Please post on rumble as well

Would love for you guys to Get back to posting cool videos like you used to do. Why y’all always hating on China?

I spoke to a friend of mine in China about her possible new job. She said she had to work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week at the factory for 1785 RMB a month + overtime. That's 7 RMB per hour. This is modern slavery. So sad.

@@new-york-city How do you get to know people like that? Honest Question

You guys should do video conquering North America I think you will be pleasantly surprised on how much culture that it is in the US that doesn’t get shown to mainstream media.

Gotta love the people who never went to X country go to great lengths to defend it.

The economy of China is spurious at best. There's plenty of reasons for the mass exodus/divestment of companies, corporations, and manufacturers from China; and its not just due to the human rights concerns. Primarily because doing business in China is a faustian bargain to begin with: considering that you can't sue an entity that is 51% owned by the state, and the guarenteed Intellectual Property Theft and Brand Subversion. The WTO has been discussing the devaluation of the Yuan-RMB within the following year; due to the charges of Currency Manipulation, levied by both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Also, there's a serious likelihood of phased sanctions; as a handful of countries are drafting their own versions of America's "Global Magnitsky Act", specifically to address the CCP's criminal activities domestically and abroad.

Maybe some Chinese-borned who has gotten American citizenship. There are many of them and a good proportion of them are blind fans of China.

@Moy The CCP invests a lot of money and effort to keep "Huaren" confused; conflating ethnicity with Nationality, even though they are separate concepts in the west.

@@China_Secret_Police "...in the west" it does not have apply to other parts ot the world

Sadly, nothing will change as long as the EVIL CCP remains in control!!

Improving the lot of a nation takes generations. My family were poor farm workers four generations ago. Too many were lost in wars (fighting Germans for the ungrateful French) but that is another story. Yet each and every year as a family we became very slightly, ever so little, a little bit wealthier. Now we don’t have to worry too much about the future. The same should happen in China. There is no quick fix but hopefully education, healthcare and affordable food becomes is a reality for everyone before long.

China will collapse into stone age very soon. Can't wait for it😎

More power to you! You are the start change

slightly more accurate translation: With no comparison, there comes no pain

But 1.3 billions population act together is rich country

@@Don-zd6ni : The Chinese nation might be rich, but most of the individual citizens are desperately poor. The Chinese nation is not the only entity that matters; the lives of the individual citizens also matter.

@@deusexaethera bro gv them sometimes they will catch up

@@gooeystuff6726 that y gv them sometimes they can catch up

It's really not that different from other countries. Hiding the stuff that makes them look bad. Whether it's the US, Germany, France etc... They all constantly tell everyone "we are rich countries"! But the poverty is usually ignored.

Who would of thought, brutal communist dictatorships are not good for people, just the elites.

@@TheBelrick communism has got to be the most ironic ideology ever.

@@captainalex157 It is, an ideology that enslaves people by encouraging them to enslave themselves.

@i'm the king and Chinese government doesn't use this gdp for betterment of such poor and people living in such conditions but uses the money to capture more countries and expand their territory, atleast worry about your own people feed them first before capturing more areas and hence more people. making them slave torturing them is what they do if someone resists. As they did in Tibet then now in Xinjiang. hell they don't even really care about people living in their villages.

I come from a place very similar to the one shown in the video, and I would like to point out that the Chinese government's elimination of absolute poverty refers to guaranteeing the most basic "food, clothing, shelter and transportation (food, clothing and housing are guaranteed)" for everyone; in 2019, the government premier Li Keqiang pointed out in his government work report to the nation that 600 million people in China have a per capita income is less than 2,000 yuan (equivalent to $310). So that's why the Chinese government keeps calling itself a developing country. I don't know the reason why you were kicked out, but I think the most likely reason is political issues.

What are tankies?

@@leonardticsay8046 Communists/Marxist-CCP fans.

Please tell me tankies is an allusion to tiananmen.

@@christopherandrew6545 yes

Basic math; if you have the same GDP as the other guy, and four times as many people, your people are only doing 25% as well as the other guy.

Yeah, pride comes before a fall.

“Saving face” was invented by the Chinese. It’s their way of not accepting any responsibility for their actions. Heaven forbid should someone be chastised for doing wrong!

China will never gain respect until face culture is eradicated. It's just that simple. Instead they take no responsibility and have the nerve to demand apologies from others. What a joke.

It's the same in a few other South East Asian countries like Thailand.

Was it also this bad when KMT ruled China?

Chinese people basically have Industrial Revolution-era mindset.

Where can I read these novels? What’s an unlimited flow novel?

Are these available in English? Where could I find these novels? I'm interested to branch out in my reading :)

I have noticed from the manhuas I read a decided pattern in plot themes. A social nobody, commonly labeled "trash" who by some means rises above his impoverished circumstances, to repay any and all personal grudges and social sneers- and of course gets the women. The thing is while there is a sense that the system has been unfair to HIM, there is seldom any greater sense from the MC that the system itself needs to change. Just that he is now happy to have the means and power to avenge himself and protect the few people he cares about. And while in the beginning the MC's payback is often justified against former bullies, I have often found myself troubled by the fact that after the initial arc, the moment one looks at the MC's actions from any perspective other than the biased pro-MC POV, there isn't really all that much to differentiate his actions from the bullies- he is beating up people because he can and thinks he is right to because they made him angry for some reason (often rather petty ones as the author ran out of new ideas). The problem with these stories is that they are such obvious rinse and repeats of the same basic idea, not just throughout the manhua, but in the various manhuas that it all blurs. They are there to fulfill the fantasy of a nobody becoming somebody and getting back at anyone who ever even remotely looked down on them. There is little plot besides that, or rather the plot is just a vehicle for that. These stories don't critique the system (of course), not even when it's in a alternate historical fantasy setting, but rather promise the MC wealth and social success within it. While I didn't want to ascribe too much to a single genre, the lack of variance of the same basic theme in so many manhuas does attest for there being enough of target market for it- and the need for it. Just like the female romantic equivalent rags to riches payback manhuas. Modern fictional opium for the masses who can only fantasize about it?

Hm

😮😮😮

Maybe there should be some sort of citizen exchange program. Lol It does take all types to make a world, and satisfaction, along with gratitude, are not easy to find.

It's a "Grass is always greener at the other side" mentality. If you've been through both, you'll be able to seek out a weighted decision with pros and cons.

@@dodieodie498 Well, my posting in this forum is more then a bit glib, I do realize this fact since the Chinese guy I described have little to no choice when it comes to his living arrangements and his annual income. It's just that I watch several off grid channels here on KZfaq, and the way many Chinese people are forced to live in the countryside (in small, simple houses without any municipal services, raising goats and chickens and growing much of their own food) is the dream life for many westerners. The BIG difference is they would do so out of choice, and with better equipment and opportunities (such as having a "living off grid" channel on KZfaq...). And that they can always choose to opt out and go back to their old life if they decide they think it's too hard and that they don't like living that way any more. It was just the juxtaposition between this particular video (excellent work by the guys as always) to the videos made by off grid enthusiasts, that are uploaded to the same platform that struck me as kind of funny, but in reality it's not funny at all of course...

@@akersjon278 Yes. I understand. I have watched those videos as well. There is a big difference between living as a minimalist by choice and basically being forced to do it because it's the only option. Or at least the only one you know. I was thinking about a video I saw on "coffin" renters in Hong Kong, and how that life would compare to rural China. Then you can compare these folks to people in Burundi or people living in the back back backwoods of the U.S. People living a certain way because it's the way their families have always lived or out of choice or because it's all they know. And who is to say which are the most content and why when you don't live as they do. I keep thinking that there is probably a very good "middle". That's what I'm looking for.

My Brazilian friend here in UK was saying similar. When we walked past stables and how horses are for the poor and farmers there and the wealthy here. The contrasting ideals are intriguing. The grass is greener and all, on this particular thing. Suggests more about abject lack of balance, in any society, still. Along with the impacts that has on individuals. Seemingly, being a wealthy farmer, globally, appears the happiest way to live.

Pei macblane, since you and your sister are from Yunnan and Guangzhou, do you know if guys belong to the Miao tribe? I'm just curious.

@@shinbi6009 Yes, most countries have a fair amount of poorer people. Even in Western Europe where we're probably leading in social aids policy and government help for lower classes. But the difference is that no government except the CCP claims that they solved that issue.

No I do not know much about my birth place

Shin Bi you must resonate with a lot of what Winston and C milk are saying

I don’t really know much of my birth place, I live right now with what many people would call “westerners”. One is Irish the other is Italian, that’s why my last name is MacBlane.

tons of unfilled innovation jobs in china. the poor are weak seeds. tons of poor people in usa. for minorities to do well in usa, they need to attack their own kind. china's weak people came from the great wall of china. after it is built, human nature show ---> everyone feels safe from northern "barbarians" ---> most people in china want easy life ---> the survival of the weak, adopting buddhism and socialism ---> practice groupism, taking advantage of those who work hard, grabbing the fruit of their hard work ---> they know their action (called theft) is wrong ---> they promote atheism ---> NO God ---> NO accountability ---> so they wish. the great wall of china did a lot of damage to china. it brings out the human nature's laziness. now the west refuse to help china ---> massive unemployment in china ---> people in china need to take birth controls.

Lies again? Vigrx Plus

Some days it was hard to tell which quadrant of the sky the sun was in.

So the century of humiliation was both better and had nothing to do with current problems? There is no economic growth in China? It didn't go from the richest nation on earth before the invasions to one of the poorest? It didn't then go back to being the richest today? Enough lies, just admit that you hate the Chinese for becoming independent and prosperous.

@@yaelz6043 it’s interesting how the ethnic Chinese in Taiwan have prospered, while most Chinese in China have not….

@@stevemcgowen first of all they have and no thanks to the West that robbed them for over a century. Second you know full well that Taiwan stole all of China's gold. Literally trillions stolen. It was then given high end technology to become a high income economy. It's all just theft and politics, at the end of the day you just steal and give hand outs to your favourite pets.

@@yaelz6043 yall just mad that Taiwan #1 qq

Me too. In working-class cities the people were lovely. Kind and open and inquisitive. Often on the street, I would be asked if I was Christian? I am but I came across many who were inquisitive about religion. I always felt safe. No way I can go back now.

@Naikomi Thanks for the information Naikomi, If a regime is afraid of religious freedom, shows insecurity. Hopefully one day all the people of the PRC are free of oppression and able to make up their own minds about most things, More importantly, they have access to the whole internet. Open their minds to the whole world. We need to all get along. Very little children are a joy to watch. They all get along.

Chinese people can be lovely - pity about their corrupt authoritarian government

Villagers and town people one of nice, simplistic people anywhere in the world City people always be like narcissistic

Amazing story. That’s so cool they got the dancers back together to do dance again.

These guys are racist, they hate china and will only show the bad sides of china bro

We send tourists in wrong directions in Devon England too. Sorry

Exactly, China could have their countryside developed without the need of building urban cities if they care about the poor citizens. I guess a good example would be countries like Switzerland or Finland where the rural areas are very developed and the farmers have a very high income compared to other countries.

@@martiddy you also need to consider when and in which condition they started from

Think and do the research before you conclude, guys. I grew up in a village in China and I am familiar with the surroundings in the video. These are easy to be found on Chinese TIKTOK, I don't understand the so-called swipe up. Chinese people are free to upload any footage of their villages and share it with everyone public. Also, when these two dudes point at the shack in the video, talking about living conditions bad as such, the fact is, that thing is a shack for stocks!!!!! Also, we, never claimed our country as a developed country, either officially or from the viewpoint of individuals, we know that we are a developing country, what the hell are you talking about?!

You are still looking at China with the ideological system of the West, and even in the comments you say how poor this village is. Have you seen how much we spent on rural construction? Why don't you come over to help us improve? Five years ago I visited one of the poorest villages in China and could only eat one sweet potato per meal. Now the government guarantees that residents have meat and vegetables in their meals. Twenty years ago, many Chinese villagers could not say that they were fully fed. now what? You have no experience of poverty and hunger, so give us whatever you want. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese government has spent more than billions of dollars on the network, water supply, electricity, education, agriculture, and rural construction. These are things that you will not evaluate.

@Peter D What are you talking about?难道你不知道中国的计划生育政策与生活过本过高已经开始让中国人口负增长了吗？

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What happened to C-Milk?

@@LV-426... had spinal surgery...he was recovering well, he just wasn't allowed to sit for the podcast.

Well it's all those things. Not communism vs capitalism but communism vs democracy definitely. Where the leaders a working for your vote if the citizens find no life improvement you ain't getting voted for. Now this is when democracy works, obviously there are corrupt democracies where this doesn't work. But I think we've all read animal farm. Communism is an excuse to rule with corruption and lies, forcing poverty and famine (and everything else bad that comes with it) all in the name of nationalism.

in my experience there are only two types of Communism authoritarian and anarchist anarchists are well most don't even know what there talking about mostly there just anti government and can't be bothered to give an thought out alternative the authoritarian ones tell you there for the people but your not allowed to disagree with them

@@robspunk democracy is gay. It leads to the majority just voting themselves the minorities money and property which tends to end up in a Marxist government. Only net tax payers should vote

well said

What freedom of self determination? Why is the US is banning abortion rights?

That is the absolute truth

We won't clean this sh*t. We don't care to defeat this sh*t. We only care to protect ourselves, our border. It's your nation, your motherland. Try to protect it, build it once in a while. If you can't, then you're deserve to be poor.

Communism 101.

True

These guys are talking about the economy, not the military. Nobody wants to go to war with China. However, unprovoked attacks on countries that didn’t attack you cannot be tolerated. Putin the maniac is going to be tough to deal with because he really doesn’t give a shit about his people. Why else would he threaten to use Nuclear Weapons. He has to realize it would result in the destruction of Russia when the nukes are flying. He only cares about things that threaten his power. He is a modern day Hitler as far as I am concerned.

many of the people were removed from their positions of university professors, teachers etc were forcefully moved to the poorer rural areas when the purges happened under Mao

@@TerrenceBosworth No, really? Honest? No kidding? Your comment has nothing to do with what I said; it is partially correct or at least only partially what happened, since many of them were just murdered and not sent where they could still exist as a threat; and those type of events are extremely elementary and well-known bits of information.

@@GradyGillis i was referring to people I know. My experience is limited. I know about the purges and brutality, starvation causing 50 to 80 million.

*_Matthew 11.28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."_* _Jesus Christ loves you. Repent and be saved. Only Jesus Christ saves. God bless you, and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family._ -

not one person works, but one person needs to work

Pensions are unsustainable. Western pensions are only good for Doctors and P0liticians.

@@zerohero5753 meanwhile the ccp gives nothing to its own people and encourages them to starve

@ We have always needed to work. In times past we hunted, farmed, fished, worked metal, built homes, made clothes etc. It is no different today.

@@zerohero5753 Wrong. Those with properly funded occupational schemes have pensions as do those who make their own private arrangements.They are totally sustainable but they require savings to be made for your entire working life.

Agreed. And keep up the good work guys. 😎

They don't have guns.

391 million Chinese have signed up for tuidang(exit the party) movement that began 17 years ago despite internet censorship. I think it's coming soon. It's just not possible for one political party to hold power for over 80 years and CCP has been in power for 73 years as of 2022. If they manage to get rid of the CCP, there's nothing they wouldn't be able to achieve. We might actually have to worry about that lol

@@saint_matthias great moniker!

EZ, they don't need our support.

The Chinese are very satisfied with the government. If an ordinary Chinese chooses to live in the United States or in China, more than 90% of ordinary people choose to live in China. . However, rich people are willing to live in America. Because even if you kill people in America, money can solve any problem, even be the president of the United States, but not in China. . All people in China are equal.

Joseph Smith No way out cuz poor people are all trap in the rural areas no roads no transportation for them to get out.

I made a comment on a video (beautiful area) Guiyang. City surrounded by Forests and a waterfall. I said it was breathtaking but I couldn't go as I don't want to support the regime , CCP. Well the abuse I got back was unreal. They all insist that the CCP has ended poverty, and defended the one child policy. Over 100 replies to me. One said... She would drown if enough Chinese spat on her ! Lovely eh ? ...

To say the least!

*What you have to understand at any time the phones can be taken off them for one reason or another and their messages checked I imagine they said what they needed to*

Then you can go to China. to see

@@AllAboutKZfaqrs13 they're stateside now and still somehow Pro CCP, but I feel it.

@@sosoable yeah let us go over there and film more of your poverty. What's that? Yall too scared to let us come into your country? Well then now you sound a bit silly

@@xinnieliestoyou4643 In 2019, China's inbound tourists were 145 million. The number of Chinese Inbound Tourists ranks fourth in the world. You can see with your own eyes whether China is poor or rich. Do you have no money to travel to China. Why is your knowledge so poor

They do that in Mexico, too. They'll give you wrong directions if they don't know.

I remember that video clip.

They will never get there. A healthy, vibrant and strong population is the last thing that a Communist Govt' can tolerate. They tend to want more than the Communist system can ever provide.

That's how successful their propaganda campaigns have been, that even politicians "believe the hype" so to speak. Yet all one has to do is just check the conversion rates, or why China is kept afloat by western subsidies.

Doesn't matter! China has the power, She can plunder other countries resources to feed China's poor. Belt and road initiative ,digital Yuan all the way coming up.

@@victorye7150 Which is exactly why CCP's unnecessarily bellicose and unfortunately belligerent behavior will result in binding UN Resolutions. This is exactly how the DPRK got themselves isolated. ....they refused to play nice with others.

@@David_Lo_Pan UN means nothing. China is the new world order.

Video explains so much.

@@shinbi6009 You know what a lot of tree-huggers and "save the earth" types don't realize? If you really want to live green, THIS is how you do it. You build your own home. You grow and/or k**l your own food. You don't buy crap you don't need. There's no need to worry about throwing out recyclable or non-recyclable trash, because 100% of what you throw out, is recyclable or biodegradable. Problem is, nobody wants to go to this type of living. But this living, is true "save the earth" "save climate change" living.

@J B spot on 👍 How could anyone think it's okay to live on $500 USD a year!!! That's criminal to me! I can't understand that mentality, unless they feel guilty themselves 🤷 if myy grandparents had to live on that, I'd get a 2nd job just to fund them. I couldn't stand by and say, I'd rather be poor in China than America- when I'm not even American 🤦 they just assumed! It's foul. I've seen older Chinese washing their Vegetables in sewerage water and they're saying that's all they need! Why because they're also eating rat's? I'm serious, I have seen a man with a stiff rat and he was going to eat it for dinner! No way should anyone in 2022 be living in 500 USD!😡

Pretty much looks like what I expected.

@@shinbi6009 If you allow your grandparents to live like that in China without helping them, then you are no better than Barak Obama, whose African relatives live in poverty and he does nothing to help them, while he owns multiple mega-million dollar mansions.

Man really sad hope those good souls Live well in china

@@davidbilla8063 My experience is most of the Chinese people aren't bad people; they're just trapped in a bad system.

@@blessedwithchallenges9917 many people Stay Quiet Do their work without any controversy and goes back to China because their parents will become Hostage to CCP if they go against china i seen many news about Chinese students who protested in Australia Threatened by CCP by using family card

@@davidbilla8063 I had a student who became a Christian while living with my family. When he returned to China we didn't hear from him for 3 years. Then we got an email from him apologizing. He said he was arrested when he got off the plane and interrogated for 3 days. He said his punishment was very light - they took his internet access away for 3 years. He also said, "God bless you and your family", at the end of the email. I was scared for him since I knew it was possible the CCP was reading his emails. It's now been about 12 years and we've never heard from him again besides that one email.

@@blessedwithchallenges9917 Damn!

The world will never improve. That's all you need to say.

Wonder if in 2-22-2222 someone else will celebrate a date of repetitive numbers in a comment section?😏

There are several entries/exits in expressway between two cities. Normally at interval of 30km-50km. Expressway is too expensive so you can not use them to connect villages. Instead, all villages are connected by cement roads (also electricity, water , cable TV). This project is called 'village-village-connnected' and started about 20 years ago. The project is huge since the village number in china is 1 million. This video proved the goal is almost achieved.

Wow.. Small world.. That was the time of the SARS outbreak. I'm sure you remember. I spent 2 months in Shanghai in 2004 for a California high tech company, to take care of clients in Shanghai. My daily reimbursable food allowance was $50 USD or ~$380 RMB The 5 star hotel we stayed at was about $200 USD/night or ~$1,500 RMB/night It was very easy for us to use the 380 RMB/day for food. A - - It's Shanghai, downtown. Food is naturally more expensive.. B - - Foreign food is more expensive than domestic.. I remember that across the street from my hotel, was a Holiday Inn hotel. The foreigner sports bar restaurant next to the Holiday Inn, always had Germans, and the Germans stayed at the Holiday Inn. This was a peak time for Schumacher in Formula 1, and the restaurant had special buffets for each country's F1 race. I went there to watch once. It was VERY OBVIOUS I was surrounded by Germans who loved their Schumacher! Loved the Germans. I was often impressed at how often I'd bump into Germans when in China. I weighed taking an ex-patriot job and living in Shanghai for few years, but turned it down. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

@@Leshic2 Yes. The SARS outbreak had been one year before, in 2002. I remember that clearly because it was the reason for why I got that gig as an intern in the first place. The project I was working on had been supposed to happen one year earlier and I would never have heard of it, but because of SARS, it was delayed by 1 year and so I got the chance to do it, because I needed a internship for my college schedule. Also the people I worked with in China told me stories about how they had to join in on the anti-SARS measures the year before. Because the company they worked for had its headquarters right next to a freeway entrance, they were ordered by the government to set up a checkpoint where every car and truck that wanted to drive up on the freeway, had to be sprayed with disinfectant. So apparently those young office workers had to stand around in hazmat suits, spraying vehicles all day in a 3 shift system all day and night for weeks. Back then you must have lived like a king with 50 Dollars per day, even in Shanghai, hehehe. I remember when we (my boss, me and 2 engineers from another German company working on the project) first arrived in Beijing. Someone invited us to a huge feast at a fancy restaurant. We were alone in a large dining room, with 4 young female waiters standing at attention at the wall the whole time, waiting to serve us and then returning to their waiting position afterwards and there was enough food to feed at least 30 people, even though we were only 8. And at the end, the guy who had invited us paid something like 300 RMB for the whole thing. It was mind boggling. For the first 10 years or so after my return from my China adventure, I kept telling people they should consider traveling there, because of how interesting it is and how good and cheap the food is. Too bad that I can't recommend that anymore, now that China went all xenophobic and paranoid. Yes, Schumacher was very popular in Germany back then. I never was much of a racing fan myself, but my father was and I too watched a few races back in the late 90s. You know how it is when there is a internationally successful athlete from a certain country. The people from that country will suddenly get interested in that sport, but largely forget about it again after that super athlete retires. Like when cycling and the Tour de France suddenly were interesting to Americans during Lance Armstrong's heyday. It had been like that before in Germany, with tennis during the 80s, when Steffi Graf and Boris Becker were active. I remember how during my childhood in the 80s, even the regular news would report on the current positions in the tennis ranking list in between news about peace talks between Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev, almost as if the tennis ranking list were equally important, hehe. Nowadays nobody in Germany cares about tennis anymore. It is interesting how a single athlete can cause a huge fad and move a whole nation like that. No wonder they make so much money. Basically whole industries develop, flourish and then sink back into obscurity around them.

@@TrangleC Great to hear your stories! The company I worked for, had a blanket policy of $50USD/day for international travel. They never tried adjust for this country or that. Interesting experiences you had for SARS.. I remember well when I went.. It seemed like the tail end of it.. There was a technical issue with our equipment at a customer in China and they demanded better support for it to work again.. I was really reluctant to go due to SARS, but had no choice.. I remember getting my temperature checked while still on the airplane before we exited to Shanghai Airport.. Walked through a full body temperature scanner before customs.. Temperature check again, each time I arrived at the hotel, each day I was in China. Temperature checked again, each day I arrived at our local office. Temperature checked again, each day I arrived at our customer's plant.. I enjoyed myself though and was impressed, and as well, recommended friends to check it out. As well, like yourself, no longer. I'm now strongly against how China functions. When you communicated with the Chinese, was it in Chinese, German, or English?

@@Leshic2 Are you sure you were there in 2003? Could it be that it was 2002 after all? When I arrived in August of 2003, SARS was considered over and there were no special measures in place at all. I never got checked for temperature, or anything like it, not even at the airports. I communicated in English. I learned a little Mandarin, just enough to order my own food at the restaurant, tell a taxi driver the name of the street I needed to go to and read parts of the bus schedules. You know, my job was to install and test a semi autonomous laboratory, which was supposed to find out whether a new landfill would produce enough methane gas to burn and run a little power plant. While I did that, another German company that had nothing to do with what I was doing, was installing a waste water treatment plant at the same landfill. That project was run by a young English engineer who was working for that other German company. We became friends and often hung out together. He was a great talent when it came to learning languages. He had learned German within 2 years and in China, after being there for 3 or 4 months, he was already able to tell jokes in Mandarin. I was nowhere near his level, even after a year in China. In my defense, he lived in a hotel and paid the hotel staff to teach him Mandarin in the evenings, while I was living in a dormitory, surrounded by workers who didn't speak English and who would have been too tired in the evenings to help me learn their language, anyways. Sounds like you had a tough time with those SARS measures. Glad to hear that you seem to have enjoyed your time there anyways. I only saw Shanghai once for a day and didn't get much of a impression of the city, but I bet that it was way more lively and interesting than a relatively small and remote city like Qingdao.

@@TrangleC I so love hearing your stories. You might be right that it was 2002'ish.. It was so long ago.. I've lost track.. I used to say 2005, but later realized that was wrong and guessed 2003'ish, but that seems to be wrong too! HAHAHA!!... Don't ask me how old I am because I don't keep track of that too. I know the year I was born and just do the math from there. Hahaha.. It's the truth. I spent about 3yrs traveling extremely often to Taiwan, before I was moved to China. My mandarin was barely ok to get by. Definitely below conversational.. Embarrassingly bad for how much time I spent in Taiwan and China, and around Chinese speakers.. Maybe I was spoiled because I'd always be with somebody who was fluent, so when the need came up, they always spoke up for me. You're line of work falls in line with what I often suspected Germans to be in China for... Energy infrastructure.. You don't happen to know if it was German companies or consultants that helped build/design/consult the Three Gorges Dam construction?

Technically yes, but they don't have good access to these stuff

It looks much better than India

@@sosoable and?

@@MrChopstsicks Better than the world's largest democracy

@@sosoable well, I’m not from the worlds largest democracy. And your point is?

@@sosoable you can say ccp china is better than whatever but it will never be as good as Taiwan

There's definitely a benefit to keeping the majority of citizens in poverty, in certain jobs and work on maintaining their nationalism. That's everything to the CCP government. Need to keep those factories open and the rate still hasn't improved for these people. That's also why they have been changing and demoting university degrees. Many won't have a choice to work in a factory 6 days a week for 1800 kuai a month.

a bit like how we behave when the government hands out vouchers lol

Yep. I've seen some African villages from travel bloggers, and the average Chinese downtown would be considered "developed" in comparison.

Except China is rich and the future world order

@@arishemghoul9571 Good one

@i'm the king well said

@i'm the king I never thought of it that way. Thank you for that.

I don't think so, but we're all welcome to our own opinions.

reminds me of back in January 2002, sitting by the river in Hue Vietnam at sunset with a beer and a German fellow tourist, watching a bicycle-pedal-powered dredge working in front of us - and feeling content with the world, we discussed how it might be staying in Vietnam where 'a good $2 a day job' like that guy could be enough I met a local girl working at a hotel desk earning US$26 a month - with that she was supporting 7 members of her extended family back in her village.

exactly!

Seems free to travel to these "poor" hidden places!

welcome to china ! I live in CHONGQING.

@i'm the king 4000 year civilizations and some almost half still don’t even have water.

I want to say no,it's not real,dude,you should research beijing or Shanghai's video,i think its can help u to figure out your confusing.because these people who went to Australia or japan is not high level people,because they can't earn lots of Money in chinamainland,in the other words,they are poor man in Chinese,but Korean is not,rich man will go to Canada and America Singapore

@@harryliu8281 My Chinese neighbor would strongly disagree with you. She's VERY critical of the Chinese attitude to things.

Yep But the fact is true Still Many towns and villages not clean,Not having proper roads, toilets,Basic infrastructure, Electricity thankfully it's changing Speedly Millions getting out of poverty stepping middle class, Government started to building All types of infrastructure from road to railway, Internet Booming here now,90% Indians now have Acces to electricity, Toilet