5 Successful Chinese Megaprojects
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Discover the awe-inspiring mega projects of China! From the colossal Three Gorges Dam to the futuristic Tiangong Space Station and the ambitious South-North Water Transfer Project, witness engineering marvels shaping the nation's future!
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An honorable mention (in my opinion) is the expressway network. A bit over 100,000 miles of expressway built in 35 years, an average of 8 miles each day.
They are going for 200000 in 2025
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He's probably too busy covering the gymnasium roof collapse that killed dozens of middle schoolers that the CCP is trying (unsuccessfully) to cover up...
This serpentza is an ignorant, sinophobic and Arrogant LIAR who has no proper job as well as barely speak chinese. Pathetic of you to believe in such a Failure 🤣👏👏👏👏
You mean the racist guy
@@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj 🤡
*getting massively distracted by Simons ankle* huh, I guess those Victorians were on to something.
Not actually Simon’s ankle. When on camera, Simon uses stunt ankles, just encase.
1:05 - Chapter 1 - The 3 gorges dam
4:35 - Chapter 2 - Shenzen
7:50 - Chapter 3 - High speed rail
12:40 - Chapter 4 - Tiangong space station
15:05 - Chapter 5 - The south north water transfer
Thank you for providing this service for those that are too ADHD to sit through a 15 minute video.
Love you bro❤
I for one welcome our Chinese overlords
Lol. Thanks, Kent 😂
You have no choice.
Three Gorges Dam ... $38 billion is not a lot of money for 22,500 MW of power production.
I've worked on several power projects here in the US that cost over $1 billion, and produce less than 500 MW.
Most nukes are under 800 MW, making them the most expensive to build.
That’s because America has the most expensive infrastructure build costs on the planet as legal authority and permitting isn’t centralized and anyone can sue the project to drive up costs like the ultra wealthy.
Three Gorges Dam already recover it construction cost from the power production profit many years ago.
And producing electricity is only the SECOND priority on the list. The number one priority is flood control.
But in the civilized world, you have to pay the workers more than $10.00 a week.
Chinese construction workers make the equivalent of $1.20 to $2.00 per hour depending on their job. Due to the raising cost of living in China, no one will work for less unless they are desperate.@@bryanmccarthy6493
REQUEST: There usually isn't a problem with the background music but there were times during this video that I could hardly hear Simon because the background music was so loud. Is there anyway to turn that down? I mean...Simon's voice is usually easy to hear clearly but not this time. There's no sense in listing time stamps because it's throughout the video that this occurs.
Totally agree. It’s a bit intense and distracting at points too. Normally don’t even notice the background music but I think it’s usually done well
Came here to say this
You never get this kind of reports on mainstream media.
All I hear is "Chinese economy collapsing", "China is bad at this", "China is bad at that", "Chinese people are terrible"... and I see all this and I'm like "how?"
@@cashewnuttel9054Really? Cause all I see is how "China will take over the world", "West US collapsing", "Dedollarization", "China best infrastructure" and all that.
@@cashewnuttel9054 Jealousy is ugly
These trains are freaking me out. From Hamburg to Munich is about 800km by car and you need AT LEAST six hours by train for the distance. Travelling 1300km in four hours by train is mind blowing. And i expect the trains are on time in China compared to Germany 😂
sure but no one is on them
@@liestricks Copium bro, cope. Like, have u seen their station at Chinese New Year?
@@NightPhoenix.Y like 700k in one day.
@@NightPhoenix.Y Ironic advice from some one how got triggered. And thats for regular trains. Not that a few peak days would not make it a waste of money
@@liestricks Who said making money is the objective? Idk about you but providing good transport has always seemed to be their main objective (as it should be) to me.
but keep coping I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What a delightful change of pace. More upbeat vids, please.
Got to admit they have way more technology then we do in Canada its crazy
Thanks Simon for the 3 gorges damm video on the main channel! Did a essay on it and passed !
ok, Simon is the exception to the rule but otherwise, DO NOT use CZcams as a source..
Just like wikipedia, there is no reliable peer review to back up any claims made..
in other words, i cant trust "Dr. Frank Einstein" to be an actual phd..
Congrats!!!
judging by the comments, it looks S.P got all up in someone's feelings......ahhhhh.😥😥
Love your vids man! I have noticed though that the background music is often just slightly too loud in comparison to your voice, which sucks because you have an amazing voice!!! 😍
38000km of high speed rail in China costs $300bn. 1 line in the UK stretching just 100km is taking 20 years to build and costing over $160bn. Wonder which government is stealing money from their citizens to line their own pockets?
China. You might want to look up how many Chinese politicians are imprisoned due to embezzling vast sums of money. Also, when you pay your workers poverty wages, don't give a shit about stealing the land, and have safety standards that are in most cases dubious (have a read on the many tofu dreg projects), it's very easy to build things cheaply.
And the 100km in the UK is HS1, the rail tunnel link from London. HS2 adds somewhere around 300km more.
Given the recent bri*ish Prime Minister was outlasted by a vegetable, and the fact that almost all high ranking Chinese leaders have Phds in the sciences and arts instead of a political background, Id say the country that actively decides to jelly the eels of the river Themes.
@@NightPhoenix.Y not one of the senior members of the CCP has a doctorate in anything like that, they all have degrees in law, economics, and politics.
@@EvilGav No no I'm quite sure they have a few in agriculture and engineering. And many others in other fields.
And Law and economics are part of the sciences buddy, what I was excluding was politics, just because they have a political career doesn't mean they spent years in poli school.
@@NightPhoenix.Y Fake Phds dont count for much.
Finally, something positive about China amid the incessant anti China rhetorics.
And it must be said that any national level projects done by China...is by definition, a megaproject.
Video idea! 5 mega projects that finished under budget 🤔
I don't think there are 5 that exist!
Yeah no such thing lol
Any project has three main elements - scope, time-scale, budget. You can at best only ever fix 2 of them. Most mega-projects have massive scope creep and usually miss their deadline, all of which means it's not possible to hit a budget.
Nd these 5 are probably the same one's on this list
Great to see a positive view of china for a change. Very interesting and informative.
i mean ofc china has some good things. the problem is that it being a corrupt dictatorship the average life is kinda shitty compared to most other places and I say that as an argentinian that while country is poor, healthy food is cheaper that processed one, water and air are clean and we can insult public officials all day without any fear.
and this is coming from someone whose country mostly hates the guts of the US. chine would be one of the last places i would move to outside of Africa ofc. not because ideology but because i not from Chinese born friends how bad health quality is over there, in air, water, food contamination.
包括目前的抢劫案
too rare
positive views are too rare…
I would wait to include the Beijing to Shanghai maglev in a video about successful mega projects because having it built and running by 2030 is pretty unlikely.
That really is a hyper loop without the pods
china's track record for astronomically absurd projects are next to a 100% success rate, unless some catastrophic delays, I think the railway will be built in that time
For a moment consider those workers who built these mega constructions.
I wonder how hard it was for Simon to say "positivity" ? 😂
The tech that goes into hsr and maglev trains is really impressive, but those speeds scare me..
they are safer than the 50mph american trains.
Megaprojects uploading on side projects. Makes sense
Maybe Simon's channels have become self-aware and are beginning to merge into one ginormous Gigachannel 🤖
It's been like this for while already, let our man cook.
Great video as always Simon, kudos to you and your team!
Now then, time to grab popcorn and enjoy comment section devolve into east vs. west madhouse :D
I'd love to see a video here or on Today I Found Out about L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seinne) and her death mask being used as the face of the CPR mannequins worldwide. A woman who went from drowning and being forgotten in death to being the face of saving countless lives, many from drowning.
As water scarcity gets worse, i think we will multiple water pipelines getting constructed. As the climate changes, flood prone and drought prone areas are getting more extreme so it could be mutually beneficial in some places. I also think that as water runs out in certain areas the increase in value will justify the construction costs for water pipelines
The thing about rail is the US focus is on freight. I would like to see the value of moving goods instead of people.
The efficiency of China's railway freight transportation is several orders of magnitude higher than that of the US... Delivering parcels anywhere within two days, spanning the distance from London to Moscow. This has dealt a crippling blow to China's malls and retail industry due to online shopping
One important thing to note is that you can’t crash a train into a skyscraper
Keep your favorite condiment handy Simon. I've heard some scientists say that the changes to the geography at & above the 3 gorges dam could cause some mega-earthquakes. You may need to eat your words...
Cope.
breathe son
Sacrifices had to be made in order to accommodate and satisfy everyone's needs.
Maglev hyperloop 😮 that sucks
I could've never imagined that this day would come but I'm very happy.
"A learned person only cares about facts". Thank you Mr. Whistler.
Why isn't this on the mega projects channel? it literally has Megaprojects in the title...
The Great Leap Forward has entered the chat….
You forget Chinese Expressway System or Chinese Motorway system, They only started on 1988 and by 2024 now to 114,000 Miles ot 185,000 km, They add and build 5,000-10,000 km new expressway every year since 2000
Thanks simon for bringing this information other vloggers saying china is now facing an massive collapse it's unbelievable I don't think would be easy collapse for a nation giant in terms of economy
0:55-0:57
There is a first time for everything, I suppose.
5 megaprojects but not posted on megaprojects?
12:30 Vacuum sealed tunnels 🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼😂😂😂 Hyperloop🤣🤦🏼🤣🤦🏼🤣
You got the best pictures of Shenzhen 😂
Ah, my personal favorite business casual look. Throw a jacket over a tee-shirt and yoga pants 😅 jk. Looking good fact boy.
I started video at
"no bottom paaarp" 😂
Gotta love those one-party states ! !Get things done !
Yes indeed! Things run pretty smoothly when no-one argues
Better than nothing happened and live in poverty forever
Oh and the Wolf amendment needs to be done away with.
Wolf amendment is coin up by western propaganda, you want to see the real Wolf amendment look at Usa /Nasa " Wolf amendment " is to ban china from joint
you so dumb
Do they really ship goods, and not only people, by high speed rail?
Not sure how regular of an occurrence it is, but around major holidays like singles day, online retailers in China have posted about shipping goods by high speed train.
cargo and passenger train are not the same, use ur head
@@jetli740 Meant the rail obviously
Did they find out Hu Flung Poo?
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A British man talking about China calculating with U.S. currency.
Yeah.... the Three Gorges Dam is a high-priority target of the Taiwanese military.
After that, Taiwan would be a nuclear wasteland.
"5 Successful Chinese Megaprojects"
I'm surprised you couldn't fit this into a 60 second short video.
More positive energy for chine please
colorful socks, please 🙂
Megaprojects on sideprojects? I'm confused.
You meant: 1. Irak 2. Vietnam 3. Syria 4. Libya 5. Afghanistan ?
That dam could power my entire country.
He chooses what he reads.
why does this sound like a promo video from the US? Maybe because it sounds also lika a promo for china?
Don’t read so much into it lol. He’s just making content and it was interesting. Didn’t know they had a working mag lift. That’s crazy.
Immediately after the reservoir was first filled, around 80 hairline cracks were observed in the dam's structure. Still, an experts group gave the Three Gorges project overall a good-quality rating. The 163,000 concrete units all passed quality testing, with normal deformation within design limits.
All dams crack
Hor$eShit! China MUST FALL!!! PERIOD!
What expert group is that
No dam this large has been made before, so some cracking is probably an unfortunate but inescapable side-effect. The key is that any deformation remains within design limits, and that the cracks were noticed and recorded.
It’s a gravity dam not an arc dam, which means it’s the weight of the dam not the structural tension of the dam that’s holding it in place.
太阳从西边出来了
400 sq miles? You sure?
All Chinese, & or every Chinese project’s a mega successful!
#SafetyShouldntBeASecretServiceReservedExclusivelyForThePresidentCelebritiesRoyaltyAndOrTheChinese
#AntColonies
Well... Shit. I better start learning Chinese then.
🧐 The infrastructure project "The bee honeycomb model of the conglomerates" Will Solve the Problem 🐝. There is no other way. Archimedes XXI century 😇.
Ya gotta admit ... democracy is lovely and I cant imagine living without freedoms and choice, but ... when ya just have to get stuff done; dams built, city subway systems finished, high speed rail installed, and water systems dropped in ... ya really cant beat the communist system that just rolls in, points a finger and says "that way" ... and its just done.
Western countries are forced to deal with massive environmental studies, cultural and people delays and a ton of way too much red tape.
Not saying I dont enjoy my freedoms, but we have to be impressed in how they just get. stuff. done.
I have to admit you are right, they have enviromental study before
dumping 25000 drumb of toxic DDT just off southern California coast near Catalina Island. must be very enviromental friendly
search that...
"Thousands of barrels of suspected toxic DDT found dumped in California ocean"
Anyone ever heard of the river dolphin that was driven to extinction by the building of the Three Gorge Dam! Cite:Last Chance to See-D. Adams
Why are western space agencies not allowed to cooperate with China? What happened, exactly...
Wonder how many of these commenters have bothered visiting China?
Man most of these people haven’t even seen an ocean or boarded a plane in person but spew anti china rhetoric like they are big brother. 😂
Why visit a place when there's so many stale old stereotypes they can parrot instead.... 😐
They probably rarely leave their town...
I did, even went to three gorges dam and took a cruise from there to Chongqing. Spent time in Beijing, Tianjin, Xi'an, and Hong Kong. Watched them bulldoze peoples homes to build the 2008 olympic stadium. Lovely place.
@@EvilGav Reminds me of Florida. Here they use eminent domain to seize and bulldoze the homes of low income black and hispanic residents so they can add "green space" around the roads to block the view and hide the rest of the low income neighborhoods. It makes it so much easier to sell trips to all the touristy spots to the rich folks when they can't see the poor folks. Lovely place.
So much copium in the comments
I will be watching the live feeds from china's space station with popcorn and beer. It'll be like Oxygen Not Included, but IRL. XD
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China, positively, for once.
That’s because china doesn’t think passed can we to answer should we.
Simon, why is your video on Chinese influence on the Russian Ukraine war private 👀?
You must talk negative of china
American politicians bitch about infrastructure snd how China is a threat, but they don't fix the problems.
Seeing this video is scary
It's nice to talk about all these projects being super eco friendly and people being re-housed in at least equivalent habitations with a cash compensation on top but, China being China, I'd be curious to see the disparity between what they've said to please the media and what actually happened...
The people were not rehoused equally it was a brutal move and they did not compensate everyone. Please do do actual research on the dam and don’t just assume that he’s done his research. His version is the version the Chinese government says and it keeps the comment section calm. The people who were relocated for the building of the three gorges dsm were not treated well and they currently use that dam to flood other parts of China currently so Beijing doesn’t flood.
I cannot believe this your saying that the Chinese government! The CCP moved people painlessly during some of these Megaprojects. Like what a load of bs you can do research and know that’s a lie. This a government that follows the teachings of Mao Zedong one of the worst humans in history. Maybe you didn’t want the video to be divisive but you did the free world and the Chinese people a disservice and helped The CCP.
Well yeah that's basically what I assumed and why I made this comment x) @@DauthEldrvaria
So as A Chinese I can tell you that the gov is really doing things for its people and making good infrastructure for us.
All the things here in the video are true and effective
@@DauthEldrvaria? seriously?
the three gorge dam is even not in Hebei! it’s in he middle of China dude!
so far*
😂 i just can laugh on this
THEN LAUGH, HAHAHAHAHAHAH! HASO BHAI HASO!!
Nice video Mr Simon! It's good to hear about the success stories every now and again. This was nice👍
5 of 5,000, not bad China 😂😅😂😅😂😅😂
Considering by 2030 China will overtake US as largest economy. Yeah, definitely not bad. It's ok to settle for 2nd place soon Yankee
This video may very well not age well ;)
They are already decades old. China does a lot of shoddy infrastructure but some of it gets it right. The more visible a project is the less corruption (not zero though, never zero). It's the small bridges, apartment buildings, etc. that get concrete that's as strong as cardboard paper, and other issues.
The big issue for these in the future will be when they need maintenance, will proper reports and upkeep be done like any structure should get? Every structure ages. Or will managers try to kick the can down the road to look good during their time there.
@@MoriguTheDeadThe corruption part is true for any nation. No big construction project, anywhere, gets done without any corruption. It's unavoidable, since there's always somebody who's too greedy.
Agreed
The 3g dam is already falling apart
@@marktg98 That's true but China is a bit different in how corruption works than the west. After they 'sold' off the state industries in the move to a semi-capitalist economy they often ended in the hands of friends of the government. That's not that unusual, you see that in Venezuela's brief flirtation with capitalism when assets were looted and then mismanaged. But, China didn't just sell off some, they kept some as state industries and some of the ones they sold are only 'thinly' privately owned with heavy restrictions on how they operate.
It's the semi-state and 'thinly' private companies that add a lot of chaos. What that creates is a massive entanglement of special interests of old rich families that bought those companies, new rich people who frequently cheated their way to wealth by shoddy construction, and the officials both groups have cultivated (old families by planting family in/buying, new rich by outright buying).
A good non construction example was the 2008 Chinese milk scandal. It wasn't just one company faking their tests and contaminating milk. Over 20 other separate companies were doing it, and similar things, and more than just milk. In the west you'd expect it would be corruption with a government tester, or with a company, but in China it becomes a web of companies due to the above relationships.
"Will travel between Shanghai and Beijing in vacuum sealed tunnels", says Simon, who obviously doesn't know a thing about vacuum engineering. No such described vacuum tunnel is ever going to be built. It's utter nonsense.
😂. You're jealous
@@guens01 No, I'm a vacuum engineer.
Love the enthusiasm!
The three gorges dam is never compared to the pyramids when conspiracy theorists talk about modern capability, I wonder why? lol
check out all the buildings falling down in China in just the past couple of weeks. including a gym that killed a teenage volleyball team
Something you don't hear a whole lot of about the gymnasium collapse a few days ago... the building was built in 1997. Not even 30 years old
so 1 building fall down you applied to whole country? wow does your brain even working?
how about Surfside collapse killing 98ppl, do you applied that to the whole of usa? your ignorance is off the chart
China is a country has 1.4b people and a half of the highest buildings on this planet. if entire China has no building to fall down is much more scary to be honest. especially the wooden house in US has no chance to compare.
@@louiswu6300 my children didn't go to bed hungry tonight. Most of the Chinese population can not say the same. Tall buildings don't matter when they fall apart all the time... you can't hide... China is junk.
There are some serious question marks over the ongoing structural viability of the Three Gorges Dam and the High-Speed Train network has been knobbled by poor track construction.
The most successful Chinese megaproject is their propaganda, And it's not very good...
What other country has done HSR better on nearly the same scale? There are likely to be some issues regardless of which country is implementing it, but on balance Chinese high speed rail is a great achievement.
@@thomasstack4119 I have several decades of experience in rail construction, please tell me more about your background as a keyboard warrior.
@@JohnH1 in the USA? If so it’s understandable you wouldn’t be familiar with HSR.
@@JohnH1 also please do tell me more about how every project you’ve ever worked on has worked out perfectly with no kinks to work out when first put into service. I grew up around Boston and saw first hand how many issues the Big Dig had. In the long run it was still absolutely worth the investment of time and money. Few major infrastructure projects go seamlessly, it’s par for the course.
Metric!
Factboy's social credit score just went up
It amazes me how the infrastructure of America fails to compare to that of other countries
A project which costs China $37 billion is still only about $26 per person
The same amount the UK spent during the pandemic on a test and trace system that didn't even work.
It is strange to see a video so positive about China from this channel….I can’t help but picture what’s going on offscreen. Simon, show more ankle if you need rescuing!
Lmao he just talks the truth
Wow I did not expect the dam to make this list! It was built so poorly that now about 20 years after it opened you can see the erosion of the dam FROM SPACE! compare satellite photos of it after completion and now, and the difference is visible.
Hey Simon… If you love China so much, why don’t you marry it?
I bet Musk is jelly that China figured out a Hyperloop that actually works 😂
I'm really struggling to understand why that was even mentioned in this video.
No they haven't. It is just as stupid as Musk project.
The failure of the hyperloop is to be blamed on the major shithole that it is located in and the ignorant morons that vote there and run the place. You can figure that out.
Hyperloops are a waste of money, even when someone finally finds a way to bring them into reality, they aren't cost affective.
What China has is already pretty good enough.
And here I thought Simon just hated us Chinese people.
I guess dead bodies help concrete construction
3 gorges damn is failing and hasn't run at max capacity
Citation needed
To think that we gave that country 3 times the cost of the 3 gorges dam.
I know right.... Imagine if we paid our financial obligation to them in full though
@@CTP909 We have zero financial obligations to them. It’s all supposed to be humanitarian.
@@CTP909 fr fr this works just as well with a dept, but Joseph Husein Biden is too slow brain to get rid of dept.
Thr 3G dam sure dried up the Mekong quite a bit
They don't even have the same source nor share tributaries 😂
Eco friendly and biodiversity are wonderful ‘ green’ words, yet the huge ships taking Australian coal and gas back to China tell a different story
What story does it tell? Australia is getting rich.
While these megaprojects are nonetheless amazing achievements, I would be cautious when interpreting the estimated costs as - this being China - it often involves state-owned enterprises interacting with other state-owned enterprises and so there are many ways to manipulate the figures. For instance, the construction company could purchase building materials from a supplier that agrees to sell to them at a loss while the energy supplied could be cheap or even free. Meanwhile, losses by the energy company and raw materials suppliers could then be offset by government subsidies or charging other customers (once again, often state-owned enterprises) higher prices. All of which then leads to the construction project seemingly coming in at a lower price tag than it would otherwise have been had it been independent, profit-driven companies interacting with one another and/or the state.
That is true, but the Chinese government could just lie about the cost if they wanted to make it look good. On the other hand, by having state-owned companies working with and compensating each other for costs in other ways, it's possible they could end up with a genuinely cheaper cost nonetheless. Profit-driven companies are only concerned with their own profit, but everyone trying to maximise their own profits at the costs of other businesses (and their own employees) doesn't mean a healthier economic system (although I'm not comparing specific countries here).
If state-run companies settle for lower profits and work more cooperatively with businesses they would be usually competing with (or being compensated by non-standard payment, like energy benefits), then the cost can be lowered without those involved running into losses. I'm not saying that's what's actually happening irl, but without looking at the Chinese government's books, you really don't know how they are going to organise it or screw it up. And they have issues with a lack of transparency.
@@13minutestomidnight... Govt construction firms are awful, can't admit mistakes so cover up.. private construction companies are big and last decades, they know their misconduct can make others not want to hire them or partner with them. China heck maybe spends 2x as much as France per km of rail if the books were honest. So let's not have speeches how govt is great at stuff, history shows overall the opposite. US has planes no need for fast trains, Russia same, it's weird people act like going third as fast and taking up huge lines of land is progress. China famously to save time built their high speed stations at edge of towns, officials wanted to build fast even if sucks for people....
@@mostlyguesses8385that’s a long winded way of saying you don’t understand that greenhouse gas emissions (which are currently all but inevitable with air travel) are a problem.
Cuz in your country you import almost everything overseas while the Chinese almost built everything at home.
@@mostlyguesses8385 :_" private construction companies are big and last decades, they know their misconduct can make others not want to hire them or partner with them"_ *