Chongqing - Nightlife in the Chinese megacity | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- If you want to experience China, you can't avoid Chongqing. This megacity is growing at a blistering place. But beware, it is not a place for anyone with a fear of heights, or a sensitive stomach.
The population of Chongqing, in southwestern China, has exploded over the last 30 years: now, some 32 million people live here. Covering an area the size of Austria, Chongqing is one of the largest cities in the world in terms of physical size.
In China, the megacity has become a tourist magnet. It’s known for its unique spots for snapping photos, like the train that runs right through the eighth floor of a high-rise building. Social media influencers have contributed to popularizing the city, once known mainly as an arrival or departure point for cruise tourists.
The people of Chongqing have a reputation for being particularly warm-hearted. City guide Zhen Jili, for example, knows every corner of his city, and has witnessed first-hand how his "big village" became a megacity. He takes visitors through his remarkable metropolis, where GPS is useless, because you never know which floor your destination is on.
Professional "designated driver" Shen Xun takes the film’s viewers along on his journey through Chongqing's raucous nightlife, where the party doesn‘t end until morning. Because there is a strict ban on drinking and driving in China, anyone who has had a drink can call Shen Xun. He then arrives on his little folding bike, which he stows in the trunk before chauffeuring his customers home in their car.
Livestreamers like Paipai can be seen on every street corner in Chongqing. She explains why livestreaming is a billion-dollar business in China, and takes viewers to one of the city's tallest buildings, for a view from right in the middle of the skyline.
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I'm from a small town in Canada and marvel at how one city can have more people than our entire population. Lol! Incredible!
Canada has 41+ million people
Chongqing has under 15 million people living in the urban area, the rest live in rural areas. It is 150 times the size of Toronto, and 13 times the area of The Greater Toronto Area. it is a technicality. It would be like combining Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington DC, and their suburbs, and call it a city with 36 million people.
@@zigzag00 true, and Chongqing should not be called a city. Greater New York City has 4000 square miles of land. Chongqing has 35,000 square miles of land. It is like calling Florida a city.
If you're not too woke, I highly doubt you will like that massive woke in a pink city.
BBC: This machine is a typical of forced labour
CNN: The overcapacity of Chinese moon landing
DW: Chang'e 6, the dark side of the dark side of the moon
Finally someone with credibility speaks the truth about China. Chongqing, Guangzhou, Beijing , Shanghai, Xian, Kunming , Urumqi, Hangzhou, …. So many cities and so diverse. It’s very safe, cashless economy using a super App, subways ,high speed trains ,cabs hailing , amazing food , incredible infrastructure, friendly peaceful and helpful ppl. All very affordable. A treasure trove for great adventures. Welcome to all and enjoy your stay.
that is definitely true🥰
Just don’t cross the government.
@@gzahnd Now why would you if they brought 800M ppl out of poverty. Built the best high speed rail , subway , infrastructure, created a cashless economy , made ir safe 24/7 anywhere you go, made cities green with EVs, electric buses, cheap and affordablel living , 5G everywhere, , excellent services Didi and food delivery etc. Their cities are unmatched. And all this with 1.4B ppl. Countries with 60M cant even do 1/2. The govt have served the ppl well. Ofc there are exceptions, but a large majority are happy.
are you being sarcastic?
@@finback2005 Nope only looking at facts and Chinese govt have delivered at every level
Chongqing is utterly stunning.
No I m sorry but no stunning is rio de janeiro that is stunning.. Does the city even any ancient structure because i dont want to see a cheap copy of NYC london but if you have ancient past structures taht is different like pyramid of the sun in mexico city..
@@RM360CR comparing Chongqing to Rio De Janeiro is like comparing 2008 Olympic opening ceremony to 2016 Olympic opening ceremony...
@@RM360CR Instead of relying on imagination, it's better to buy a plane ticket to Chongqing!
Chongqing is not entirely composed of modern architecture, but has also preserved many ancient buildings!
@@RM360CR Many people do not know that ChongQing was the capital of China. when Japan invaded China and occupied Nanjing (the capital of China), Chinese nationalist army moved to this city as the capital to resist Japanese invasion. Chongqing was bombed and air-raid by Japanese fighters, but was never occupied by Japan.
@@RM360CR During the Anti-Japanese War, in 1937, as the Nationalist government moved inland, more than 30 countries in the world anti-fascist alliance, including the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, successively opened embassies in Chongqing. In addition, more than 40 countries and regions established foreign affairs agencies in Chongqing.
Please don't dub people speaking English but not necessarily doing so perfectly. Just use subtitles, please... It's important to hear the person's voice.
I personally watch these documentaries because they dub over the English language. I often only get to watch documentaries when doing chores and can't read subtitles enough to keep up with what's being said. This is just another perspective.
Having traveled to five continents and most large cities in the world, I can responsibly say that Chongqing is the world's only mega city (pop > 15 million) that is not built on boring flat topography. The city's landscape, verticality, two large rivers crossing mountains, urban vibes, and the blending of past and future, tradition and modernity are unparalleled by any large city in the world.
A chinese in China speaking german...that's more impressive than the city
and a German speaking fluent Chinese, that's even more impressive.
There are German language major in all Chinese foreign language colleges, and many language institutions.
@fdjw88 Many German auto companies have factories in Xinjiang. So, it isn't so impressive.
We often imagine a future city like this, but never knew it already existed.
We imagined it as a warning, it is called Dystopia.
fake spambot.
it's culture. chinese confucian culture is behind all these bs, work hard, move up in life, respect the elder, etc... In the USA, I'm so tired of all the crimes, vandalizing, homeless, drug addicts, illegals immigrants, etc.
BBC: This machine is a typical of forced labour
CNN: The overcapacity of Chinese moon landing
DW: Chang'e 6, the dark side of the dark side of the moon
@@JeffBilkins You imagined the slums in such a metropolis as a warning. But in Chongqing there is no slum. Even in the poorest regions called urban villages in Chongqing, people have cheap and reliable water, power and Internet, being safe to walk outside after midnight, able to find a job with satisfying payment.
Thank you, DW... for giving this documentary added to every traveller's bucket list
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Except the voiceover where the singapore man is speaking in perfect english. Absolutely unnecessary editing discrediting the man’s english. 😂😂
@@DWDocumentary please reupload the anti semitism doc series just turn off the comments 😭
I will put Chongqing on my bucket list.
欢迎你来重庆！(Welcome to Chongqing！)
@@user-ue9ku1en3i thank you. asante sana
The perfect setting for a Cyberpunk future.
China is beautiful and is the future
I almost forgot how good western media is when it's not politicizing and blabbering propaganda every other sentence.
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@@DWDocumentary no problem. Now I only say US number one. DW number one too. I love your rule of law and condemn China's censorship
great documentary! I used to visit my grandpa who lived in Chongqing once a while during my childhood. it was not nothing like this. How exciting transformation!
Wow. I'm from a small town in India. It amazes me how different are peoples lives in distinguished places. I loved it. I love seeing human beings living their life so differently though we live in the same world.
Hello from Brazil. Same fellings
Yes it's pretty cool! Petty that islamists are destroying that in Europe nowadays.
@@matt-eu-poland exactly look at France. Although the Muslims want the freedom they want France to adopt their way of life. Where it should be the other way around or get the hell out of their country!
@@matt-eu-poland Yo what the fuck? Matt EU Poland WTF????
Yes we get scammed too
the best time to visit Chongqing is during winter. yes it was cold. but hey, that was when the hotpot taste more delicious. believe me, you don't want to sit infront of the fireplace during summer
Yeah, I made the mistake of travelling through China during summer 2023 right after the easing of the lockdown. That would such a big mistake. There were parents taking their kids on their first holiday and CQ was a pain to navigate. Hiking up and down 10 stories of stairs just to get to different sightseeing spots was not fun! 😅 My clothes were drenched all the time either by rain or sweat.
I watched the video yesterday and watched it again just now. The whole city looks like a gigantic Disneyland park, so surreal 😂
Go to Shenzhen and you will find it's even more crazy, like living in 2050
Disneyland Park is safer, more fun, but not as free. The food there is quite expensive, and not so great.
Documentary made by DW about China is normally negative. it is so rare for DW to produce something about China that is positive. What a surprise!
indeed...what sorcery is this?!
Thoroughly enjoyed the documentary. Beautifully shot and narrated. why did you give a voiceover for the gentleman who spoke good English at the Raffles building though?
First time I see Western media reporting something positive about China.
Im from Pakistan, learning Chinese for fun. I am at level A but I'm improving gradually. I wish to visit China and have a chat with the locals. ❤
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I’m fascinated with how nearly dystopian this city looks and feels.
Every City in China is Huge , clean , advance technology and infrastructure is in another level. Like Chongqing,Shenzhen,Guangzhou, Shanghai,Hangzhou, Chengdu , Beijing,Tianjin, and many More.
When both DW and BBC suddenly making films to promote Chinese tourism, u know there must be some new political deals made successfully behind doors between Chinese government and the West. I don't know what it is yet, but we'll see...
DW TV did not have Indians 15 years ago. May as well say that DW TV did the same deal with the Indian government
lol, I agree, I wish you are right, in fact, China and Germany are always good trading partners, German investment has been playing positive role in China since from 1930s, many Chinese people won't forget about this.
For sure
I think it's simple market dynamics. When there are travel vloggers who've made amazing contents in place like Chongqing, the big corporations would follow the money and start producing things themselves.
If you look at how things are report economically and politically, very little has changed.
@MErwin And read the comment section about complaints on her accent.
I love Chongqing
So cool to see the girl singing the cranberries song (I’m from Ireland where Dolores the singer is from of the original song )! This city looks amazing love seeing what china has to offer
Great documentary. Please do the same about other Chinese cities and infrastructure.
This is the only time DW did not use a gray filter when photographing China, and the only time he did not mention "human rights" or "freedom". I don't understand. Chinese people have their own culture and life. As a country thousands of kilometers away from China, why should you impose your understanding of human rights and freedom on the Chinese? China and Germany are completely different countries, and they do not pose a threat to each other. So, can't we show a little respect and understanding to each other?
I have worked as a Civil Engineer in Hong Kong, been to Tokyo, Seoul, NYC etc etc so I am not someone who have never been to a big city and Chongqing still blew me away.
Finally DW is learning its lesson and understanding that China bashing is not the way to go!
说的对！🎉不黑了，网络强大到它们骗不了了！
Not quite….DW still bashed abit. They just had to emphasise about China government not allowing them to film LGBT community and the girl signing some song……..true or not, we wouldn’t know.
I personally think it’s bullshit….
Their propaganda is well embedded in the documentary unlike BBC which is too obvious.
I'm confused isn't the Singaporean speaking in English, why does he need a voice over of what he is actually saying?
Really good storytelling about Chongqing the city I grew up . Hope DW can have more this type of real Chinese story about the people and life there, not just politics views
It’s amazing! Greetings from Bulgaria! 🇨🇳❤️🇧🇬
Getting Bladerunner vibes for sure!! Might have to add Chongqing to the list for me upcoming trip to China ✈🎉😍
"Martin spends 46 hours a day in front of his phone." Dude is streaming content from Venus to have a day that lasts that long! 😂
Four to six 😂
I also heard forty-six at first 😂
4 to 6 hours
Fourtosix
four to six, not forty six. 😂
Just came back from ChongQing. Love the place and food.
love this kind of video
The beautiful lights are really impressive at night, at night this city looks fantastic, a great demonstration of architectural lighting ✌️❤️🇬🇧
Great doc DW. Ive been watching a lot of travel walking videos n chongqing has quickly become a fav of mine. Not exactly foreign friendly as other places, but still looks like a great visit.
Barely a tree in sight
🌲🌳🌴🌵🌾🌿☘️🍀
Chongqing looks amazing! But there’s def some weird information in this there are less than 6 million people in Singapore and the Empire State Building is actually taller than Raffles tower lol 😂
It is pretty unusual to see DW posting something positive about China.
Chong Qing is my #1 all time favorite.
Love DW documentaries. This is so interesting 🎉❤ I never really wanted to visit China but this place really looks amazing 😮
If you like China, that must be great!
Thank you DW for the lovely documentary. I have been china once. I was impressed. A beautiful country with beautiful people.
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The confusing streets and infrastructures is the reasons this city attract a lot of visitors.
28:17 and 29:25 the Singaporean man was speaking English, what's the point of using voiceover?
😂
he uh cannot uh speak uh the enguh-lish... haiya.. (sweet sour pork)
He was speaking Deutsche
@@jickramesFuyu!
@@wymount696 No he wasn't 😂
Perfect scenery for Bladerunner 3
Of all the places I've travelled so far Chongqing has been my favorite by far. Just walking around the city is enough entertainment for a week.
I've been to 4 cities, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Shenzhen. I agree that Chongqing really is interesting. It's the best for exploring. I also thought it had the best food.
@@Righteous1ist and Chengdu is quite a convenient day trip away with the train only taking an hour! Not that I'd recommend Chengdu for more than a day trip to see the pandas though.
Maybe it's good for visiting for a couple of days but living permanently in that mega concrete jungles isn't good for mental and physical health.
City of 30 mln people and they only discussed with Germans. Typical in Germany. I was expecting less German propaganda and more showing of other cultures but okay XD
I only know of Chongqing because I overheard rumours about the sighting of a bald man wearing a barcode on the back of his head and sharpest of suits.
@@XxHaythamKenwayxX you should know
STUNNING C H I N A!!!!!
World's No.1 in city development and infrastructure.
Visited here twice. Amazing city that is worth the hype. It is HOT though and if you arent ready for cardio, it wont be for you.
There is a small city between Chongqing and Chengdu, name is Suining. departure from suining to either mega city by train will take 1 hour.
This is a very well done, informative and beautiful video.
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Such an incredible city that I've visited and vlogged on numerous occasions!
😂😂😂
ChongQing is a mountainous city, normally, no one would build a city in a place like this, ChongQing was first established only as a military outpost, at about 2500 years ago, it continue to exist and became larger and larger, mainly due to military importance, a thousand year later Chongqing became the stronghold to defend agaisnt Mongols invasion, Chongqing gained its political and economic importance during Japanese invasion, it became the temporary Capital of the Republic of China when China lost all their coastal region, it remain as the "back up" city of China til today, if one day China was invaded again, the government of Chia will move to Chongqing, again
German people are very welcomed in China, most of them are honest and hard working technicians and middle managers, focus on problem solving and responsible for work. Wish more young German people to study and work in China.
For the older folks,.... ChongQing is formerly known as "Chunking"... China's ROC WWII wartime capital. ROC is now Taiwan.
People are living better lives here than Germany
Funny...I was just there a few days ago and yeah it looks amazing when the lights go on at 8.
This city reminds me of the movie Blade Runner
The direction, guidance, and integrity of a nation's leaders shape its character, which the people eventually adopt. Indonesia is truly a great country, rich in resources and filled with intelligent individuals. However, corruption here is rampant. It has become a joke on social media, which reflects the people's despair, leading to widespread apathy. If only Indonesia’s leaders had integrity and were focused on the interests of the people, the country would surely have become a developed nation like China is today. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
DW please make more of these neutral documentaries about China instead of wild propaganda every day. We love this.
A lot of people in the US think China is still an agricultural country, in the last 20 years it has dramatically changed and that younger Chinese people are more like western young people. We should share our similarities and differences and learn to appreciate each other.
Justtt majestic...how the cityyy resident manage theirrr livelihood..
Boring. But then Euros get a big thrill out of eating plastic foam food and blinking at led lights all night.
The swollen harvest moon riding across the sky has got stupid ugly cities beat all to hell.
i could not imagine a more lonely place
If it rains.
Mfs will call me racist for saying ching chong when they literally have a city called chongching. 😂
Really impressed with the german speaking guide
I REALLY WISH that i come here this year. I truly and sincerely do.
I was just thinking about Chongqing, Hope i can visit it someday along with Hong Kong and Tokyo
A city the size of Austria? 😱
That's 84.000km2. How is that possible???
That's not a city, that's a country devoid of nature 🫣
Chongqin is not all just urban center, it has large area of countryside where all kinds of nature exist.
As a proud foreigner from chengdu, I disagree. Chengdu is much better
haha
gay city，girls with a bad temper
I agree with you. ChengDu is better.
Qingdao and Dalian are better than Chongqing , Chengdu and Kunming.
chongqing is so fuck hot. not suitable for living
Only know Chongqing as the place where Xiao Zhan (One of China's most popular and loved actors) is from, so this was very interesting! I don't know why, but I always imagined it as a small town.
Rice 🍚 & Shine ✨️
A wonderful introduction and thrilled watching documentary about a tourist paradise ( night life ) in Chinese city ( Chongqing), which modernized recently
Just another condescending video on China from DW. Watching from a sunsetting city in Germany, Hamburg.
Was there in June; pollution, humidity, heat, felt like hell on earth
If you came from a country like Finland, you would defintely feel like that in Chongqing. This is a common things in cities like that around the world.
Good for young generation? Exciting.
Don’t come to China in summer
I kind of figured that when they said 32 million people, kind of inevitable. Probably fun at night though...
那不是污染，那是雾，中国的夏天很热，我夏天基本不会在外面逛
I'll surely visit Chongqing soon. Amazing city, amazing documentary by DW. Danke!
I love DW, you always show us great things.
BBC: This machine is a typical of forced labour
CNN: The overcapacity of Chinese moon landing
DW: Chang'e 6, the dark side of the dark side of the moon
WSJ: they used child labour to build the city. Foxnews: all homelessness were cancelled by the community party. BBC: beautiful lights, but at what costs.
I moved this city in 2016 . I saw the development of this city from zero . There was only few tall buildings in 2016 . I saw all big building s construction from zero. I m engineer😅
I can’t believe china has all this many big cities we have never heard of, this cities are even bigger than cities we know
There are over 600 cities in China, with 16 cities having a population of over 10 million. If you want to visit all the cities in China, it will take you about 6-8 years!
There are 30+ mega Cities in China & 50+ cities with Metro system all are world's largest. Mega Cities includes-Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, Shenzhen Etc.
澳门可不算特大城市，顶多是地位高。哈哈，澳门还没上海的机场大
重庆和四川都很好玩，很多美食～
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Martin speaks Chongqingese pretty well❤
Amazing city
Look at many cities in US/EU can have such a active nightlife.
US House has just passed a bill to allocate 1.6 billion on anti-China propaganda. If you make a film "Chongqing - the collapsing Chinese megacity", you will get a pretty good amount from this 1.6 billion.
Just don’t visit Chongqing in summer, it is super super hot and humid, other seasons are all fine
true, I was there in June 2024. It was humid but wasn't too bad, similar to Fiji and Thailand. It did rain every other day though. Other than that, it's an amazing city and amazing people. We stayed at Ufia Jiefangbei Designer Hotel, smack in the middle of "Time Square".
but at what cost
The city looks amazing!!! But how big of a problem is the gutter oil?
yummy, it will never go away, people will go for cheap oil everytime.
18:25 shady spit oil
China solved the problem of gutter oil a long time ago. Gutter oil is now used as industrial oil. China exports 1 million tons of gutter oil to the United States every year.
It's a huge problem. The problem is not solved. The censorship around the topic has just increased so you see it less.
@@lunchtime2960 "just"? Exactly when? In fact, the gutter oil problem was solved almost 7-8 years ago
tell you.a.true. Chinese living life much longer than most westen countries. Why?
Quite stimulating.
But I prefer to choose the stimulus. Not be consumed by it. Even if the stimulus isn't so stimulating. And of course if one is not consumed, there will be choices.
The food looks yummy!!
DW brings best 👌
DW please bring a documentary on minority of Bangladesh
Same like bbc brought documentary on india killing Muslim demosolised their home but the same terrorist BJP government ban on it 😢
Love this place, hope to visit some day soon:))
Have been to Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau. Know of other big cities like Shenzhen and Guangzhou but never heard of this city. Not really surprised though as I have heard that there are several of these mega cities in China now. Thank you DW for introducing me to this exciting city🙏
It's hard to imagine, isn't it?
Like living in Canada and never hearing about Toronto or Montreal.
@@janetkoster6243 Well, not exactly. I don’t live in china😬. Just have been fortunate to visit the aforementioned cities. Surely the Chinese would know of this city. But I think there are several of these mega cities now in China that not every one of them is globally popular. Shanghai and Hong Kong were pioneers in mega cities in China, so they became popular. Macau known for its Las Vegas style and Beijing being the capital are also known. When the rest started cropping up, I guess the world didn’t really take notice🤷🏻♂️
When the Japanese invaded China in WWII, the Nationalist government moved to Chongqing. Air Raid shelters were dug deep into the rock because the Japanese bombed it daily. From 1942- 1945, the US Army Air Transport flew supply missions from Calcutta to Chongqing regularly over the Himalayas, in the operation known as The Hump. 600 planes were lost and around 1000 pilots died due to highly dangerous conditions including flying day and night at high altitudes, poor weather, freezing wind gusts up to 150mph, and dodging Japanese fighters. At the end of the war, after 14 million Chinese were killed during the Japanese occupation, Japan sent a military delegation to Nanjing to negotiate the terms of surrender. During that time, they were flown across China to Chongqing by Hump pilots, apparently for sightseeing, then back to Nanjing for the surrender ceremony!
Beautiful building, Raffles, excellent location.