The real life of CHINA’s NORTHERN city
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- Have you ever heard about Taiyuan city? Once a capital of China's fabled Tang dynasty and long known as the “Dragon City", it was named one of the world's top ten most polluted cities in 2013. It's been China’s industrial capital and home of coal bosses, but now the ancient city roars back to life! We went there and explored the city's rapid transformation.
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0:00 Intro
1:00 New driverless metro
3:25 Electric taxi fleet
4:05 People are getting rich
5:03 Interview with young people
7:24 Jinci Temple
10:16 Taiyuan ancient county
12:01 Jinyang lake
13:25 Brick carving factory
17:25 Why Taiyuan is worth visiting?
What's inside?
0:00 Intro
1:00 New driverless metro
3:25 Electric taxi fleet
4:05 People are getting rich
5:03 Interview with young people
7:24 Jinci Temple
10:16 Taiyuan ancient county
12:01 Jinyang lake
13:25 Brick carving factory
17:25 Why Taiyuan is worth visiting?
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老外，你好，什么时候还来山西，山西还有很多等待你拍摄的有趣的特色文化。
I had lived in Taiyuan for a couple of years before corona hit. This video gave me such a nostalgic vibe.. Oh man :(
How was it? Not many foreigners there yet
@@LaowaiMe just gotta know where to look for them :) there’s a place called Old Bar, it’s at the intersection of Qinxian jie and Pingyang lu. Most of the foreigners go there every night and it gets pretty crowded, especially on Sunday-Tuesday nights (days off for most of the foreigners there). The city itself is a great place to live, but gets a bit stale over time. Not a lot of things to do, so you kinda have to travel around the country, if you want to do something really exciting. I still love it very much, the best years of my life.
As a Chinese person, I haven't been to many cities in China. I'm learning my country from foreign friends like you. I felt that I should have appreciated my country a little bit more after watching this kind of videos. Thank you for showing a different side of China.
Beautiful and peaceful China 🇨🇳👍👍👍
I am Taiyuan girl and am living in Germany for couple years. Taiyuan is still my love, my home. Thank you for the great video and showing the real china.❤️👍
何时回祖国？
回来哇！
Hope you are well in flooding happening in german, 老乡
@@tancheeming9569 疫情结束就回去！
@@user-cd7jz8ew9k 疫情结束就回去，吃王平面皮，喝郝刚刚羊汤：）
Love to see these topics about the real China. Another great video from you guys! ❤👍
I love love love Taiyuan 😍😍😍
Went there in 2017 it’s amazing
I had visited Taiyuan city and saw the modern, clean, efficient, and sophisticated underground coal mining about 30-40 km from the beautiful Taiyuan city. I like Taiyuan foods. I also went to Beijing by their HSR. It's so convenience. 👍👍🤣
The next video would be about Shanxi nooooodles! And vinegar haha
China never ceases to amaze Thankyou
slay ! Max☺️
Thanks for showing us another great example of rapid city transformation in China!
You are welcome! ;)
@@LaowaiMe Nice video! I like how you show the real life in China
Best of China: very cool channel!!
@ Best of China, I just subscribe to your channel. 😍
@@libranobleheart7315 Thanks for your support!! We have a great mission - bring the best of China to the world!
Thank you showing us around， love your video。
Great vlog content .china has great places to explore. Amazing
Nice video! ☀️
Brick carving art is mind blowing, so delicate and expensive
Nice meening in you I was in love with you. i'm from Brazil i like you we can get to know each other and thanks and not Need to offend only wish I had known .
不是砖雕，😂
thank you for sharing in global media, the north city taiyuan china...
I would like to visit Taiyuan and other places in China, green is the way for the benefit of future generations. Thumbs up.
I’ve never been to Taiyuan, but my father went to college there around 1958. Thanks for the video.
Wow! I will definitely go to Taiyuan ancient county just to fly back in time, want to feel myself in China 2000 yrs ago.
Yeah, they are gonna film movies there for sure
That’s Ming - Qing dynasty architectural style, so more like 300-400 years hahaha
The Communist Party declared Chinese culture bad, evil and wrong and smashed, looted and destroyed almost all of it.
@@topsuperseven7910 The U.S government also once declared slavery legal, and manifesting destiny by killing all the natives as ethical. Though they still maintain many of the original principles, the CCP of the 50s is not the same as the current CCP.
@@niubi3923 Hi, no, 'The US government' did none of those things.
Let's just be clear, you decided there is a continuous ruling party called 'The US government' just as there is a continuous ruling party called 'The CCP'.
Wow... just wowwwww with you.
Here is some advice to you: Never talk about anything like this again. Not politics, not history, not international events, never engage with these concepts and never talk about them like you have any good reason to be 'adding your thoughts' or engaging in any others.
wow. really wow.
You lover of evil things too. You are why the CCP will carry on abusing Chinese. You.
I’ve lived in China for 10 years before I left in 2017, I’ve seen China transforming. Very backward initially but grew modern every year. My love for China also grew
Cool! As a history student, I'm definitely attracted to the ancient city of Tai Yuan. Thanks for the video!
👍We have BYD taxis in Singapore too. 😁
At 4 million people this unknown Chinese city is already equal in size to Australia's largest city.
Taiyuan had a few thousand year head start
Unknown to the West maybe, it’s well known in China.
@@raylam3257 Not Shenzhen though.
5.3million people, the latest data. Taiyuan was built 2518 years ago.
moreover, it has a college called China Australia Business College of Shanxi, with around 5,000 students at least))
Great insight into an otherwise unknown city. That restoration of the ancient city is amazing. Thank you for an excellent presentation.
Nice quality content! Keep promoting Chinese culture. Learned alot of interesting stuff from this video. 😍
Not only Taiyuan City, but Shanxi Province is a treasure of Chinese culture. Welcome to visit Shanxi in spring time
Lovely place indeed. CZcams is anytime better than mainstream TV 😄. The entertainment is so in-depth, educational and genuine. Keep up the good work.🙏🏿
It is undeniable that the stunning rise of China has sparked a lot of envy.
US will say China steal the concept/copy rights. Oops whatever China did or invented, it is all stolen properties...out of envy, jealousy or just sheer stupidity.
envy by ignorant people
But also from China lol
It's undeniable you believe the rest of the world must be the same as Chinese people, they must think like Chinese people, they must have the same 'Shame Culture', the rest of the world surely see's everything through Chinese thought.
That is how ignorant you are.
No, in China your fundamental purpose of life, the most important and really the only thing that matters is your 'face culture' or materialistic 'shame culture' where everyone lives in perpetual 'jealousy' or shame at how someone else is relatively getting more stuff.
Here is some news: In fact, much of the world does NOT actually think in such a low, cheap and inferior way. I know this surprises you! You can't really understand it! but its true! most people are not cheap materialistic low-thinking xiao-ren and most don't have a 'shame culture' like you.
It's really confusing isn't it? Well, now you've finally learned something new about the real and big world outside your bubble!
@@topsuperseven7910 Are you saying that only Chinese people are materialistic? All human beings are alike, regardless of race.
this work is amazing, like a short documentary about Taiyuan. 🥰🥰🥰without your footage, even as a Chinese, I had no idea that Taiyuan, a traditional industrial city, had been transformed so successfully.
Yeah, we call our format “vlogumentary”
@@LaowaiMe make more volgumentaries plz!
10:20 I recognised this ancient city from Ying Yang Movie from Netflix....WOW is an amazing city Taiyuan. I will visit after the pandemic.
Thank you for your vlog.
Yeah, they are gonna film some movies there. For example, Zhang Yimou will film something there.
you will always change your plan if you follow his channel.
@@jerrylee1963 😁
I'm originally from northern China, and have been living in Germany for 27years. Now I'm looking for new opportunities in my homeland, first thought was Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and so on, you know the first liners. But after your video, I'm changing my mind, thanks for sharing!
OMG it’s the first time I’m seeing a foreigner making a video for my home city!! I’m so glad and so excited to watch it! Thank you so much for doing this and I’d like to see you shoot more videos of other places in Shanxi👍🏻
You can check our video about Datong :) czcams.com/video/dUdEvVv4eV4/video.html
3:09 In some southern cities, such as Hangzhou, there are some retired elderly people who find it too hot to go out in summer, but at home, they feel it expensive to turn on the air conditioning(China's elderly are used to a hard life when they were young), so they go to metro stations to enjoy the free cool air 🤣
Hahhahaha
I feel you! When I was a child, the electricity ran off quite often (shortage of electricity), and it was too hot inside the house that people had to get out... One common place that people used to go to enjoy cool air is the big commercial/ shopping center...
i am from Taiyuan. Great video and these changes are really happening in Taiyuan. There indeed are still many problems in Taiyuan now, but it is getting better and better. Hopefully, in the near future, Taiyuan could be a new tire 1 city and attract more people to come.
I have lived and studied in taiyuan from 2010 to 2017, which is a place full of memory for me.
How was it that time?
@@LaowaiMe It was really a heavily polluted city before 2014, particularly, 2011. I feel it becomes a clean city since 2015. And I miss the mountains around the city where i used to ride my bicyles.
Great video, thanks. Glad you are liking living and working in Zhongguo.
I have been to Taiyuan!! Your video brings back great memories (I ADORE Jinci)! Thanks a lot!
Just amazing and very innovative way to persevere to thousand year old Chinese civilization culture. Green- eco friendly is the best in big cities in future.
I like the metro entrance on the ground it looks very tradition chinese
China's rapid development has been beyond imagination over the past a couple fo decades, everywhere, including the third and fourth tier cities. More and more young folks start to consider building careers near their hometowns when more opportunities become available locally. That's the trend.
Yes; that’s what we realized. Young people are coming back!
Very interesting. I have watched a number of China travel vlog by westerners and I have never come across any on that part of China.
Excellent travelogue
I love this video. I have a friend in Taiyuan and I'd never heard of it before and couldn't really find much about it. Your general tour makes it look like a mini tier 1. Thanks!
Good video bro, your narative and the shooting are so profesional, great work, looking forward to other video.
the Yingze park is a very beautiful place, espeacially in the night !! and the Taiyuan botanical garden is also worth to come
I'm so happy that you've featured Jinci in your vid! It's a hidden gem and a time capsule. The faded paint on the old wooden structures and sculptures is so atmospheric and evocative. The fact that it has survived numerous earthquakes, wars, and the cultural revolution is a miracle. More people need to visit and treasure this place.
Yes I envy the development made by China.
Thank you showing us around. Love it.
My birth place, it has changed so much in the past 20 years though
And where are you now? What about your relatives, are they in Taiyuan?
@@LaowaiMe Have been abroad since very young, most of my relatives are in Pingyao (a city in Shanxi), but my parents now reside in Shanghai. From your videos, Taiyuan and Datong seem to have developed even more since my last visit, but overall the economy in Shanxi is very mehhh now that the coal industry has completely declined.
@@sqian2004 Pingyao is a super cool place, but we didn't have time to go there ;( As for their economy,.. they are looking for new models and sources. Actually, Datong is doing it quite well. Many old people from Beijing go there to live.
这是我的家乡，非常的宜居。变化非常大，以前漫天黄沙，现在空气气候都很好。但是作为一个北方城市，给年轻人的机会不多，经济发展的还要有待提升。我如今已经离家快二十年了，如果有一天我老了，我还想回去。
其实发展的也很快，只是在有其他省份对比的情况下就显的很慢，中国发展的真的太快了
老乡，我也是，离开太原20多年了，年龄越来越大，越来越想家，想中国，想中国的文化，吃的，玩的etc
I love this video so much, I have been out of China for almost 5 years, it changed a lot everywhere, hope can see more different city introductions from your channel.
I am from Taiyuan, been away from my hometown for more than 3 years, missing home and thank you for showing the city in your video.it is so amazing visiting my hometown through your video.
*Greetings gentlemen*
Enjoy your adventure in China
Thank you!
@@LaowaiMe you're welcome
Fabulous place. Watching from Australia.
The weather still seems pretty cold.
It was late April, but it’s north of China. Real spring comes in May
amazing, you can shoot video in the stations...
Yeah! Why not? haha
@@LaowaiMe It's difficult in Russia and Ukraine though 😀
@@liveenjoy6821 why？
Welcome to my home town, bro! Thanks a lot for your video!
Damn that ancient county area looks so amazing. Would love to explore it one day. It makes me curious 😃
台灣來的
老外角度看中國
So good👍👍
喜抓同胞一枚。认同感满满😘爱你。欢迎，热烈欢迎回祖国玩。
欢迎台湾同胞来大陆玩哦
@@user-vs6vc5he5x 300,000+ troops of CCP attacked this NORTHERN big city, in the late 1940's. Not sure how many of them ( Communist Party's soldiers ) died in the battle field before their dreams came true.
as a chinese who never been to taiyuan,i feel it is a good city
Awesome video. Love it. Keep the videos coming! Can't wait to get back into China!
Wow, thank you so much for making this video! I visited Taiyuan briefly as a stopover in 2012 after visiting Pingyao. I thought it was a real dump. I even met a person from Taiyuan in Xian and thought he was a "country bumpkin". My how things have changed in just 8 years! It's a real reversal- people were embarassed to be from interior cities, but now they will likely have a higher quality of life! It's showing the real heart of China that's interesting- not just the famous areas that everyone else goes to!
We haven’t been to Pingyao yet
It is estimated that your videos will become popular soon, add oil💪💪💪
谢谢！
Yes, 1000s of Mainland Chinese with VPNS will upvote them then leave shitty comments about the USA and the evil 'West'. This Shill can expect lots of Mainland Chinese to see his videos made for Mainland Chinese people to watch.
@@topsuperseven7910 oh cmon dude don't be like that
This is my hometown! 乡愁
Thank you for sharing.
Being a Chinese, I only read in History lesson about this city, nice! ☺️
10:19 was like playing Total Wars Three Kingdoms
lol It's really huge! We realized it only after saw a drone footage
Oh man this is my hometown! Great video and looking forward to more trips/videos to the north!
Awesome! Thanks for your videos introducing real life inside China! Keep on!
beautiful introduction of taiyuan. thank you. wish i was there with you from Singapore
Thanks for sharing this~
Excellent presentation !! Thank you.
Great video 👍👍👍
that craftsmanship debunks the made in china = crap statement. amazing work.
2rmb is about 0.25 pound for 5 stations journey that is very cheap indeed. In comparison, in Uk, On the London underground, a single station journey cost 1.5 pound.
1,5 one station!! wtf
WTF！Too expensive
Wow! Amazing!
Thanks for sharing this amazing video, I am the Chinese who’s from yuci, the small town super close to taiyuan, I have been living in Toronto for more than 6 years, the last time I went back was 2019, I am missing there so much, I love my country, I love the local people. However, I must to stay in Canada, this is my life schedule, I need to improve myself as a grad. but in one day in my middle age, I definitely will go back to the place where I stem from, my root, and the source of my memory.
Thanks for sharing!
A really great video. China does some remarkable things. Rebuilding the church was amazing. I really regret that I'm too old to give China a try, so I watch a lot of videos. Will subscribe now!
Thank you!
Great job👍
Just found your vlog. Very interesting. Subscribed for more.
A bit hard to hear your english accent but wonderful still.
Guess you're from somewhere in Europe eh? I'm from Malaysia, Borneo. The land below the wind.
I see mansana is here too.
Thanks! Haha, I'm trying my best. I'm Russian ;) And the thing is I have to speak Chinese every day, so it's a bit hard to switch 3 languages always. It would be better ;)
Thanks for the video, nice shots....
A great video, thanks.
Thank you for sharing video.
Eye opening video 👍👍👍
Informative video. Keep it up.
Thank you for your support!
Tks for you to recommend my hometown !
gosh, could hardly get to the end of these here comments))
Great job, bro. Huge kudos to you
Glad you like my hometown. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much, Artem
Good job bro !
This is so cool.. Thank you for showing us the beautiful lake n temples n all the cultural aspects of Taiyuan. Truly wonderful!
Glad you enjoyed it!
it very well!
great job!
Thanks for sharing
Surprisingly discovered this video about my home city haha. Born and grew up in Taiyuan until I was 18. Because of the pandemic I've not been home for two years. You beat me in taking the newly built Taiyuan metro!
Very impressive! Subscribed
May I suggest something. It good to start the video with a key map showing the place in China, you about to introduce.
Good suggestion! Thank you! Will dot for the future videos
Hello, thank you for your video so I can come to know my husband's city! Thank you!
Like your presentation about Taiyuan
Wow my hometown is looking good!
Thanks for sharing your stories in Taiyuan City. That's amazing.
Our pleasure!
Good video.So much to explore...🌷🌷🌷