280m is absolutely insane. Here in my home county of Australia, to even get a job like this off the ground, $280 million would be spent in red tape and approvals and permits and so on. Before shovel even met the ground
Man I’m getting old, I still remember the Jean Claude van damme movies in china and still think china is still like that. You can argue how china got here but damn this is getting serious impressive! Especially considering countries like Dubai basically did a money glitch. I would not be surprised if these projects are 100% Chinese without any sort of foreign help or aid. No wonder trump won the elections because china is becoming a real problem
Dubai didn't grow Just oil money for rich people 90 percent of dubai is foreigner Workers are foreigner Teachers are foreigner Students are foreigner And Dubai doesn't even have industry The country did nothing for natives ( other than some sheikhs ) But china nah mate different story
@Mandom007 oil isn't everything! Venezuela has a lot and so does yemen. The leadership in abu dhabi deserve credit also dubai barely has any oil, abu dhabi has much more yet dubai is much more well known with more money and less oil
I wanted to laugh when I saw the comments saying that Chinese workers are underpaid. In fact, in such field projects, the average Chinese worker can get about 12K RMB after tax, which is about 1.7K USD. It doesn't look like much, right? But it's enough for this average worker to buy a Chinese-made EV SUV with 9-10 months' salary, without a loan. This car is also sold in Europe and Australia, it's called BYD alto 3 ~
I am also Chinese. This type of job is very dangerous, which is why it has a salary of 12,000 yuan. Ordinary workers generally do not earn this income; only technical jobs do.For example, a painter
Oh, I really enjoyed this type of narration, finally without going through all those politically correct terms like CCP regime, evil communist party, which I really had enough of most Western media keeping running same narrations or narratives. But this video is very professional and very objectively purely discuss the reasons, the background, the history all around and relate to the bridge itself. This is called professional journalism.
Yeah, I agree. There are many valid criticisms to be made about the Chinese government, but that is true about all governments and not neccesary in a video like this, especially considering that these types of videos don't talk about any other countries government. I think it's in large part just the West's desire to hold onto a superiority complex and exceptionalism, as well as hold up ideas of some kind of fundamentally different "Oriental" aspect.
I’ve traveled near this region and it is spectacular. I was expecting this bridge to cost way more. Whatever the cost, it’ll be worth it. Hopefully it’ll bring prosperity to the local people. China is an amazing, safe and friendly place to visit, just don’t break the law there.
The expressway will not allow pedestrians or bicycles to pass, but I really hope that a non-motorized lane can be reserved on this bridge. In that case, I think I might take a plane to visit this bridge. I hope the Chinese designers can meet this requirement. desire😁
How can you not respect the Chinese? Even if you are a westerner. I mean...whatever you say about them. Regardless of if you agree or not, how can you look at that and not marvel? It takes your breath away. The things China has done the past 30 years is nothing short of spectacular. In almost every aspect, almost unimaginable. Truly a miracle of mankind. Well done man. Well done. Shine bright China! The world is watching.
Because 90% of everything they make either falls apart or is outright fake. Their apartment buildings fall over, their stadiums and malls collapse, the multiple poisonous mushroom scandals, their rotten Jinhua ham, the fake baby formula scandal, their DDVP pickled vegetables containing industrial-grade salt, counterfeit alcohol and medication, their soy sauce made from human hair, their EVs explode, the 300 school children that were poisoned in 2006, contaminated fish, infected snail meat, using sewage in tofu manufacturing, their phones that either catch fire or spy on you or both, their low-quality solar panels that only work half the time and so on, etc., etc. People should probably take their "respect" for China with a huge pinch of salt. Just make sure it isn't chinese salt because it'd probably be fake and kill you outright.
It's crazy that 23 years ago America had the 2 highest bridges in the world; The Royal Gourge Bridge in Colorado and the New River Gourge Bridge in West Virginia. Now they are 26th and 34th respectively and dawfed by this this monster of a bridge.
Yeah but ours require ecological surveying, market analysis, paying people for the land taken, pay a "liveable" wage (not that America has increased the fed minimum wage in 16 years) build to code so it wont be in disrepair within 5 years, and actually builds with a purpose beyond using special financing vehicles to make the regional GDP meet the requirements set by Beijing even though it lead to a real-estate crash in China that's just getting pounded into the dirt with these sorts of projects. So like I'd rather pay more for a quality bridge that actually goes somewhere and not just a prop to use to cook the books
@@IanHausser You are right. Chinese people carry electronic positioning with them every day and move within the allowed range. Once they exceed the limit, they will go to jail.
The investment in the bridge itself is $279. 72 million, with an additional $140 million invested to build a tourism service area that includes a five-star hotel, a highway rest area, a tourism service center, and more.
@@mechannel7046 I think I only have to use 120-200 yen 💴💹 right?? If budget is much bigger than this then I won't go.... simple 🥱🤣🤣 eating foods with these money 💰 feels much amazing for me 😋🤭.
Good luck I think your baby 🐥🍼 aren't even born yet 😂 your still thinking about having baby this year and then go few years later LoL what an wired plan 😮.
Good luck, these sorts of projects don't last long since they are actually just ways to make local governments appear to have met the GDP requirements from Beijing but are actually just debt traps
Yet another great video, so well presented, love the historical background to this magnificent bridge in China, and the jokes too, keep up the great works sir
I don't even know about this Megaproject and I live just in the adjacent province. Domestic news like this always hidden from my daily life and social media news. What a life!
I saw with my own eyes there were only 1 guy driving the compactor and 2 guys layering the sides of the road when the Chinese rebuilt a portion of the N12 road in Laos. It's mind boggling.
@@supergirlfromheaven8421 it's very easy for native Chinese speakers to tell that you are using a translation software. Stop pretending you are Chinese.
There are amazing differences in the prices of things made in China compared to things made in other countries. I have been checking the availability and prices of gate drivers. These are things about 6mm (quarter inch) square with eight metal connecting pins and some amazing electronic wizardry inside, for turning transistors in a high-power circuit on and off. For gate drivers of western brands you are looking at one, two or three US dollars each. For Chinese brands the prices are around five or six US CENTS. How is this possible? Some people have told me the Chinese components are fakes/rejects/dummies that do not work. I bought some and tested them. Guess what? They work perfectly. I have also bought a Chinese thermal imaging camera that cost one-sixth the price of the well-known western brand and gives a far superior image, in which you can easily identify individual components on a printed circuit board rather than seeing blurry blobs of colour.
The Gordie Howe International Crossing being built between Detroit and Windsor Ontario has a main span of 2,799' carrying vehicle traffic with 151’ of clearance for shipping on the Detroit River. The current cost is 6.7 Billion and is scheduled to open next year after a delay due to covid. One tower is worth 280 million. Somebody did the math wrong. China imports iron ore!
1:43 the longest suspension bridge in the world is the "1915 Çanakkale Bridge" in Turkey with 2,023 m. the humber bridge was build in 1981, so today it is 43 years old. it held the record from 1981 till 1998 when the Akashi Kaikyo bridge in Japan with a freespan of 1.991m was opend. In 2022 the bridge in turkey was opend.
Fantastic quality of the video! I appreciated all the details and the diagrams explaining things about the topology around the bridge and the history of that region. Kudos to you for the excellent work!🎉
A broken bungee rope is going to kill you whether you're jumping 600 metres or 15 metres. People even have died after falling from a first-floor window (second floor in the US).
Imagine working on this bridge. Clocking in for your shift. Grousing about the weather. Immersed in your todo list and forgetting for hours to take in the view, until --
@@Porter92 nope, i have a relative from CREC4 company which is a sister company with the bridge builder. The average worker salary with bonus annually for these high bridge projects is about 20k usd, which is pretty good considering the cost of living is quite low in china. In guizhou province you get a meal at a local cafe for like 2bucks, a two beds flat monthly rent for 100-200 usd, a brand new electric compact car for 7-10k
@@Porter92 The per capita income of Chinese people was $12608 in 2022, the construction workers got more. In my hometown Longyan, which is a tier 4 city in southeast of China, a McDonald's Big Mac costs about $1.6, a BYD hybrid car with a range of more than 2,000km costs about $13,000.
The way you are referring “GuiZhou” as “Land Of Demons”, is actually incorrect. The word “Gui” or “贵” here, means it is Noble or Precious, and not the 鬼 (ghost, demons)that you are saying… need to get the fact rite to avoid any misunderstanding…
Fantastic video! It’s my first time to know there’s such a magnificent project under construction in China even I’m a Chinese. Undoubtedly, it would be a spectacular bridge. But in my opinion, it might just be easier to migrate those residents out of the mountainous province of Guizhou.
Tribute to the author. Although this is a video introducing Chinese bridges, it is the best video I have ever seen introducing China's development, especially the comparison with previous ones and the in-depth analysis. It is a great video.
They can't seem to build roads and bridges at ground level that don't collapse when it rains. I don't think I want to travel on one high in the air. Thanks, i'm good.
Jeremy Clarkson, perhaps the world's most famous auto reviewer, visited China a year or so before the pandemic and gushed about its extensive highway system. "This is not easy terrain," he pointed out. Truer word was never spoken. Not only does China have the longest highway system, but the terrain is some of the most treacherous in the world, filled with canyons, glaciers, and rivers prone to flooding.
yeah this video: ua-cam.com/video/4-XDxCb92X4/v-deo.htmlsi=rq3DybJAlC_azFTM along with this music: ua-cam.com/video/Mub7WV0ZJ4E/v-deo.htmlsi=p6sRV6Wpkm3-r1jm Gave me the impression, that we are f**ked in the west. While we can't even build new, fix or maintain our own infrastructure.
Obviously don't compare to North America, everything is more expensive by something like a factor of x5 to x10. As for China in this case, it's economies of scale since they have built out 200+ bridges of similar make in that region. There is a lot that can be prefabbed and there isn't really a case for training, cost overruns, etc. The other big piece of help is that China tends to have a bunch of very specialized equipment for building bridges, such as the viaduct "printing" machines for their HSR.
Predominantly "limestone" rock. That can't be good. Just properly planting that bridge into limestone with potential earthquake activity couldn't be done on $280 million. Very interesting video and well done but that 280 figure doesn't sound right.
@@ConstantChaos1 how many millions of American gone homeless and how many children on food stamp there? Don't worry about the Chinse, you can't afford anything let along travel there, figure out your gender first lmao
@@ConstantChaos1 After seeing your remarks, I feel your ignorance. If I said that the quality of life of most people in China is better than yours, and that most Chinese people are richer than you, would you collapse? You don’t need to believe it, just remember what I said.
Thanks Mega Build...subbed, a refreshing style which looks at the project and informs. Good use of graphics and brill drone footage with credits given. If you are needing to look at projects in Scotland contact me as I am a freelancer based there.
Although the video is awesome and very informative, I want to make it clear that the main reason why I am commenting this is because of the way you credited the man who shared the information with you. Well done.
Because this isn't growth, it's using pointless infrastructure projects in a region where most people don't even have a friend who owns a car so the regional governments can use special financing vehicles to boost their GDP numbers do they meet the required levels set by Beijing. The people are starving and they are building megabridges where people don't even have cars or enough safe food to eat.
It’s really weird watching you talk with that pop screen blocking us from seeing your full face. You really don’t need that pop screen with todays modern microphones
$280M is the most reasonable price for a mega project ever. Insane to me some concept designers be saying their gonna need $280B for their "mega projects" lol
Not to mention the bar at the top of the tower- hmmmm alcohol and altitude served with a side of attitude- oh wait there's more, walk this way 800M over and jump !
In ten years the locals will be fed up with the Disneyland atmosphere and long for the days on low congestion. My hats off to the engineers on this project but guess I'd like to see such a beautiful place not end up like going to Yellowstone and waiting in endless lines to see the park.
We have environmentalists trying to stop and delay and sue every project to balloon the costs x10. I think it's just Chinese people are more open minded to development, whereas people in the west are so comfortable, they just don't want things to change. There's also that in China you dont plan for opposition and you dont have opposition. So you can cut down the costs to the minimum amount of time, and just labor and materials.
Not really when you look at why they keep building megaptojects, its the only way for the outer provinces to meet beijing's GDP requirements, the locals don't even own cars (like less than half)
What do you think about the Huajiang Bridge? 🤔 And would you do the world's highest bungee jump?
Definitely sign me up!! Unless it was build tofu dreg style
Ill pass😂
Don't believe in Chinese gov so no
国家监督有豆腐工程？@@IdentityVibes
There was a time where I would’ve jumped at the chance (pun intended) to bungee there.
That time has passed.
$280M is sooo much lower than I was guessing.
I agree, I was thinking in the billions.
@@pudintain9656 Chinese labor and weak regulations makes it cheaper.
It's potentially a complete fabrication. It is China.
Our current officials are much less corrupt than before.
@@AL-lh2ht "Flexible" regulations make it more cost effecient.... Fixed it for you.
crediting the guy who helped you get info for the video at the start is great journalism
If Eric sees this, thanks Eric!
UA-cam is not 'journalism'. This bridge has been open since 2016. Old news, repackaged..
I guess. Sounds like something fox news would do.
280m is absolutely insane. Here in my home county of Australia, to even get a job like this off the ground, $280 million would be spent in red tape and approvals and permits and so on. Before shovel even met the ground
They gotta pocket some few millions here and there first 😂
no，at least 2800m😂
The same for the U.S.
communist labor
Same here in the UK!
People talk about the fast growth of Dubai, but China has killed it the last 30 years in every way possible.😮
U can't compare china with Dubai they have so much oil to build a concrete jungle
Man I’m getting old, I still remember the Jean Claude van damme movies in china and still think china is still like that. You can argue how china got here but damn this is getting serious impressive! Especially considering countries like Dubai basically did a money glitch. I would not be surprised if these projects are 100% Chinese without any sort of foreign help or aid. No wonder trump won the elections because china is becoming a real problem
Dubai didn't grow
Just oil money for rich people 90 percent of dubai is foreigner
Workers are foreigner
Teachers are foreigner
Students are foreigner
And Dubai doesn't even have industry
The country did nothing for natives ( other than some sheikhs )
But china nah mate different story
Dubai just happnen to have oil beneath its land, while China grew from nothing to well.... everything.
@Mandom007 oil isn't everything! Venezuela has a lot and so does yemen. The leadership in abu dhabi deserve credit also dubai barely has any oil, abu dhabi has much more yet dubai is much more well known with more money and less oil
I wanted to laugh when I saw the comments saying that Chinese workers are underpaid. In fact, in such field projects, the average Chinese worker can get about 12K RMB after tax, which is about 1.7K USD. It doesn't look like much, right? But it's enough for this average worker to buy a Chinese-made EV SUV with 9-10 months' salary, without a loan. This car is also sold in Europe and Australia, it's called BYD alto 3 ~
PPP scale - purchasing power parity and yes it’s very important .
@@muckle8 That's even more PP than I've got
@AxionSmurf 😃
I am also Chinese. This type of job is very dangerous, which is why it has a salary of 12,000 yuan. Ordinary workers generally do not earn this income; only technical jobs do.For example, a painter
So you don’t have any budge for living and your family right? Seems like a naive Chinese college student answer.
Oh, I really enjoyed this type of narration, finally without going through all those politically correct terms like CCP regime, evil communist party, which I really had enough of most Western media keeping running same narrations or narratives. But this video is very professional and very objectively purely discuss the reasons, the background, the history all around and relate to the bridge itself. This is called professional journalism.
Yeah, I agree. There are many valid criticisms to be made about the Chinese government, but that is true about all governments and not neccesary in a video like this, especially considering that these types of videos don't talk about any other countries government. I think it's in large part just the West's desire to hold onto a superiority complex and exceptionalism, as well as hold up ideas of some kind of fundamentally different "Oriental" aspect.
you have no idea what the word politically correct means.
@@adinrichter6034 buddy, name the western nations that have hundreds of thousands in reeducation camps.
Those terms would actually be politically incorrect
@@AL-lh2ht No he's right it is politically correct because republicans now have a majority when it comes to the culture war nonsense.
Eastern Asian economies are insane: China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong. People there are just smart, disciplined and diligent enough😮
China, s.korea, japan, Singapore.
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are part of china.😊
Don´t compare China the thief masters with all the other asian nations.
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Nahh China just has slave labor and no safety procedures.
That’s get that clear. China’s China only. What Japan and Korea have done are not even close compared to what China has accomplished.
China's infrastructure is severely underrated 😫
Thinking same
severely overcapacity
Not really. It doesnt last.
@@AnotherPointOfView944 Yeah!Tell your politician forget China Please.
@@AnotherPointOfView944 yeah just like the hard rock building in new orleans am i right
I’ve traveled near this region and it is spectacular. I was expecting this bridge to cost way more. Whatever the cost, it’ll be worth it. Hopefully it’ll bring prosperity to the local people. China is an amazing, safe and friendly place to visit, just don’t break the law there.
Cheap labour & undercutting on costs. If it's rushed, which China does all the time, then you won't get quality.
@ Thanks Felecia
The expressway will not allow pedestrians or bicycles to pass, but I really hope that a non-motorized lane can be reserved on this bridge. In that case, I think I might take a plane to visit this bridge. I hope the Chinese designers can meet this requirement. desire😁
@@seltaeb3302 If the logic circuits short out please ask PPP on GOOGLE! 😂😂
@@seltaeb3302 lol...I know it's sour. it's like your country can build shite lol
How can you not respect the Chinese? Even if you are a westerner. I mean...whatever you say about them. Regardless of if you agree or not, how can you look at that and not marvel? It takes your breath away. The things China has done the past 30 years is nothing short of spectacular. In almost every aspect, almost unimaginable. Truly a miracle of mankind. Well done man. Well done. Shine bright China! The world is watching.
What can be achieved when you don't spend all your taxes to fund foreign wars and enrich a handful of billionaires.
@@rekocastren923 agreed
The CCP and it´s propaganda machine paying you of course...
Respect a country that uses torture daily?
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Because 90% of everything they make either falls apart or is outright fake. Their apartment buildings fall over, their stadiums and malls collapse, the multiple poisonous mushroom scandals, their rotten Jinhua ham, the fake baby formula scandal, their DDVP pickled vegetables containing industrial-grade salt, counterfeit alcohol and medication, their soy sauce made from human hair, their EVs explode, the 300 school children that were poisoned in 2006, contaminated fish, infected snail meat, using sewage in tofu manufacturing, their phones that either catch fire or spy on you or both, their low-quality solar panels that only work half the time and so on, etc., etc.
People should probably take their "respect" for China with a huge pinch of salt. Just make sure it isn't chinese salt because it'd probably be fake and kill you outright.
America can’t build an overpass for 280 million
It's crazy that 23 years ago America had the 2 highest bridges in the world; The Royal Gourge Bridge in Colorado and the New River Gourge Bridge in West Virginia. Now they are 26th and 34th respectively and dawfed by this this monster of a bridge.
Yeah but ours require ecological surveying, market analysis, paying people for the land taken, pay a "liveable" wage (not that America has increased the fed minimum wage in 16 years) build to code so it wont be in disrepair within 5 years, and actually builds with a purpose beyond using special financing vehicles to make the regional GDP meet the requirements set by Beijing even though it lead to a real-estate crash in China that's just getting pounded into the dirt with these sorts of projects.
So like I'd rather pay more for a quality bridge that actually goes somewhere and not just a prop to use to cook the books
But in fairness, China doesn't have to pay the workers $40 per hour either. That's just 1 reason among many others.
@@chuckdraper7776 yes. things in China very expensive as same as America😎
@@chuckdraper7776 $40 per hour is nothing, compare with $4b environmental assessment.
Construction isn’t the issue….maintenance is. There’s reason the 7 great wonders of the world no longer exist.
Maintenance is the killer, unless this has a 100 year design life.
Then maintenance is a generational killer...
Nothing lasts forever.
The seven wonders of the world are still on display in China after more than two thousand years, right?
The country is amazingly beautiful. The infrastructure they are building is equally amazing. Nice work
Beautiful, but with no freedom.
Yeah and it all falls apart because the quality is dung.
@@DNOPLAYSGAMES Yes, the bridge you see collapsed two months ago.
@@IanHausser You are right. Chinese people carry electronic positioning with them every day and move within the allowed range. Once they exceed the limit, they will go to jail.
Awesome video and great moderation, I really enjoyed it! Keep up the good work and cheers from Austria :)
The investment in the bridge itself is $279. 72 million, with an additional $140 million invested to build a tourism service area that includes a five-star hotel, a highway rest area, a tourism service center, and more.
DAMN
I'm going there, for sure!
It looks amazing and the scenery is incredible. Can't wait to experience the local hospitality.
Please tell us about your trip if you do go
@@mechannel7046 where do you work bro?? In Tibet side our others part?? I also wanna go with an taxi 🚕🚖😂
@@mechannel7046 I think I only have to use 120-200 yen 💴💹 right?? If budget is much bigger than this then I won't go.... simple 🥱🤣🤣 eating foods with these money 💰 feels much amazing for me 😋🤭.
there are plenty of travel video to Guizhou. search up this place called 'jiu zhai gou' in Guizhou. its heaven on earth@@mechannel7046
There is much about the country that is amazing but the local hospitality ain't one of them
Zhou is pronounced like the name Joe
Gu chow ahaha
dro
Zhou Biden
Definitely taking my kids to see this bridge in the next few years! looks sick!
I wouldnt allow my children anywhere near a project built by chinese contractors are you insane?
Good luck I think your baby 🐥🍼 aren't even born yet 😂 your still thinking about having baby this year and then go few years later LoL what an wired plan 😮.
How come you are bothered by his words?
@@fargr5926 thats what i thought, weird right. im thinking a rather aggressive bot lol
Good luck, these sorts of projects don't last long since they are actually just ways to make local governments appear to have met the GDP requirements from Beijing but are actually just debt traps
There’s no way that’s the best mic placement for you my g.
Yet another great video, so well presented, love the historical background to this magnificent bridge in China, and the jokes too, keep up the great works sir
I don't even know about this Megaproject and I live just in the adjacent province. Domestic news like this always hidden from my daily life and social media news. What a life!
Absolutely positively NO to bungee jumping off that bridge!
HAHHAHAA, good one :)
I want a try!!!! who else?
Only Base Jumpers! 🪂
Forget about the bungee jumping... I was out at the glass floors :)
I saw with my own eyes there were only 1 guy driving the compactor and 2 guys layering the sides of the road when the Chinese rebuilt a portion of the N12 road in Laos. It's mind boggling.
More cars and roads, this is exacly what the world needs.
As a Chinese, I admire that you can make such a real and detailed video about China‘s infrastructure. Thank you for your efforts.❤
抖音上说的，油管卑微人，天天在油管谢这个那个😀
@ 少看点负能量垃圾内容吧，你看你都说不出人话了。🤣
Wow! Those 12 minutes felt like 2 minutes. Great Work
我正在同时建造一座超级复杂的火车站+地铁车站，老实说工作量非常大、难度也很大，但是很有成就感
Looks utterly terrifying, but good luck China.
the construction was finished already
@@galahadray these are fools 😂 don't let them wake up.....they doesn't even know how huge is china got by attacking 我們家控制西藏和整個西安省 😋
@@galahadray 兄弟，我不是開玩笑，但是那些西藏的女人非常漂亮，只剩下一些了，但她們的美麗不是開玩笑，夥計，但其他人都逃到了印度，我們的政府應該把她們帶回來。
@@supergirlfromheaven8421 it's very easy for native Chinese speakers to tell that you are using a translation software. Stop pretending you are Chinese.
Ain't no way that will cost only $ 280 million
There are amazing differences in the prices of things made in China compared to things made in other countries. I have been checking the availability and prices of gate drivers. These are things about 6mm (quarter inch) square with eight metal connecting pins and some amazing electronic wizardry inside, for turning transistors in a high-power circuit on and off. For gate drivers of western brands you are looking at one, two or three US dollars each. For Chinese brands the prices are around five or six US CENTS. How is this possible? Some people have told me the Chinese components are fakes/rejects/dummies that do not work. I bought some and tested them. Guess what? They work perfectly. I have also bought a Chinese thermal imaging camera that cost one-sixth the price of the well-known western brand and gives a far superior image, in which you can easily identify individual components on a printed circuit board rather than seeing blurry blobs of colour.
The Gordie Howe International Crossing being built between Detroit and Windsor Ontario has a main span of 2,799' carrying vehicle traffic with 151’ of clearance for shipping on the Detroit River. The current cost is 6.7 Billion and is scheduled to open next year after a delay due to covid.
One tower is worth 280 million. Somebody did the math wrong. China imports iron ore!
$280m is loose change in China's infrastructure terms.
Great research and presentation. Well done.
Yaxi Expressway is pretty terrifying, but this suspended bridge. My hands and feet are sweaty as balls just by watching this
Lmao🤣
Very high quality, informative and well put together video.
1:43 the longest suspension bridge in the world is the "1915 Çanakkale Bridge" in Turkey with 2,023 m. the humber bridge was build in 1981, so today it is 43 years old. it held the record from 1981 till 1998 when the Akashi Kaikyo bridge in Japan with a freespan of 1.991m was opend. In 2022 the bridge in turkey was opend.
Thank you. When I heard this I did a double take as I remember as a kid my dad taking us to see the Humber bridge shortly after it opened.
Yeah, I had to look it up, I was actually shocked that a bridge longer than the Akashi Kaikyo bridge was built, I didn't know that, pretty cool
But the support columns aren't as tall as frances at over 1000 foot . Ok 625m road height but not supports.
@@oddsandwindsocks5905 Мост Русский - опоры 1053 фута.
Thank you for this informative and well-researched vid - it puts it a head above the rest
Fantastic quality of the video! I appreciated all the details and the diagrams explaining things about the topology around the bridge and the history of that region. Kudos to you for the excellent work!🎉
$280M yet it costs $500M to construct one phase of one BRT line in a US city like Minneapolis.
They'd better put 10meter high siderails on that thing
масса увеличится и парусность.
A broken bungee rope is going to kill you whether you're jumping 600 metres or 15 metres. People even have died after falling from a first-floor window (second floor in the US).
Imagine working on this bridge. Clocking in for your shift. Grousing about the weather. Immersed in your todo list and forgetting for hours to take in the view, until --
And getting paid probably $25 a day in US Dollars
@@Porter92probably a bit lower lmao
@@Porter92 nope, i have a relative from CREC4 company which is a sister company with the bridge builder. The average worker salary with bonus annually for these high bridge projects is about 20k usd, which is pretty good considering the cost of living is quite low in china. In guizhou province you get a meal at a local cafe for like 2bucks, a two beds flat monthly rent for 100-200 usd, a brand new electric compact car for 7-10k
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 see my comment above, a bit first hand info from CREC4 family member
@@Porter92 The per capita income of Chinese people was $12608 in 2022, the construction workers got more. In my hometown Longyan, which is a tier 4 city in southeast of China, a McDonald's Big Mac costs about $1.6, a BYD hybrid car with a range of more than 2,000km costs about $13,000.
The way you are referring “GuiZhou” as “Land Of Demons”, is actually incorrect. The word “Gui” or “贵” here, means it is Noble or Precious, and not the 鬼 (ghost, demons)that you are saying… need to get the fact rite to avoid any misunderstanding…
The name may historically be 鬼 (ghost, demons); which makes sense.
@@PengKuanEm历史书里从没有这种记载，你这是正儿八经的用英文胡说八道啊
Oh stfu about pronunciation... you don't hear us Aussies complaining. 🙄🙄🙄
Oh stfu about pronunciation... you don't hear us Aussies complaining. 🙄🙄🙄
@@patooi2009 thank you for your information which is well documented.
Fantastic video! It’s my first time to know there’s such a magnificent project under construction in China even I’m a Chinese. Undoubtedly, it would be a spectacular bridge. But in my opinion, it might just be easier to migrate those residents out of the mountainous province of Guizhou.
This video had so much more info than I expected to get, keep up the great work!
omg the scenery where this bridge stands is beautiful
Tribute to the author. Although this is a video introducing Chinese bridges, it is the best video I have ever seen introducing China's development, especially the comparison with previous ones and the in-depth analysis. It is a great video.
there must be some amazing potential for mountain biking in that province, along with data centers and hydro power.
Love the facial expression of the guy at 11:05
They can't seem to build roads and bridges at ground level that don't collapse when it rains. I don't think I want to travel on one high in the air. Thanks, i'm good.
Thank you for not staining that beautiful land. Teach your children to stay away too.
Excellent video!! Thanks to you and Eric!
Jeremy Clarkson, perhaps the world's most famous auto reviewer, visited China a year or so before the pandemic and gushed about its extensive highway system. "This is not easy terrain," he pointed out. Truer word was never spoken. Not only does China have the longest highway system, but the terrain is some of the most treacherous in the world, filled with canyons, glaciers, and rivers prone to flooding.
yeah this video:
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along with this music:
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Gave me the impression, that we are f**ked in the west. While we can't even build new, fix or maintain our own infrastructure.
I'm calling BS on $280M. Even $1B would be insanely cheap for something this scale. Then again, everything in the USA is overpriced AF, so who knows.
Obviously don't compare to North America, everything is more expensive by something like a factor of x5 to x10. As for China in this case, it's economies of scale since they have built out 200+ bridges of similar make in that region. There is a lot that can be prefabbed and there isn't really a case for training, cost overruns, etc. The other big piece of help is that China tends to have a bunch of very specialized equipment for building bridges, such as the viaduct "printing" machines for their HSR.
Video 101: Don't cover your mouth with the microphone.
Wow! I've been living in China since 2013 and have literally seen its infrastructure blossom in real time. I'll definitely be visiting this bridge!
Foreigners get out of China
$280 Million???? That won't even pay the labor.
They are probably paid in spare change
@@_Mav 中国建筑工人薪水不低。
Its probably slave labor of prisoners
@@timothybayliss6680 so redicilous！！！totally fake news！！
@@timothybayliss6680 美国监狱囚犯才是强制劳动
Predominantly "limestone" rock. That can't be good. Just properly planting that bridge into limestone with potential earthquake activity couldn't be done on $280 million.
Very interesting video and well done but that 280 figure doesn't sound right.
I believe there is little China can't achieve. Your video is awesome ❤
A balanced economy or a population that isn't starving seems to be out of their grasps
@@ConstantChaos1 how many millions of American gone homeless and how many children on food stamp there? Don't worry about the Chinse, you can't afford anything let along travel there, figure out your gender first lmao
@@ConstantChaos1 After seeing your remarks, I feel your ignorance. If I said that the quality of life of most people in China is better than yours, and that most Chinese people are richer than you, would you collapse? You don’t need to believe it, just remember what I said.
@wenluo6617 that's just untrue my dude. You need to come back to reality lmfao.
@@ConstantChaos1 You can call it a lie and living in your own Truman world is actually pretty good.
Well done 👍✅, can't wait for your next China video!
Bungee jump? I'm not even comfortable opening my eyes from a height of 600+ meters. Unless it's from the window seat on an airplane.
OkthanksI
height is not the biggest deal, span is more impressive.
they are building longest now,张靖皋长江大桥 on yangzi river near Shanghai, 2300meter,
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You are a very good narrator, love listening to!
谢谢Eric，谢谢Megabuilds，我一个中国人才知道这个项目😂
Hello,Chinese person!
Can you drink the chai on your knees to survive in a cave collapse
@@verlinswarey507 hello, my bro.
@@AxionSmurf You need to find out by yourself
Thank you Eric! Beautiful drone footage
Watching from Malawi. Awesome stuff
Love Malawi 🇲🇼
Thanks Mega Build...subbed, a refreshing style which looks at the project and informs. Good use of graphics and brill drone footage with credits given. If you are needing to look at projects in Scotland contact me as I am a freelancer based there.
Thanks!
I had to check out your etymology of Guizhou and yes, you’re correct. Gui has such a different meaning now.
He makes me think of Wilson from the show “Home Improvement” with that mic!
Wow! This is fantastic and interesting. Love learning and watching this video. Never know this was going on.
In my country that would be at least a billion
And probably for good reason
что за страна?
Imagine being the crane operator working on that height, hat's off to all them brave skilled workers on that bridge 👍
They do everything besides giving their residents proper housing
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Just like America
Although the video is awesome and very informative, I want to make it clear that the main reason why I am commenting this is because of the way you credited the man who shared the information with you. Well done.
Why isn’t this being talked about more often? This is insane! The growth that Guizhou is seeing right before our eyes left me stunned.
Because the whites will not happy if talking like this , and they will get mad if talking too much.
Because this isn't growth, it's using pointless infrastructure projects in a region where most people don't even have a friend who owns a car so the regional governments can use special financing vehicles to boost their GDP numbers do they meet the required levels set by Beijing. The people are starving and they are building megabridges where people don't even have cars or enough safe food to eat.
Man, seeing this makes me jealous. I want my country to start building like this again.
It would be better if your face was not obscured by the microphone.
So the restaurant will be at around 900m from the lowest point, via the glass elevator! That is absolutely fantastic
I can't wait to go visit and do the bungee jumping , ❤👍
I thoroughly enjoyed your video!
That's really distracting the way you hide behind the mic. Is that even you speaking?
The color of the cables could be better
It’s really weird watching you talk with that pop screen blocking us from seeing your full face. You really don’t need that pop screen with todays modern microphones
$280M is the most reasonable price for a mega project ever. Insane to me some concept designers be saying their gonna need $280B for their "mega projects" lol
Glassfloor on a construction designed to flex with the wind? Nope thank you.
Not to mention the bar at the top of the tower- hmmmm alcohol and altitude served with a side of attitude- oh wait there's more, walk this way 800M over and jump !
In ten years the locals will be fed up with the Disneyland atmosphere and long for the days on low congestion. My hats off to the engineers on this project but guess I'd like to see such a beautiful place not end up like going to Yellowstone and waiting in endless lines to see the park.
280m that’s nothing some sht bridge in Canada is 4b with another 3 with over budget
We have environmentalists trying to stop and delay and sue every project to balloon the costs x10. I think it's just Chinese people are more open minded to development, whereas people in the west are so comfortable, they just don't want things to change.
There's also that in China you dont plan for opposition and you dont have opposition.
So you can cut down the costs to the minimum amount of time, and just labor and materials.
@ yeah and bridge will take 7 years to make I hate stupid liberals here
Awesome content man!! Working on that shit would be an insane experience
Prediction: It'll be unusable within 10/yrs and resting at the bottom of that valley within 25.
(tick tock tick tock)
What animal are you?
Still hitting the bottle I see.
Guizhou - you need to pronounce it kind of like Gway-Joe.
Bro! The microphone blocking the lower third of your face is a huge mistake!
This bridge is going to change my life!
no country has more tofu projects than Indian who has 5 bridges collapsed within 10 days.
They sure have opportunities in the future to break their records, more in less time range.
The projection 😂
@@ParkerAt941stop projecting
Indian roti bridges.
@@markchan8110 Curry* bridges
This 3 year ongoing project is cheaper than marvel movies
scary!😮
The fact they managed to put a tower crane there is already impressive on its own for me
China is just really wonder of the world.
Not really when you look at why they keep building megaptojects, its the only way for the outer provinces to meet beijing's GDP requirements, the locals don't even own cars (like less than half)
Just unbelievable engineering, great tourist destination!
I thought that Apple was getting out of China.
You are thinking Google. China is still a major market and manufacturing hub for Apple.
Trump forced Apple to stay in China.
youd think he'd look up the pronounciation of Guizhou before he recorded this video
More China-related videos, please 🙏