After a lot of hard work? By whom? I thought the Tiananmen Square Protest by Beijing University Students and Beijing Residents in 1989 and the Deng Xiaoping's massacre of the Beijing students and citizens is what forced the Chinese Communist Party to allow a controlled influx of industrial manufacturers to open up factories in Communist China. Deng and his Communist cronies were worried that if they just continue as they have since Mao's death then there would be mass protests all across communist-controlled China. Industrial manufacturers from free-market capitalist, democratic Republics brought their skills and factories into to a backward and under-developed third-world country (i.e. China) and gave the Chinese people the modern conveniences the rest of the free world had been enjoying since the end of WWII. Let us not forget that Mao's Great Leap Forward and Agricultural Collectivization from 1957-1962 starved 30 to 45 million peasant Chinese farmers and their families to death. The Chinese Communist government is one of the most incompetent governments in world history. The Chinese Nationalist Party overthrew the last Qing Emperor in hopes of establishing a modern Republic. The former feudal lords of the Qing Emperor empowered by their private armies, the Japanese Imperial Army invasion of China, and the Stalin-backed Chinese Communist Army ended any hope of democratic Republican rule of China. The Chinese Communists seized control of China they made sure China would remain backwards and poor. Second largest economy in the world. Are you sure? The Chinese Communist Party is a totalitarian government. They control everything including all information. Are you sure they are the second largest economy in the world? When the Mao and Chinese Communist were starving 30 to 45 million Chinese peasant farmers and their family to death. The Chinese Communists covered up the famine caused by their own policies. The Chinese Communists covered up the deaths. The Chinese Communists presented fake news that Communist China was socialist utopia, a land of plenty. The Chinese Communists are good at one thing. Lying.

Yeah, nowadays is convenient, we have all developed

Will Wen Because the Capitalists wanted you to be their slaves.

Oh, really? Like animals?

JHVN Herrmann That’s wonderful, may I ask when was the time you were living there?

Self storage facilities don't exist in America only because we have too many things. They exist because Americans live transient lives. We often must store our possessions in temporary places because we will be moving from city to city many times in our lives. This mentality and freedom doesn't exist in many other places. An Asian is more likely to die in the town where he was born than an American. And, sadly, sometimes the storage facilities are used by people who are nearly homeless. When they are evicted from their homes, they will scratch out a living for enough money to store their things until they can again find a home. Part of a contract at these facilities states that you will not live in the space that you rent. Sadly, I personally have known people who have done that!

@@kritische3959 China has greatly changed since Mao's time. I was there from 1999-2012 and I am an economics professor. The economics used now is mainstream but the dictatorship was lessened after Mao died. Since Xi Jinping got there his dictatorship has become worse than it was before he was president. The USA and China are both dynamic. that is they are both changing in their own ways It is always interesting. take care.

No 007 movies to watch in 1960's. but Chinese people don't need stuff like that.

HAIHUA CHEN Of course, we can live without it.

That’s the thing these people were forced to live this way.

Thanks for identifying the location. Most comments talk about Wuhan.

4：35这里

Thank you, too, for identifying location by means of train station sign.

Now, it is getting interesting. How in the world did Wuhan get into all this?

Xuan Bi 那个时候武汉和上海是唯一外国人熟知的繁华城市，有其他口音很正常

是这边口音，小孩说的话我听懂了

声音是假的， 后期配上的都市杂音。 当年他的录影是没有声音的， Micheal 已经说明了。 你会发现影片好像没车在行驶时候， 也听到车的声音。

1:03 王麻子剪刀

No cars in China in 1964, WHY.

从唐朝到大清中国都是第一或第二经济体，又能说明什么？

More like malnutrition

@@carmenw4326 you just don't know what malnutrition looks like then. India suffered from much, much more malnutrition during the same period.

disway71 it’s 100% wuhan, it’s a super city just like shanghai, at that time, wuhan is as important as shanghai, however this city paid a lot tax to government in order to develop other city, such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen. I was born in wuhan, I know the history of this city. You can go there nowadays and you still can see these characters and it still super huge city nowadays.

@@creamcoffee9901 excelent coment..

Shanghai and Wuhan were very similar by then. They were both influenced by foreign countries like UK, US and Russia. You can tell by the buildings. Hankou was like the bund in Shanghai

@@carmenw4326 ah, yes. Thankyou. I wondered about that. The buildings at the 3 and a half minute mark look very Victorian or western. We have similar late 1800s buildings in my home town of Rockhampton QLD Australia. Also the domed looking building 5:30 minutes into the video. Fantastic footage.

汉语里贫与苦是两码事。 都是全日制教育洗脑改变了汉语的结果。

Colin Campbell tens of billions starved to death? kind of delusional aren’t you?

@@oakstgorillas yeah typo 😂

Colin Campbell This footage was recorded in 1964, the cultural revolution hasn’t started yet.

@@oakstgorillas miss type.

@@kritische3959 and your point? It's the deeds which started it.