High hopes for China’s Greater Bay Area, but integrating 11 cities will pose challenges
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China is pushing ahead with a grand plan to merge 11 cities in the Pearl River Delta into one mega economic and business hub. It's called the Greater Bay Area, with each city playing its own unique role as in this economic powerhouse. But integrating all 11 cities into a megalopolis comes with a slew of challenges.
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This is what a government should be, forward planning!
Something that Western governments lacks and forgot
G M i Agreeeee
it's hard to do that in the west due to how democracy works it only makes sense for leaders to focus on their current term, which is typically 5 years or shorter.
@@JewTube001 Legal corruption such as lobbying is the problem. The gov't don't work for the population anymore but just the minority interest groups.
This is a rare forward-looking report in the South China Morning Post, and it is very constructive.
China is going to destroy these cities in the coming big war. China just can't help being too aggressive and hostile to other countries, instead of focusing on getting bigger and greater.
@@___Anakin.Skywalker it's a pity you wish death and destruction on such a prosperous region. then again you are darth vader.
@@JewTube001 what are you saying
@@JewTube001 read to understand, because what you accused him of doing isn't what he is doing.
he didn't wish them bad but rather saying that china has been too aggressive and that might cause war
Zhaoqing. A beautiful, clean and friendly city. I spent 11 years teaching at a school there. It has been trying for years to be classed as a tier one city in Guangdong but kept failing. Maybe being part of the G.B.A will help it .
Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Macao, etc, too many strong cities in GBA. Except Shenzhen, other cities are hard to lead in Guangdong.
This is beautiful. I wish them further success.
I envy China for their development….India is still busy with politics of religion….instead of focusing on development
I just learned this a day ago: India’s bullet train faces 5-year delay: High costs, Japan firms not so keen.
The Indian Express has learnt that the Railways now expects the project to be commissioned fully by October 2028, instead of the original timeline of December 2023.
India at least doesn’t worry about guns.
Just as in Malaysia. We still focus on religion and race and yet nothing much on development plan. The politics play racial card and separate us to gain their seat in control.
@@viktortan8326 As Indonesian... we here you. We're on the same boat. 😅
Comparison is not valid at all. China is one party state without free media and global internet. India is multi party state with free Internet.
This is like a mother having 4 children. And she wants the 4 of them to get along and cooperates, but each sibling have its own personally and way of doing things. Even if the mother have hope and ambition, the success of the project will depends on how well the siblings will behave and cooperates with each other.
... or it's like a country with 4 successful cities and the government wants them to get along and cooperate, but each city has its own personality and methods. Even if the government has its own hopes and ambitions, the success of the depends on how well the cities cooperate with each other.
@@Otter-Destruction that's litteraly the whole metaphor here
@@zve6 yeah exactly my point, the concept is so simple you don't need an analogy to dumb it down for people.
😂，but you forgot to mention about how China parents are doing their parenting job lol
I wouldn’t worry too much about if the don’t behave maturely a bit as long as I still remember about my childhood.
that's why it need efficient regulations to simplify things, get rid of overlap regulations.
"CIA bots and India keyboard warriors such a deadly combos"- Mao
They will swarn all over Chinese news, and it's inevitable
Let’s not stoop down to the level of an American internet user and start calling everyone a bot whenever their reality is broken.
@@imadeanaccounttocomment7800 They have literal bots lol
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@@jaysingh3915 USA made virus not by china. no any research prove on it. We love them as a human being.
@@jaimahakaljainepal3658 China made the virus and Oli was a side effect of that
@@Santoshpbagalkot1 USA made virus and modi is side affects of that in Asia. India is main gate for westerner.
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The difference between these cities can be it's weakness or its biggest advantage over other cities. Great innovation might sprout naturally with these challenging environment.
Seeing the development in china, it makes me question my democratic government 😔😔
Not a democratic, but liberals
China is way more democratic that many liberal democracies anyways, after all, It's a people's republic.
Atleast you can question the gov. Making statements like these in china will fetch you 10 years in prison.
@T123 Facts
Same here, then I realized that democracy isnt a silver bullet
That's not a future megapolis, it's rather a megalopolis or megaregion.
I only know one GBA, Game Boy Advance
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Imagine if China is a democratic country, can they organize the differences as smoothly as nowadays? No wonder even Socrates hated democracy.
You put idiots and democracy, it's a mess. However, when smart people are together acting democratically, results are astounding.
Japan is democratic, as well as Germany. I wonder how they've turned out...
@Phyrozz They are not as diverse as China.
@@Phyrozz India is the largest democracy. How does it turn out?
@@firefly4784 Thats the keypoint imo. China has ALOT of different ethnicies and cultures. Im pretty sure that any Democratic way like in the US or here in germany would insanely crumble in China. It just doesnt work and people are fine with it there.
Look at the population and GDP figures and you begin to see who is truly wealthy.
They are still getting wealthier. Congrats to them.
Like how the US is currently jacking up their GDP number with artificial inflation.
Every project has some problems. No risk no gain but the dynamics and rewards of integration of the Greater Bay area will drive the process and people will take advantage of the opportunities created,
Isn't SCMP suppose to play horror music whenever talking about China? What's with the sudden tone change?
Maybe bots like you paid them or threatened to detain them? Maybe
Their HQ in Hong Kong maybe they are afraid of the new law hahaha
Their HQ in HK has already been taken over bruh.
@@majesticslav9563 That's Apple Daily not SCMP
China's poorest village is more developed than my richest indian city .
China richest city Hong Kong has a gdp of 407 billion while india richest city mumbai has gdp of 300 billion
Your statistics are wrong and inaccurate, pls correct them and use 2021 data
@@bhagatrishit486 Hong Kong ranked 6th in China's highest GDP city, pls use 2021 data
@@bhagatrishit486 china gdp 17 trillion dollars ind 3 trillion.... Have some shame before writing
@@eongpinlee I used the 2020 ccp census for it , so accurately my data is correct
India already has all the recipes for success. It's the best time to be alive
China is playing chess and the world is playing checkers. Watching the Hing Kong people walk in in blonde wigs is SO EMBARRASSING to them smh
Incorrect... Chinese playing Weiqi, while rest of world only playing chess
@@irritatedanglosaxon1705 incorrect. The Chinese are playing 3d weiqi.
Lawyers or what so over, look like lambs to me with those wigs placed by their colonial master
@@MrHuofeng They're judges. The wigs are silly, but the British legacy of "common law" is ultimately why Hong Kong and Singapore are the preferred locations for international arbitration in Asia. International contracts involving companies in Asia almost always specify that arbitration will happen in Hong Kong or Singapore, rather than mainland China, Japan, or South Korea.
And with China's growing influence over Hong Kong, more and more companies are excluding Hong Kong from legal contracts and shifting to Singapore instead.
@@irritatedanglosaxon1705 now US is playing Wuziqi against China.
This sounds right. I've imagined that real communism isn't about centralized control, but about local autonomy. If there's too much power in any specific level, the needs of the locality and entire nation won't be met. There must be some balance between individual autonomy and coordination between states.
Those cities look fantastic too.
Well, real communism means no governments at all, and China hasn't practiced communism
for decades, so.... Anyway, best wishes to the Greater Bay Area.
In real communism, the community owns the means of production.
China is so centralized with politic and state owned economy, I really don’t think any individual in China will wish to stay in the country just to contribute to CCP.
real communism doesn't exist.
@@igibon8 most Chinese are satisfied with the CCP. The country is better off than it's ever been
to produce a bigger cake so everyone has a share
Ekkk, might have to immigrate back to China after this one
Workers living in one city where cost of living is cheaper & working in another is already happening in the GBA. While staying in BP International Hotel #bpih in Hong Kong, a worker there told me she lived in Shenzhen & rode the high speed rail from Shenzhen to work in HK.
Correct. Also every day in the morning you see hundreds of little kids crossing the border at LoWu or LokMaChow from Shenzhen complete in their school uniforms and backpacks just to got to school in HK. And at late afternoon they all cross the border again to go home in SZ
literally, in chinese school, we learned about how people would live in shenzhen and then drive to work in hong kong
I hope this works, sounds like great times are ahead
this is so awesome.
Impressive
Great !!!👏🇹🇩♥️
First switch to the right hand traffic system.
Amazing
Greater Bay Area? I call it Coruscant. ;)
In my experience, when 2 cities are under 200km apart, people can drive in under 2 hours between them, and then are more happy to do so. I think the cities here are further apart.
China's HSR trains can cover 200 kms in like 30-40 minutes.
The GBA is basically the size of a medium to large country.
i dont know how big it is compared to my country, but the population is slightly higher than here in germany.
Meanwhile in my so called democratic country, corruption is rampant and people are dying of hunger every day.
India?
Combined gdp of 1.7 trillion? That’s less than Tokyo and New York
that's like comparing Shanghai with Osaka...
also they compared an area as big as the Netherlands to San Francisco... like bruh I get it you're optimistic but that's a bit too optimistic
GDP Nominal, not real GDP, their real GDP would be somewhere around $4 trillion.
Of course there will be challenges. But I see more opporunities than challenges.
This isntraight up Dreed universe. Can't wait!
Keep rising China, salute from comrade in usa
You can't completely integrate cities with completely different political and social systems. A project like this naturally means that Hong Kong will lose its special status altogether.
not necessarly. The problem is that HK and macau have their own legal systems, passports, currencys. Some of those needs to be abolished to make it easier to drive to other citys. One currency and passport should be the norm.
@@semiramisubw4864 There will undoubtedly be civil unrest. Assimilation inevitably erodes culture and autonomy, and many Hong Kongers don't want that.
That's the plan... due to HK 2019 demonstration I as(Chinese govt) would weaken HK and make a better state richer to reduce their......
Anyway it can work the Chinese people seem to go along well with each other ...which is beautiful
This isn’t really a grand plan but rather an overview of the GBA with different strengths/ characteristics. Lots of new architecture and infrastructure but what about the people who live there, what do they want? Do the people there want a greater say in how their super-metropolis is run? Does the government respect their differences of opinion?
This vision requires great leadership and I support this fully. There are a number of GBA around the world but by definition China's GBA will be the biggest in the world. Leadership needs to bring business incentives in the key GBA areas. The quality of life in the GBA is getting better and better. I hope they get there within 5 years but I see great improvements already and we should push more to get the China GBA the best in the world!!!
Map of the GBA looks like a dog running 😂
Watch House of Cards. See how politics and ‘democracy’ really works in America. Neither country is perfect, but both countries are equally meritorious. So stop putting China down. Besides, China just keeps doing its own thing while the two parties 吃ear each other apart in America.
The situation isn’t great in America, but one man having almost complete control over a country for No term limits isn’t ideal either.
But I still wish that the Chinese government do its best in realizing that it's governing a country that rules over NON-CHINESE people. A lot of people's complaints about China's government and progress are not about the progress itself but what it will do with that power. I am HOPING that it will not use its power to completely homogenize its borders by forcefully (even passively) assimilating its minorities, then invading its territorial claims, and finally ignoring international laws like universal human rights and maritime borders just because it's doing its "own thing". Because if China's "own thing" is stepping over people and acting like it's above morality, then the Chinese government is a bunch of horrible and evil people.
Worst democracy is trillion times better than the best autocracy
Put this in mind
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@@rvat2003 yes I agree
Can’t you choose anybody who can make pronunciation with more clarity? Chinese pinyin and English?
CIA bots incoming
Exciting
Nice from indonesia
Macao is small fish,
As an european I find reports like this on China's progress fascinating. I hope that in the future they progress as well in terms of freedom. For the moment, I can only be amazed by their continuous achievements and the ignorance of the biggest part of the western world about them.
actually. The Chinese are very free.
Nacho
The 100 most powerful people in China.
%97 is the bottom of the poor in China.
Premier of China. Li Keqiang.
I used to be a young student. Farmed in the countryside.
Jiang Zemin is a car repair worker.
Zhu Rongji is an orphan.
Xi Jinping's father is the governor.
But Xi Jinping himself has also built biogas digesters for farmers in mountain villages for 8 years. Then it took more than 40 years to get to today step by step.
@@marioferreira7605
You go to Xinjiang once. If you find any Uighurs feel any hostility. .
I will compensate you ten times for the funds you go to Xinjiang.
@@marioferreira7605
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Thank you for the honesty. So the GBA has 8 times the population but only worth 2 times the GDP, of the San Francisco Bay area.
Well, yes. China is still kinda a developing country and when the GBA is assembled they hope the innovation etc skyrocket like it did when Shenzen was called out a SEZ and than exploded. We will see how it works out
We should also consider PP though. If we adjust for purchasing power, then it has 10.75× (not sure how you got 8× population?) the population and 2.8× the GDP.
this literally new way to share political power between regional govts. I doubt any western country has ability to have that type of nuance.
Game Boy Advance?
GBA sound like an amino acid or smth. Better to call it "Pearl city"
I asked my friend what it's like living in China. All he said was "Can't complain".
Well its safe so why complain?
@@VoidSpace9 no where is safe
Cant complain coz nothing to complain, Chinese is so busy, why they need to reply our complaints?
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chiclayo 🇵🇪
Wow China is the most powerful and richest country in the world
Respect and love from your neighbour Philippines 🥰
I’m not sure about that most powerful but yeah i guess
yeah they even occupying our west philippine sea
Just name it the Tang area
Real
Hope EVERGRANDE can pay back it employee, customer, bond holder back.
megalopolis bentuk dari gak meratanya ekonomi
Jiayou
So you don't talk about benefits, advantages but just a challenge?? Oh sure chinese cities only brings challenge all the benefits brings US cities right?
Clearly you don't understand English
.if SF had 86 million people, it would be 9 trillion GDP
Calling it the Greater Bay Area isn't suddenly going to make it another Bay area like Silicon Valley+ San Francisco.
Especially when China has closed itself off to the world with no signs of ending zero COVID. China has a lot of talent but growing the number 1 tech hub in the world will be significantly harder with less foreign talent - look how international ASML is.
China is already number 1 in the world about the science and technology.
@@MrVitconst Yeah i'd rather be able to say whatever I want without being arrested than be surveilled by "number 1" technology lol. Why can't you be number 1 in science & tech, AND number 1 in human rights? In the western world you don't get murdered or arrested for criticizing the government.
The mere fact that this comment will get censored says everyting that's wrong with how the CCP treats freedom of speech and informatino.
Hi
Wait untill Taiwan is included into the GBA.
Love you china from USA
@@f14tomcat46 love u china from USA NY
@@f14tomcat46 love u china from USA Ny
@@f14tomcat46 people named "muhammad" always pointing other as enemy huh? Just let there be peace even to the one that hate you bro. I guess people like you is the reason world never enjoy peace
GBA = Gameboy Advanced
watching that hong kong court is so weird. grown men walking around with powdered wigs. they need to stop playing dress up.
Tofu project
GBA : Game Boy Advance
Sorry folks it was already here ahah
Guangzhou should be positioned before Shenzhen when you present these cities, that's a sensitive and policital question.
Guangdong Republic
WelXcome to new Soviet
Looking at the Greater Bay development, the future is promising and bright. Sadly, Taiwan is missing all the benefits of her mother land's qualitydevelopment. Should Taiwan unify with China, one can envision that Taiwan and Fijian could be the Jewel of Eastern China area.
Are you from Taiwan?
@@har5814 if I am from Taiwan, I would weigh the options either to challenges China that lead to uncertainty or embrace China where the centre of growth is underway and a society that far more developed than the west. The choice is obvious.
Taiwan has been China's treasure island for decades already, been way ahead of the mainland in development and social security for her citizens. They still have a very strong grip over the world's supply of computer chips.
@@cbrtdgh4210Not for long. US with INTEL had started their ambition project with target by 2026 to have chips production capabilities that surpass both TSCM and Samsung.
I heard there's a Little Taipei town in Jiangsu province.
Leave Hong Kong alone...
all tofu buildings.
大家好
Hello
么么哒
Keep it up China
O yeah those buildings that they stop working on them o yeah or the one that fell ok maybe they should waist the money on how to help people or the world
China should dismantle that system in Hong Kong and Macao. That is just one China and that should bee one system in whole china.
SCMP is a Western media HQ in HK. SCMP’s heritage is British, or British Colonialism to be exact. Its new mission is to salvage, celebrate, and promote British interest in HK after HK’s return to China. During the past two decades , China has developed mega cities near and surround area of HK and these new mega cities have surpassed HK’s economic importance. For examples: Shenzhen and Guangzhou had surpassed HK economic attainment several years ago. Here, SCMP portrays HK as a vital component of GBA when in fact HK has seen its better days. SCMP is praising HK as HK practices certain British rituals and peculiar customers. Essentially, SCMP is soft-selling the propaganda that British way is better than the Chinese way.
There is no British influence in Hong Kong, Hong King is irrelevant to Britian , its 2021
Hong Kong has been a SAR of China for decade's
clearly you don't read SCMP recently.
@@cbrtdgh4210 ::: I have. And after viewing another SCMP video I am not dissuaded that SCMP is a propaganda media.
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I believe San Franciso Bay Area still did well than South China's Greater Bay Area in terms of GDP per capita:
$19767 USD or US$19.7K (China's Greater Bay Area (Including Hong Kong and Macao))
$125000 USD or US$125K (San Franciso Bay Area)
So, in GDP / Population, the numbers are shown. Therefore, I still think San Franciso Bay Area is better, with multiple tech companies located there.
They are saying in absolute numbers, not in a per capita basis. Those macro economic figures are important to evaluate the business worthness of the area. For the individuals living there it may not be the same thing, however.
Unfortunately, they never mentioned per capita...
@@ROBLOXGamingDavid They did. They gave the population and the GDP, you just need to divide.
@@gteixeira ah ok
That just like saying wealth of US billionaire are Elon Musk or jeff Bezoz vs thousand chinese billionaire
I don't care !! We dont care
Then why you here get out
Then why you here get out
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Hope those "freedom fighters" in Hong Kong will keep themselves away from Greater Bay Area for the rest of their life. I'm pretty sure they will be envious of their decisions.
CCP loser
The Hong Kong rioters have been duking it out with the anti Asian hate campaigners in the Boston area and in London. Asian Americans say stay away from our campaigns we don't want trouble.
@@lorainejones41 Really? I'm from England, I haven't heard of this. Can you provide a source for the London incident?
@@lorainejones41 never supported these HK rioters, just a bunch of misinformed and easily brainwashed kids.. no different from your average liberal leftist in the US lol
So proud of what China has accomplished and so inspired by its vision...中国加油🇨🇳💪
"The greater bay area?? Keep dreaming." -San Francisco
GBA - GameBoy Advance
You need better narrator
In 40 years the village people become getto humanoids prisoners.
What is communism anyway?what’s the purpose of it?
It's purpose is to wage endless wars and establish 850 military bases. Oh wait...
Game Boy Advance
China become more amazing
And pls. Let go of uighors. Don't treat them as your slaves
Hang on... They're allowing Hong Kong's British based Legal system into the interior of China and not the other way round?! That's HUGE!
beacause hong kong legal system is very well constructed and is impartial, solid and is beneficial compared to the 99% conviction rate of mainland china and huge corruption. they don't want that
Sadly it's a lie, don't trust the CCP
@@anonymousthanks4718 evidence?
@@ggx8427 Source: trust me bro
It is to allow Hong Kong lawyers to practice mainland law in mainland, not to use Hong Kong law system in mainland.
大湾区👍🏻
pickle18
CCP bots
I was born and raised in Macau, never called the area other than the Pearl River Delta. Where this phrase "Greater Bay Area" comes from is beyond me. I guess the CCP can rename anything that's in China now...
Pearl River Delta specifies the bay's name while "Great Bay Area" specifies the region's name. There is a difference.
it's nothing new... Silicon Valley was never named as such before the tech development settled there.
Stop pretending to be chinese. lol
@NRG nah, 大湾区 should be translated to great bay area, dunno where this "greater" translation comes from.
Greater Bay Area includes the Pearl River Delta and the Bay that surrounds the coast of HK / Kowloon / Macau and Shenzhen...