The Massive Chinese Cities You've Never Heard Of... Yet

Executive Producer and Narrator - Fred Mills
Producer - Dan Cortese
Video Editing and Graphics - Thomas Canton

Additional footage and images courtesy of Google Earth, Buernai and Shanshan Group.

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[hazzatheman]

I love this channel. It has got me and all of my friends interested in construction! After watching this channel I now want to become an architect! Thanks B1M!

[exxon]

A Chinese girl once told me she was from a 'small city' called Zibo, so I looked it up, turns out it has a population of 4, 5 million...
When I told her I was from a town of 120 people she thought I left out a few zeros 😅

[eIonmusk]

When I’m in China and people ask me where in the US I’m from, I tell them I’m from a village called Seattle. It only has 800, 000 people. 🌚

[Propapanda]

A Chinese: “my hometown is a small city.”

What a small city in China looks like:

[wandererguy]

When you set foot in China for the first time, the sheer scale of everything just leaves you at awe. it's incredible

[redherring]

The rate at which they have developed in just 30/40 years is one of the most incredible feats in human history. Absolutely mind-blowing.

[runqianliu]

Fun fact, Foshan is home town of Ip Man, the man who taught Bruce Lee how to fight.

[Nature-efqp]

There are 436 chinese cities bigger than Norway's capital Oslo, that's insane

[wengezhu]

There is a common misunderstanding between China and US in term of the naming of their cities: For example, even though the city of Seattle has "only" over 740, 000 people the Seattle metro has over 4 million people and if it were in China, the entire metro would be called city of Seattle. In China, a city is larger than a county and usually contains several counties while in US for example, the LA county (10 million people) has 88 cities and the city of LA (3.9 million) is only one of them. Again, if SoCal were in China, the entire SoCal metro (including several counties, including LA county), which has a population of 24 million, would be called the city of LA. Another dimension of the story is that even though US cities/metros are smaller in term of population, but they are much larger in geographic size as they are less densely popoluated.

[veetvoojagig]

Some cities that weren't explicitly identified in the video:
0:41 Hangzhou
0:47 Suzhou
1:14 Shenzhen
1:20 Hangzhou
1:24 Suzhou
1:31 Suzhou again
1:35 Shanghai
2:18 Shenzhen
2:23 Wuhan
2:28 Guangzhou
7:01 Suzhou
7:12 Shanghai

[stijnhs]

I've visited a couple of these cities. Ningbo especially is futuristic as hell.

[RSID]

The US spent 1.7 trillion on the F-35 JSF program. China spent 1.7 trillion on the belt and road initiative. Gives you a perspective where priorities lie with these countries.

[Harveyinchina]

I've lived and vlogged Foshan (the first city mentioned in this video) for around 7 months now. Even in the time since I arrived, new skyscrapers, metro lines, shopping malls and more have all literally SPRUNG up. The Chinese build so so fast.

[luzovich]

I remember visiting China in 1983. I can't imagine what it's like now. I visited a few of the named cities in this video and they looked nothing like this back then. Wow, what a change and so quickly. Really amazing.

[szlonkobusjbusj]

While staying in Shanghai Chinese friends invited me to visit with them their family in the countryside. They lived in Wuxi.

[Samuel_J]

But China only has 10 cities!

Seriously though, 1.4 billion people have to live somewhere. It blows my mind that there are so many huge cities that I've never heard of, and they have such a big impact on the national and global markets.

[jonathanng]

It's insane to see how well China distributes their land, population, specialise WHOLE cities (Jinan for tech, Ningbo as trade hub). I believe with their huge population, they could easily become the worlds largest economy once all infrastructure and cities are fully developed. The country is a lot different now

[TheBM]

Somedays it feels like we're that massive YouTube channel that no one's heard of.... YET

[ethanzhang]

I was born and raised in Chengdu and now live in Sydney Australia. Have to say every time I go back to Chengdu I experience the speed of development. The city had no metro line prior to 2010, now it has 12 lines totalling 500+km metro system with another 8 expansion/lines or 200+km to be completed by 2024.. It also built the second biggest international airport (Tianfu, TFU) in China under 5 years while Australians are arguing over a light rail… still love and enjoy living in Australia but the media here seem to only cover bad things about China. I mean they mention China on the TV every single day and I've never heard one thing good being reported…

[windywendi]

The sight of talking about China without mentioning politics is so refreshing.