't know a thing about vacuum engineering. No such described vacuum tunnel is ever going to be built. It's utter nonsense.
😂. You're jealous
@@guens01 No, I'm a vacuum engineer.
Megaprojects on sideprojects? I'm confused.
You meant: 1. Irak 2. Vietnam 3. Syria 4. Libya 5. Afghanistan ?
This video may very well not age well ;)
They are already decades old. China does a lot of shoddy infrastructure but some of it gets it right. The more visible a project is the less corruption (not zero though, never zero). It's the small bridges, apartment buildings, etc. that get concrete that's as strong as cardboard paper, and other issues.
The big issue for these in the future will be when they need maintenance, will proper reports and upkeep be done like any structure should get? Every structure ages. Or will managers try to kick the can down the road to look good during their time there.
@@MoriguTheDeadThe corruption part is true for any nation. No big construction project, anywhere, gets done without any corruption. It's unavoidable, since there's always somebody who's too greedy.
Agreed
The 3g dam is already falling apart
@@marktg98 That's true but China is a bit different in how corruption works than the west. After they 'sold' off the state industries in the move to a semi-capitalist economy they often ended in the hands of friends of the government. That's not that unusual, you see that in Venezuela's brief flirtation with capitalism when assets were looted and then mismanaged. But, China didn't just sell off some, they kept some as state industries and some of the ones they sold are only 'thinly' privately owned with heavy restrictions on how they operate.
It's the semi-state and 'thinly' private companies that add a lot of chaos. What that creates is a massive entanglement of special interests of old rich families that bought those companies, new rich people who frequently cheated their way to wealth by shoddy construction, and the officials both groups have cultivated (old families by planting family in/buying, new rich by outright buying).
A good non construction example was the 2008 Chinese milk scandal. It wasn't just one company faking their tests and contaminating milk. Over 20 other separate companies were doing it, and similar things, and more than just milk. In the west you'd expect it would be corruption with a government tester, or with a company, but in China it becomes a web of companies due to the above relationships.
colorful socks, please 🙂
Did they find out Hu Flung Poo?
And here I thought Simon just hated us Chinese people.
Please stop using imperial measurements.
The three gorges dam is never compared to the pyramids when conspiracy theorists talk about modern capability, I wonder why? lol
More positive energy for chine please
I bet Musk is jelly that China figured out a Hyperloop that actually works 😂
I'm really struggling to understand why that was even mentioned in this video.
No they haven't. It is just as stupid as Musk project.
The failure of the hyperloop is to be blamed on the major shithole that it is located in and the ignorant morons that vote there and run the place. You can figure that out.
Hyperloops are a waste of money, even when someone finally finds a way to bring them into reality, they aren't cost affective.
What China has is already pretty good enough.
The idea of making a video like this seems really cool. But am I the only one that noticed the amount of “China is f!clung amazing!!!” in the video? “Everyone else keeps messing up mega projects, but China keeps on winning!”, “Countries around the world struggle with x, but not China!” Etc. Like, I get it, we should be fair and balance the things that they do well and the things they do badly. But this is so pro China that I was waiting for him to say “brought to you by the ccp”
I couldn't watch this crap, but scrolling through it, I couldn't help but notice a certain lack of terrible ads - pretty sure we all know why. Simon is guzzling that CCP dick.
Yeah, that vid was absolutely fawning, and the lack of any sponsor or affiliate link is sus.
@@squid1661it's probably pretty hard to get anyone who willing to sponsor a video about China these days, aside from ccp
If there's one thing china does really well, its megaprpjects. So ofc the video is positive
If you seen other videos Simon is prone to say "X is amazing" when things go right
Three gorges?
Fantastic short term...............................
Siltation rate - horrendous.
The final nail in the coffin of the river dolp[hin? And other species?
You must talk negative of china
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That dam could power my entire country.
Eco friendly and biodiversity are wonderful ‘ green’ words, yet the huge ships taking Australian coal and gas back to China tell a different story
What story does it tell? Australia is getting rich.
Factboy's social credit score just went up
A project which costs China $37 billion is still only about $26 per person
The same amount the UK spent during the pandemic on a test and trace system that didn't even work.
check out all the buildings falling down in China in just the past couple of weeks. including a gym that killed a teenage volleyball team
Something you don't hear a whole lot of about the gymnasium collapse a few days ago... the building was built in 1997. Not even 30 years old
so 1 building fall down you applied to whole country? wow does your brain even working?
how about Surfside collapse killing 98ppl, do you applied that to the whole of usa? your ignorance is off the chart
China is a country has 1.4b people and a half of the highest buildings on this planet. if entire China has no building to fall down is much more scary to be honest. especially the wooden house in US has no chance to compare.
@@louiswu6300 my children didn't go to bed hungry tonight. Most of the Chinese population can not say the same. Tall buildings don't matter when they fall apart all the time... you can't hide... China is junk.
China is incredible and shows so much good progress.. it makes other countries angry with jealousy.
Go home, Mao.
@@Kainlarsen found the jelly. Keep coping.
That's exactly it right there, jealousy.
The ones who are currently running the world cannot accept that their powering is waning and soon they will have to give it up to someone else. There is always resistance.
Oh, and Chinese women are so much more beautiful than Caucasians.
@@Kainlarsen Mao has been gone a long time now. There have been no "tens of millions of deaths" since he passed away.
Hey Simon… If you love China so much, why don’t you marry it?
😂 i just can laugh on this
THEN LAUGH, HAHAHAHAHAHAH! HASO BHAI HASO!!
The three gorges dam should have never been built according to a few scientists. Its not really helping to prevent floods. A lot of people were not properly moved or compensated for moving. Shenzhen floods every year due to the city not planning drainage of the sewers properly. The trains are loosing money because they built to many of them. The constriction practices are all poor. They are called Tofu DREG construction. They are building structures to fast and with poor quality materials. The buildings, bridges, and tunnels are collapsing, falling apart, and sinking. Their construction work is all poor quality. They just had a roof of a school gym collapse and it killed 11 girls of a volley ball team. My prayers go out to the families who have lost their only children.
source, by scientist that never been to china, so credible
Well... Shit. I better start learning Chinese then.
400 sq miles? You sure?
So Simon whistles to the tune of the chinese communist party.
Down Vote.
It is strange to see a video so positive about China from this channel….I can’t help but picture what’s going on offscreen. Simon, show more ankle if you need rescuing!
Lmao he just talks the truth
Ever heard the quote 'all fur coat, no knickers' Simon??
Chinas coat is a faux fur coat 😆 🤣 😂
🧐 The infrastructure project "The bee honeycomb model of the conglomerates" Will Solve the Problem 🐝. There is no other way. Archimedes XXI century 😇.
Great video. Just a shame they completely skipped China's largest Mega Project, the Genocide of the Uyghurs.
yes - but do you have a brain to do a bit of maths, 1-2 million ughurs how many prison you need to house them, how many police/guard/torturer/support crew ect to keep that place running?
I am 100% you to dumb to figure that out
This video isnt going to age well its just been released n its already not aging well 😂😂😭
I would have included the enormous project of clima saving / climafriendly energy, it seems they do more then the us and eu together
China has more emissions than the US and EU combined
China certainly is building more coal plants than the US and EU together
And yet they still pollute more than the rest of the developed world combined.
😆 🤣 😂 nice try, Wolf Warrior. China is one of the most polluting, and destructive countries when talking about energy. They literally only burn coal except for the odd windmill or solar panel which is built solely for propaganda purposes by wolf warriors like yourself
China produces 61% of it's energy from coal and is the largest coal power production in the world (by a long way, it's nearly 5 times that of India, who are the second highest). Germany and Poland are the only EU countries that feature on a list of the top 25 coal burning countries.