Exploring China's Huge & Fascinating Road Network | The Grand Tour

With a motorway of 84,000 miles - more than any other country - the trio explore China's incredible and vast road network.

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[Stno]

To put that into perspective: the combined total cost of building an entire motorway network (300billion $) and high speed rail network (300billion $) in China is still less than cost of Iraq War for the US (1 trillion $)... it’s also about your priorities

[daviddavidsonn]

meanwhile in the UK it costs £20 millions to build a roundabout...

[jackiebrown]

This is like one of those city simulation games where you just drag along your cursor and the road get built

[alejandrofallas]

Man hats off to engineers, architects and workers, those bridges and highways are really one of a kind modern marvels!!!

[ijustworkhere]

The Chinese build 6000 miles of road each year. Meanwhile in Britain, it took a team of construction workers 3 weeks to fill in a pothole in a road near my neighbourhood

[Ratplague]

In my city in the US there's a section of road that's been under construction for my entire life.

[hamsterox]

The cinematography in this video deserves praise.

[Ignisan_]

China is not like other countries. China is simply special. 5000 years of history, culture, civilization. Simply amazing.

[wiseshabba]

Meanwhile in South Africa 🇿🇦 the roads pot holes can change a radio channel or even take you from front seat to back seat

[vindolanda]

I was in China in the 1990's, travelled a lot. Lots of bad, scary roads, beaten up buses, locals on horses. In 2014 I trekked around some of those places. In the middle of nowhere on the Tibetan plateau at 3-4000M altitude there were hundreds of KM of gigantic elevated highways like in this video under construction. It was stunning.

[vercingetorix]

If anyone was interested
Music:
Dario Marianelli - Summit (Everest OST)

[Vikotnick]

This is a way to tell people to travel. I live in Europe and we always fancy ourselves quite wealthy and forward thinking. It wasn't until I started going to other places around the world, and especially Asia, that I realized that they are focusing on real problems on a giant scale while we rant on about if a statue of someone who has been lost to time can actually be moved 10 cm to the left to allow for a bike lane.

[sam]

Meanwhile in India : the bridge construction that started when my dad was in 4th grade got completed when I passed high school. 😒😒

[tabyactayto]

20 years ago it took 15 hours from my hometown to shanghai. Now it only takes two and half hours I love the high speed train

[ornekali]

In the Netherlands it took more than 6 months to complete an underpass. For over 12 years Germany still works to finish the maintenance on Cologne-Dusseldorf highway.

[charlielee]

I grew up in a rural province in China, traveling to the provincial capital for me was like visiting Beijing. Bearing in mind I live in a province that borders Vietnam. Beijing was unimaginable for me. I had no concept of my country as a whole. Now its so different, translation is so much better. It’s crazy.

[MarkNealon]

I first went to China in 2012 and I came back raving about the motorways having seen the route from Chengdu to Kunming. Nobody I told about it seemed to really get how impressive it was, glad to see a video to back me up.

[John-qzbb]

No surprise, after all we are talking about a nation that built the 20000km great wall 2000 years ago, on the top of mountains!

[alfienaylor]

Meanwhile, the best Leicester City Council could do one year was give some of their lampposts a fresh coat of paint.

[Petite_Mustang]

I love the way he ended by saying "In Britain, we are doomed". He should have added the US in there because in the US, "we are fucked".