Last month while I was in Hong Kong I travelled to Shenzhen to spend half a day to do two things. One was to get a AI translator that can do over 120 languages. It cost just £40 and can do translation from language A to B and/or reversely. The other was to visit Gangxia North station. This happened just after I spent 25 days touring 10 Chinese cities including Shanghai, Chengdu and Chongqing that has fantastic metro stations of their own. Gangxia North looks out of this world so I decided to see it with my own eye. Gangxia North station is indeed "the" station to see. That is the standard with which one can measure the others. I did spend nearly a full day to tour around the Shanghai metro system as it is the world's biggest. Chengdu is another one with many metro stations of outstanding beauty. To be candid I would say apart from the decorations there isn't much in each of the beautiful metro station in China. Each comprises some platforms where the metro trains pass and stop. Then there is a common hall where the passengers can walk from one line to another line and exit the station. The colorful decoration is just there to make the passengers to feel less stressful. None of the decorations, possibly with the exception of Gangxia, is expensive but each one is an artistic expression of its own, with a theme and can be impactful to new passengers using the line. Gangxia North is structurally designed to make good use of its large dimensions, as it has to house some four lines together, to provide an visually pleasing environment. Each metro line is fully enclosed by glass so the whole station can be kept remarkably clean. The rest is just the attention to details. Chinese metro stations are designed for large number of passengers so relative to the west they are enormous with plenty of space and facilities. My impression of the Chinese metro is that they are newer, more up to date, huge, faster, cleaner and most importantly more affordable. Typical ride is 2 to 4 yuan and that is £0.25 to £0.45 about 1/10 of what passengers in London or New York have to pay. It is noteworthy e-commerce is extensively used in China as I managed to go through every metro station in China with just a mobile phone.
Did you also know this metro station has underground shopping streets? One of them leads to another shopping area called One Avenue, which is connected to Link City, a bigger underground shopping street that connects all the downtown malls!
Trains and train stations in the uk not only old also not very clean. The worst is they often delay and sometimes cancel. Nightmare if you need to be somewhere punctually.
Same in Germany. Also very unfriendly train stuff who wake you up in a rude tone multiple times during one ride to manually check your ticket. Also, if you buy the wrong ticket (there are dozens of ticket types for the same route) you get fined heavily. If it happens several times and you are too poor to pay the fines, you will be jailed (many in jail because of this).
@@kimduong2332 Could be. Surely America can and will do better after they have worked through their "issues". All countries, of course, have them. America's though are playing out on a world internet stage. Perhaps every one will learn something.^
speechless about how pretty and CLEAN the stations are in China and getting a little depressed to think about our stations here at S.F and the money that our government spent on wars since 9/11 instead of spend that money here in the states.
Such infrastructure actually benefit more for people with lower income. Take my city as example, the cost of metro for tge ride from airport to my home is 8RMB, it's 200RMB if I take a cab.
As an American, we have it even worse than the Brits. I live in NYC and half of our train stations look post apocalyptic. The end result of nearly 80 years of disinvestment.
Jealousy can propel a person to do better which is good. But if Jealousy makes a person do evil things that is bad. The Hegemonic US is unfortunately in the 2nd category
Our metro stations in Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt, etc.) smell like piss, are crumbling, ugly, unsafe, with many delays and cancellations, have awful complicated pricing systems (dozens of different prices for the same route) and on top of all this, tickets are ridiculously overpriced even for shortest distances. Man I really miss the infrastructure and harmonious vibe of mainland China.
*_Hi guy, you don't need to be jealous beacuse you are 75% Chinese. You got the Chinese ID while I don't have it. I am a Chinese living in Hong Kong. I also cannot speak Mandarin as well as you._* 🤝🤝
What is so surprising (and shocking) is that it was in Britain (the U.K.) that trains and the railway system was first developed ahead of every other country in the world. One would think that the U.K. should have by now, the most modern, the most advanced trains ahead of anyone else. However, it seems that after making so many developments and advances in technology (firearms, the industrial revolution, shipping, the jet engine, modern medicine, etc, etc) the English sort of fell asleep at the wheel while dreaming of the old days.
Every generation gets lazier and more entitled from the last. When you have the mindset of being #1 for so long you don't see everyone else catching up or surpassing you. It happens everywhere, including China when they dismissed the newly arrival of European countries to their shores.
As a fellow Brit, living in China, I completely agree that its an amazing station. Its the closest station to where I teach. Commuted home daily from there, until I bought a car.
@TravelinChina They issue them twice a month here. Bought a BYD hybrid and got the green plate straight away. My wife has been waiting for a blue plate for years, so I just bought her a Geely Panda EV.
The station is massive! Everything there has the kind of futuristic design I would expect at Disneyland for a building housing some cool fantasy ride! Even the area at the end where people are just eating outside looks so nice and new!
No idea if our station is pretty, but 大梅沙 is fairly new and pretty big (coz we have loads of tourists during holidays 🤣) feel free to come spend time at the beachside. Pls avoid coming on weekends it’s 人山人海😂 enjoy your trip here in Shenzhen!
In addition to China’s subway station being very modern , huge , punctual , clean, able to manage large numbers of commuters- they are very safe AND look better than many airports in the West. There is no graffiti or vandalism so they are well protected and maintained. Finally , it’s rare to find rodents, cockroaches, etc. in the station. But you rarely see Chinese boasting abt these remarkable achievements, more foreigners telling the world the truth about China’s current situation.
The station's design is nice, but to tell you the truth, when I'm in China, I really don't feel anything special... It's been a while that for me, nice, clean, modern and well maintained Metro station is a normal thing! 😅 It is when I come back to my home country (France) that I ask myself: "what has happened here during these 20-30 year"? We had high-speed trains (TGV), train under the sea (Eurotunnel), supersonic plane (Concorde) and space rockets (Ariane)... I hope that like for China, every government in the World will strive to work for the improvement of their people's life and not only for the happy fews!
London's Subway stations are actually very good. It's a pity only London gets to enjoy having underground travel whilst the rest of the country gets expensive bus services
In 1997， Two of my friends and I were travelling in London and were very impressed by the Metro systems in London，we were told that the tube states are less one miles in whole London. At that time, we never dreamed that China can catch up so quickly. It seems that London tube system did not change in the last 30 years.
There was a UA-cam video I watched 1 or 2 years ago that showed a dozen or so very beautiful metro stations in China. Unfortunately I didn't note down the title or channel name. So I can't find that video now, otherwise I'll recommend you take a look.
多謝！
*Hi Stu, Many thanks for your amazing channel. It is GREAT. I love it. Wish you a successful & prosperous Year 2025. Merci !!* ❤
Thank you so much!
Last month while I was in Hong Kong I travelled to Shenzhen to spend half a day to do two things. One was to get a AI translator that can do over 120 languages. It cost just £40 and can do translation from language A to B and/or reversely. The other was to visit Gangxia North station. This happened just after I spent 25 days touring 10 Chinese cities including Shanghai, Chengdu and Chongqing that has fantastic metro stations of their own. Gangxia North looks out of this world so I decided to see it with my own eye.
Gangxia North station is indeed "the" station to see. That is the standard with which one can measure the others. I did spend nearly a full day to tour around the Shanghai metro system as it is the world's biggest. Chengdu is another one with many metro stations of outstanding beauty.
To be candid I would say apart from the decorations there isn't much in each of the beautiful metro station in China. Each comprises some platforms where the metro trains pass and stop. Then there is a common hall where the passengers can walk from one line to another line and exit the station. The colorful decoration is just there to make the passengers to feel less stressful. None of the decorations, possibly with the exception of Gangxia, is expensive but each one is an artistic expression of its own, with a theme and can be impactful to new passengers using the line. Gangxia North is structurally designed to make good use of its large dimensions, as it has to house some four lines together, to provide an visually pleasing environment. Each metro line is fully enclosed by glass so the whole station can be kept remarkably clean. The rest is just the attention to details. Chinese metro stations are designed for large number of passengers so relative to the west they are enormous with plenty of space and facilities.
My impression of the Chinese metro is that they are newer, more up to date, huge, faster, cleaner and most importantly more affordable. Typical ride is 2 to 4 yuan and that is £0.25 to £0.45 about 1/10 of what passengers in London or New York have to pay. It is noteworthy e-commerce is extensively used in China as I managed to go through every metro station in China with just a mobile phone.
let us or me know what translator you got for £40!!! can i search it on amazon is it accurate fast and easy?
Did you also know this metro station has underground shopping streets? One of them leads to another shopping area called One Avenue, which is connected to Link City, a bigger underground shopping street that connects all the downtown malls!
感謝司徒建国分享这么美丽科幻的車站！！！❤❤❤
感谢你的支持！永远不用谢谢我！！
@TravelinChina 你太客氣了☺️☺️☺️
Trains and train stations in the uk not only old also not very clean. The worst is they often delay and sometimes cancel. Nightmare if you need to be somewhere punctually.
Not all of them. Some are very clean. And some stations are very nice. But yes, there are some old, unclean trains. And some poor stations.
Totally agreed, UK trains never come on time and lots of cancellations, train ticket expensive as well
I never sit on seat of any tube in London. Most disgusting place in the world.
@@haojiefan9956 *Really, so horrible ???*
Same in Germany. Also very unfriendly train stuff who wake you up in a rude tone multiple times during one ride to manually check your ticket. Also, if you buy the wrong ticket (there are dozens of ticket types for the same route) you get fined heavily. If it happens several times and you are too poor to pay the fines, you will be jailed (many in jail because of this).
The station is truly a spectacular sight to behold!
很有名氣的深圳之眼，設計真的好看，我都有專程去看過。
每個站都不同設計。
It's impressive that all over China a huge investment in infrastructure is apparent. As opposed to the opposite in the US, I hate to admit.
There's nothing wrong with telling the truth.
No one but America itself is making its country on the decline, it is overspending where should not spend .
@@kimduong2332 Could be. Surely America can and will do better after they have worked through their "issues". All countries, of course, have them. America's though are playing out on a world internet stage. Perhaps every one will learn something.^
speechless about how pretty and CLEAN the stations are in China and getting a little depressed to think about our stations here at S.F and the money that our government spent on wars since 9/11 instead of spend that money here in the states.
Such infrastructure actually benefit more for people with lower income. Take my city as example, the cost of metro for tge ride from airport to my home is 8RMB, it's 200RMB if I take a cab.
As an American, we have it even worse than the Brits. I live in NYC and half of our train stations look post apocalyptic. The end result of nearly 80 years of disinvestment.
Ban, sanction, and tariff China! China cannot catch up.
The whole world should be jealous. I seriously doubt there are many train stations anywhere in the world as beautiful as this
Jealousy can propel a person to do better which is good. But if Jealousy makes a person do evil things that is bad. The Hegemonic US is unfortunately in the 2nd category
It does look grand because it’s huge. To be fair many newly built stations are beautiful too, like the new metro stations in Sydney.
Only Russia comes close..and in a very different beautiful way also !
Thank you so much for sharing the amazing video!!! I knew a lot of special things from you. I really appreciate!!! Have a blessed day.
Glad you liked it!
thx for yr nice video
Most welcome
歡迎你和父母及太太，再到來深圳,珠海旅遊。🥰🤗
Our metro stations in Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt, etc.) smell like piss, are crumbling, ugly, unsafe, with many delays and cancellations, have awful complicated pricing systems (dozens of different prices for the same route) and on top of all this, tickets are ridiculously overpriced even for shortest distances. Man I really miss the infrastructure and harmonious vibe of mainland China.
Public transport reflects the public.
@@yaelz6043 Sadly, Westerners stress that individualism comes first. Whereas in China with its long civilization Society comes first
@@yu-jd5jg yes, and this cannot change.
私營和公營的差距
*_Hi guy, you don't need to be jealous beacuse you are 75% Chinese. You got the Chinese ID while I don't have it. I am a Chinese living in Hong Kong. I also cannot speak Mandarin as well as you._* 🤝🤝
Me too!
Me three! 😂
我也是😅我是台灣的中國人😂
@@catefu3576 Thank you , my friend. 🤝🤝
Me five
when I was there last fall 2024 they had a huge art exhibit in the metro... and it was AMAZING. Also freee.
上年已到這個站打卡了, 真是很壯觀~~~
帶父母去深圳食和住酒店, 好多都會令你爸媽有驚喜呀~
What is so surprising (and shocking) is that it was in Britain (the U.K.) that trains and the railway system was first developed ahead of every other country in the world. One would think that the U.K. should have by now, the most modern, the most advanced trains ahead of anyone else. However, it seems that after making so many developments and advances in technology (firearms, the industrial revolution, shipping, the jet engine, modern medicine, etc, etc) the English sort of fell asleep at the wheel while dreaming of the old days.
Spot on
所以说为啥川普叫川建国啊，老祖宗早就说过：生于忧患 死于安乐也。不是川建国同志的当头一棒，我们还在温水里呢
Every generation gets lazier and more entitled from the last. When you have the mindset of being #1 for so long you don't see everyone else catching up or surpassing you. It happens everywhere, including China when they dismissed the newly arrival of European countries to their shores.
i wanna see the business class coach on that subway
Me too! Me too...
Line 11 has it, other lines don't.. unfortunately can't post any images on here to show it
I'm jealous you got to see it and I haven't.
Go go go
Shenzhen is a huge city, where you can ride a bike instead of metro
你可以搭去《深圳灣公園》站，出去海邊看海鷗，冬天很多海鷗在海邊，很壯觀的😂，旁邊有個“歡樂海岸”，也很漂亮，挺好逛的
As a fellow Brit, living in China, I completely agree that its an amazing station. Its the closest station to where I teach. Commuted home daily from there, until I bought a car.
Lucky you! I can't get a number plate in Beijing, so I can't buy a car. Been waiting for a long while.
@TravelinChina They issue them twice a month here. Bought a BYD hybrid and got the green plate straight away. My wife has been waiting for a blue plate for years, so I just bought her a Geely Panda EV.
@@mattgage1021 Is it easy to afford a car in China?
@kimduong2332 basic EVs are very cheap here, but like every country, it depends on your salary.
You should visit Hainan Island during the winter.
I love Hainan
The station is massive! Everything there has the kind of futuristic design I would expect at Disneyland for a building housing some cool fantasy ride! Even the area at the end where people are just eating outside looks so nice and new!
I know what you mean - it's like stepping into a movie set!
don't be Jealous, Stu, you are half Chinese - zhong guo hao nv xu. Thanks for loving China
At present, only three provinces in China have not opened subways, Tibet, Qinghai, Hainan, (Hainan is already planned) and Macao.
Thank you!
澳门有地铁好吧！自己看地图
thanks Stu , i will give it a go on Monday when i return from HK to GZ 👍👍
Looking forward to your review!
Impressive station. Hopefully by the end of this year, we would be able to see the Beijing Sub Center terminal which is another major project
I’m looking forward to it!
的确白天来会更好，因为那几个大天窗除了造型方面的独特之外，还兼顾重要的采光功能。白天会特别明显，因为站厅规模很大，上下四层，结构是完全打开的，采光是个大问题，白天足够多的自然光引入，使得空间显得特别明亮开阔，这个时候深圳之眼的感受才更契合。
今年底刚开通的另一个这种大型换乘站，还有黄木岗站，结构跟岗厦北也有类似的地方，也是上下四五层，完全打开，但站的形态是长条的，就像一个大型shopping mall，上下层之间的穿插也很特别。也值得一看，大型枢纽型的站在建还有两个，基本都是这个规模，估计要再过两年才能竣工开通。
Thank you for sharing your video with me, I am more jealous of your Oxford English than the Shenzen metro station.
So nice of you
真漂亮的車站 宏偉又精緻 謝謝司徒
As of 2024, 54 cities in China have opened urban rail transit, of which 43 have opened subways or light rails
Futuristic
“来都来了，再转一圈儿” now, if that is not certified native level Beijing dialect, I don't know what is.
This subway station is filled with a futuristic sense of technology.
No idea if our station is pretty, but 大梅沙 is fairly new and pretty big (coz we have loads of tourists during holidays 🤣) feel free to come spend time at the beachside. Pls avoid coming on weekends it’s 人山人海😂 enjoy your trip here in Shenzhen!
Thanks for the tip!
In addition to China’s subway station being very modern , huge , punctual , clean, able to manage large numbers of commuters- they are very safe AND look better than many airports in the West. There is no graffiti or vandalism so they are well protected and maintained. Finally , it’s rare to find rodents, cockroaches, etc. in the station.
But you rarely see Chinese boasting abt these remarkable achievements, more foreigners telling the world the truth about China’s current situation.
I'm SZ local, be impressed! I command you!😀😀😀
I am, I am!
I love China! ❤❤❤
The station's design is nice, but to tell you the truth, when I'm in China, I really don't feel anything special... It's been a while that for me, nice, clean, modern and well maintained Metro station is a normal thing! 😅
It is when I come back to my home country (France) that I ask myself: "what has happened here during these 20-30 year"? We had high-speed trains (TGV), train under the sea (Eurotunnel), supersonic plane (Concorde) and space rockets (Ariane)...
I hope that like for China, every government in the World will strive to work for the improvement of their people's life and not only for the happy fews!
I wonder if any one had ever compare New York USA and London UK Metro stations....
London's Subway stations are actually very good. It's a pity only London gets to enjoy having underground travel whilst the rest of the country gets expensive bus services
it's a great system if not a little over priced... but that's everything in London unfortunately.
Next video: Stu visits ALL the metro stations in the whole of China and ranks them 🤔😂
Might need to win the lottery before I can do that
@ you and me both 😅
Clean, modern, and efficient are the common features of the metro stations here.
Be something wrong if not impressed
Impressive, looks like you're on a space station in a sci-fi movie
SZ is very Morden❤
In 1997， Two of my friends and I were travelling in London and were very impressed by the Metro systems in London，we were told that the tube states are less one miles in whole London. At that time, we never dreamed that China can catch up so quickly. It seems that London tube system did not change in the last 30 years.
London's tube is very impressive, especially considering it's age.
All the new subway stations are as beautiful not just that one!
Stu.. you're Chinese now.. the UK is not what it was.. get use to it.. things will only get worse..
成都的很多地铁站也非常漂亮，尤其是那些新建的线路
The British like their history.
Keeping everything the same for over a hundred years gives it character and charm. 😂
Bro. Which camera are you using ?
This was all filmed on dji pocket 2, and some shots with a Xiaomi 13 using Dolby Vision. Hope that helps.
@ nice brother
You should visit little Africa in Xiaobei and Guangyuanxi and explore the dynamics between the chinese and the africans.
深圳是年輕人的城市,您肯定要來啦😂
👍👍👍
8海線，大梅沙站，以海洋主題設計，我覺得也很漂亮
谢谢你的建议！我下次一定去
speechless, so pretty.
There was a UA-cam video I watched 1 or 2 years ago that showed a dozen or so very beautiful metro stations in China.
Unfortunately I didn't note down the title or channel name. So I can't find that video now, otherwise I'll recommend you take a look.
That's a shame - maybe it'll show up in my recommendations one day.
@TravelinChina 👍
Stupidest thing in the world is to build underground palaces on public costs
You have humanity's first subway.Just need to clean it up, keep it on time, and refurbish the trains, it's still good.
岗厦北这个站可太火了，好多外国网红都去打卡了😄
你可以座地鐵去《深圳灣公園》體驗無人機點餐
Every major park in Shenzhen has the drone delivery available now 😊
加油司徒建国🎉🎉
我已入暮之年~叫你一聲司徒老弟不為過吧~😊!我記得没錯的話~地鐵老祖可是你們大英帝國呀~😮!
👍👍👍
It looks like an airport.😂😂😂
No shopping mall inside this station?
Indoor underground shopping streets if you come out of the metro 1 level higher
Is this the metro station Western netizens thought was in Japan?
That station was in Beijing
*Most train stations in Japan are old and dark. Of course, they were built many years ago.*
地铁和高铁基本是亏本的, 由于资本主义国家只想盈利, 所以很少会建这些基础设施
Yes, only CCP would run a loss bussiness for the people. You know, the High Speed Railway is running at a loss seriously every year.
👍✌️❤️😘
你也可以来体验一下武汉徐家棚地铁站，就是换乘的时候费腿
你穿短袖耶
stu 是有白头发了吗
好多
a subway station under this big beach in Shenzhen ... ua-cam.com/video/954fisrNw4U/v-deo.htmlsi=0Znm9TCyQYzoIftC
欢迎司徒来深圳！
❤😂🎉❤😂🎉
还有一个站是11号线的大运站（湾区之美）弯曲流水线条让空间充满科幻，一步一景空间跳动应接不暇！
You should be jealous😂
I’m gonna be honest, it’s too big
It's a terminal station, so it's got to be quite big
@ I know I’m from Shenzhen. I just hate how big it is and how much I have to walk. And how crowded it is during work hours
Metro was buikt for citizen's convenience. Not to imoress anyone. Dont get excited.
😍😍
Stu, by 2050, you will say this metro is obsolete and China has more splendid structures to fire you up.
I doubt it'll be obsolete