Strolling Through Downtown Nanjing: A Walk Along ZhongShan Road
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Join me on a delightful stroll through the heart of Nanjing as we explore the bustling ZhongShan Road in downtown. Experience the vibrant energy and unique sights of this iconic street, which serves as the pulse of the city's bustling urban life. From historic landmarks to modern marvels, immerse yourself in the rich beauty of Nanjing's culture and heritage. Don't miss out - come along for a short walk and discover the charm of ZhongShan Road with me!
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Filming Date: December 26, 2022
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Part 2 of this video is available here - czcams.com/video/GpZDSIibqc0/video.html
It is rare to see a relatively modern city with such a good green coverage, and I feel that the urban environment is very comfortable.
Nanjing is a nice modern city with long history and most of Chinese know it well. I am from Shenzhen, one of the modernest China cities with a pretty good green coverage. Welcome to Shenzhen.
I'm a student from Germany who plans to take a language course at 南京大学 in the upcoming semester. I received a CSC scholarship, but as of right now, the university only plans to teach online courses. I'm hopeful that I might enter the country, though, since China seems to be taking steps to allow people into the country more easily again.
I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work. I hope I'll be able to walk down the same streets soon :-)
I hope they allow students to come back soon. It really changes the dynamic of the city when there is a big student community. Let's keep our fingers crossed you will be able to come here soon!
@@xiaoandmatt isn't it that China is opening up now? all the C-19 restrictions have been removed?
@@handaxia1251 Yes, finally.
早就解封了，我知道马来西亚的学生已经回来了。
I am from Nanjing, but now living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for the last 21 years. it is so good to see my hometown from your camera. I specially like today's episode of Zhong Shan Lu, every time I back came to Nanjing, I always met my friends here for Coffee and diners. Thank you!
Thanks for the comment. I'm happy that you like my videos of beautiful Nanjing. I am quite jealous that you live in Amsterdam to be honest. I have been there a few times and absolutely love it. I will be making a lot more videos about Nanjing, so stay tuned!
讲人话...
@@caslu6578 LMAO JUST cus ppl speak ENG? 不喜欢看英文你可以回到简中网络，谢谢。
@@bsyshidjitian how to switch to simplified chinese network, could you tell me please, grand thanks
@@caslu6578 别人说英文，你叫别人说人话？义和团是吗？
There was a German guy living in Nanjing during WWII who also gave shelter to the Chinese. Cant' remember his name. Maybe it's John Rabe but i don't know. He painted a large swastika on the roof of the shelter so that the Japanese wouldn't bomb it. Some people called him China's Schindler.
Ironic that the American government officials stationed in Nanjing at the time refused to help the Chinese. The USA government knew the Japanese troops were massacring the Chinese people but didn't stop them, for decades it even denied there was any massacre done by Jaoanese troops in Nanjing!
His name is John Rabe, people of Nanjing will not forget him.
For me Nanjing can be the perfect city in China, because its size, history, location, modernity and university quality. Two other favourite cities are... Xuzhou and Xiamen!!
I’m here to see my home city. I miss everything there. Thanks for making these fantastic videos.
You are very welcome! It makes me really happy to hear that these videos mean something to Nanjingers around the world.
I miss China so much. No place like it. Great video
Thank you!
Nanjing ❤ is the one most modern city in China. I build Metro there for Line 10 ,3. enjoy your life in Nanjing. And pls. Visit Souzhou and get to Metro. I also build Metro Line 2.
I am a Canadian borned half Chinese and Japanese, but I stayed in Nanjing which is my dad's hometown for over 6yrs when I was in elementary skl. Which is a very beautiful city indeed!!
great video...not as crowded as I would expected.
Nice walk! I haven't been to Xinjiekou like for ages. I live in Jiangning District, which is down south. Cycling along Qinhuai River in Jiangning is recommended in Spring time. Try it with Xiao.
Thanks for the suggestion Alvin!
I’ve visited Nanjing for the first time yesterday (July 5) and had some serious retail therapy while there. I absolutely love the city. It is less than 40 minutes away from my home in Changzhou. I would definitely be visiting it again. ❤
I'm a Latina living in Nanjing too, far away from the downtown though. I would say that living in Nanjing has been amazing , I never imagined all this beautiful green spots, bicycles, universities, delicious food and fruits. 💝
Missing soo much nanjing
Lives for 6yrs 🎉
2007-2013
Come back!
Nice and interesting videos. Seen a few of your videos today. Yet to see Nanjing. Now China has open her borders, intent to go visit in 2023. Please show pedestrian street malls in Nanjing. Everytime when we go to China cities, we will go there shopping.
Will do!
@@xiaoandmatt thank you , appreciate it
Nanjing is awesome. Have been to Nanjing a couple of times in 2019 staying at the Zifeng tower and Jinling hotel. hope to return later this year.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Thanks for the comment! I hope you will be able to return one day!
IMPRESSED. SUBSCRIBED. 👍
Thank you!
Thank you so much for your videos ! I really enjoy watching them ! Thank you for sharing to the world on CZcams and take time to make these videos and show the beautiful places that there are in China ! 🇨🇳
Thanks for the comment! It is my pleasure to make these videos!
Zifeng tower is 450m tall, it has the same height as the Purple mountain which is just east of the city. I also believe its how the tower get its name from, since Purple mountain in Chinese is Zijin mountain.
Amazing video man!! My family is from nanjing so we used to go there alot before corona. Everything looks so modern and new now. I hope i can go back again soon and experience the city again!
Beijing West Road to Beijing East Road is one of the most beautiful roads in Nanjing in my opinion
Thanks for these videos. I lived in Nanjing from 2020 to summer of 2022. Loved walking Nanjing and think it is one of the most special cities in the world. Please walk Shanghai Lu at some point. Also, would love to see something across the river in Pukou. Maybe out at Lao Shan?
Hey Edward. I'm glad you enjoy these videos. I actually did walk Shanghai Lu already - czcams.com/video/8EJ0yZ8tzVQ/video.html I do plan to make a video at Laoshan. I actually went there a few weeks ago, but it was a cloudy day, so I didn't film. I will make a video there in the spring.
Cool! Thanks for this! I worked at NIIT in 2009. I loved my time in Nanjing.
You are welcome!
When I lived there in 2019 we used our phones to unlock the bikes...so it has been updated.
Good report.
I like these videos, I’m surprised you don’t have more subscribers.
Thanks. I just started posting consistently on this channel last week and my subscriber count has jumped by about 6x. Last year I posted some random videos on this channel, but none really got much traction and I didn't really post consistently which is what you need to do to grow a channel. I was focused on my other CZcams Channel - www.youtube.com/@teachermatt
Hi! I remember you from Nanjing Normal University language courses 2019-2020. I didn't know you had a CZcams Channel! Glad that you're still in Nanjing, take care. Subbbb
I lived on Hexi. It was a Very nice part of town.
Yeah it is nice
Thank you for doing these videos. I was born in Nanjing and now life in California. Getting so homesick 😢
It's my pleasure and I know how you feel. I haven't been home since August 2019 and am very homesick. I look at Google Earth/Maps and browse the street views and aerial views of places in my hometown and other familiar places to deal with my homesickness. Hopefully we can all visit our homes soon. I will keep posting these videos as long as people are watching.
Wow, your channel is growing fast! I think I was the 341st subscriber only yesterday or a couple days ago!
Yeah people seem to like these walk and talk videos.
@@xiaoandmatt I really appreciate when someone that speaks English (or Spanish) and lives in China and loves it, tells me about it.
@@Kairava I will continue to bring you new videos to watch!
@@xiaoandmatt I look forward to them!
I really enjoy this video. These places are also what I am most familiar with, yet I lived in the East side of this neighborhood.
There are many nice small cafe around 大石桥街, 四牌楼路, 蓁巷，大纱帽巷, hidden in neighborhood. love them and miss them😍
One of my favorite spot in the old city is Wuchao Gate Park, a gate of the burnt down Forbidden Palace
such a beautiful city.
Nice, there are still people on the streets. Hoping the omicron wave passes by quickly and life can resume in earnest.
thanks for letting us know what the real life in China now cause there are lots of fade vedios in youtube about China now
Still using the card to use the public bikes provided by government, which are free for even one day use. You can get the card by paying a deposit of about 300RMB. you can get the deposit back if you don't want to use the bike anymore.
Could you please make a video including 清凉山公园 - 江苏省人民医院 - 随家仓- 宁海路 (they are near Nanjing Normal University).
Thank you !
(Summer would be more beautiful 🤩)
Sure! I actually used to live next to 清凉上公园. I will make a video there in the spring.
@@xiaoandmatt thanks very much ! I actually graduated from 瑯小；haha what a coincidence 🧐🤔 . So also suggest making videos on 1. 北京西路 - 南京艺术学院 (beautiful avenue in Spring or Summer) 2. 中山东路林荫大道or 长江路 3. 中山陵 All the best
@@soniachen3118 Awesome will do! These roads are much more beautiful in the spring and summer, so maybe I will wait to film there.
love it
I had a business trip to Nanjing in Feb 2004, the destination is the building on the right side in the video in 0:11 , there is a business restaurant named Yosemite if you continue walking down the street to the right of that building. There I had my first dating with my girl friend with whom I met in that city. Hopefully we could get back to Nanjing this year 4 years since the pandemic started.
Thanks for the comment. It's nice to hear about peoples' memories of Nanjing in the comment section of these videos. Nanjing is a much loved city. Please do come back and visit Nanjing when you get a chance.
Hi Matt, maybe do a walk around Jiming temple and Xuanwu Lake Park if you haven’t done it already. Thanks for doing these walks
Thanks for the comment. I'm going to wait until the spring to walk around Xuanwu Lake. I have a video on filmed on the wall near the lake that I made in 2020 when the weather was nice that I can post on this channel if people want to see that. I will go into the park and film a walk and talk video in April or May. I think I can go to Jiming Yemple soon though.
homesick... my parents live about 15 min walk from the Deji plaza
I'm glad my video could bring you a little closer to home. I haven't been back to my home in almost 4 years and I also watch youtube videos that people have posted in different places in my hometown.
Good to see your video as I'm from nanjing,I recommand you to have a visit to taicheng,which is near the jiming temple,you can walk in the taicheng city wall have see both zijin mountain and xuanwu lake，and also fuzi temple is most famous interest place in nanjing，near fuzi temple there is a beautiful place called laomendong，which mendong means east from zhonghua gate，you can visit in night for both fuzi temple and laomendong because night scene is more beautiful.
Thank you for the suggestions! Will do!
Nice walkabout of Nanjing. You should visit the Nanjing massacre memorial. Take a Saturday.
Is the nanjing university of posts and telecommunication a good one to study in ?
PS: Thank you for this amazing video !
Hey. Thanks for the comment Lyna. Honestly I don’t know much about all the universities in Nanjing. Maybe I can go there and make a video.
❤❤❤oct 2017🎉
Great Video, visit Chengdu if you have the time. Not many foreigners/Americans left. Nevertheless still one of the best cities in China for food exploring.
My wife loves Chengdu. She studied there, so she always talks about how great the food is and wants to go back to visit. Now that the COVID restrictions are lifted we do plan to visit.
@@xiaoandmatt nice, give me a holler when you guys visit Chengdu Matt. My wife is a local, I'm sure gonna miss CD when I move back to New York. She will be in labor in a few weeks and can't wait to have a spicy 👶 ...lol
Totally different from western medias saying about China
Nanjing is my home city😄
Do you still live in China?
@@xiaoandmatt 我生在南京，长在南京，27年前来加拿大。三年没回去了。您的视频勾起我的思乡之情，很让我感慨。谢谢🙏
the pedestrian and the road are so wide and clean 👍❤
anyway... why can't i see any homessless on the street? where are they?
I see some people asking for money on the streets, but the situation isn’t as bad in downtown Nanjing as it is in other cities I have traveled to in China - for example Guangzhou. In Nanjing it’s not as common to see groups of homeless downtown. Normally I will just see a few here or there. I normally will toss them 5-10 rmb or scan their QR code and give them some money. There was a homeless man who lived outside a bar I used to go to all the time. One time I actually gave him 50 rmb and I think his eyes were so bad he didn’t even realize how much I gave him.
@@xiaoandmatt will you take us to see any slums area in Nanjing?
@@freethinker585 I have never seen the slums of Nanjing. I have seen poorer areas of Nanjing, but the people are still living in apartments - the quality is just not as good. I’ll have to find a good area and go wander around and film. Nanjing is a relatively rich city, so even the people here at the lower end are not that bad off. When I lived in Tianjin I saw some sketchier neighborhoods where there were chickens running around outside and the roads were dirty, but I wouldn’t even call it a slum like you are thinking of.
Just now I was in the metro station in the center of the city waiting for my wife and I saw three homeless people come in and search the trash for food. There are homeless people in Nanjing, I just have no idea where they stay. Years ago I saw some sleeping in the metro station when I went through there late at night, but for the past 3-4 years I haven’t seen them there anymore. I will see if I can find out if there’s a place where many of them are and make a video there.
@@xiaoandmatt USA and Europe has lots of homelessness it's reality in the west..🤣😅 china is far ahead now and very developed compared to usa and Europe
Does it snow in Nanjing ?
Yeah, but not every year. Some years there will be one decent snow storm and some years there won't even be any snow at all.
You know about nanjing university of sience and technology, Is it a good university to study?
Outstanding in the field of military engineering
Do you know if Nanjing University's campus is open now?
I'm not sure. I am not in Nanjng at the moment.
this place is famous for mosque. 6:20
Fashion Lady still there?
Yeah it is. I have actually thought of making a video there. What do you think?
@@xiaoandmatt think its a great idea - used to head down there way back when. Curious to see what its like nowadays! Love the content btw
@@therenschchild1 Sounds good. I'll probably go down there sometime soon and make a video.
@@xiaoandmatt awesome!
南京是中国四大古都之一，历史底蕴是天津没法比的。
没错！