Chongqing - China's Secret Metropolis

[@markvale3482]

I don't know why so many people say it's the most polluted city in china.please do some research.the mist you see is not polluted and because located by the river and its geographic feature ,chongqing is called the Mist City.And you can check the AQI.Its air quality is better than Beijing,Xi'an,Chengdu and most other big cities in China.So before you can make your judgement about a place you've never been,please be open and patient enough to find solid facts.

[@chengjieyao3846]

+Mark Vale 成都的污染确实比成都大。 我在成都。

[@luigymrobles]

+Mark Vale The most poluted city in china and in the world is Linfen

[@lulukobe8nba]

+Mark Vale The big cities are more or less polluted for developing countries. And You made a very clear point.

[@chocolatetang]

+Mark Vale yes, it's mostly fog not smog, for anyone dont believe that, go there and have a look yourself

[@moonelf473]

Mark Vale you can tout the top 10 or 20 most polluted cities in China, if that's what you need..but that's not just city river mist..as the pollution is *very bad* there, too!! and that is a *FACT.* how you can deny this with, not only your eyes, but also with all the constant, incessant construction and other industrial things going on there [plus air and water purity test results] defies logic, as well as common sense! where is yours?? these industries, esp., in china *are a huge problem* that affects the whole world at this point! so, what's your deal, with you so heavily over-identifying with this city?? as, the city, it's not *you.* but too many westerners seem to have an insatiable need to defend other countries and cities, including so many in the far east, that they deny facts that are not positive..it's as if they're in a cult, so often...just smh.

[@wimvaassen932]

I was in China several times but not in Chongqing .. Is visited bigger cities as Bejing, Xi'an, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Hainan Island, and I felt like a delphin in the ocean. I like China and people. They are practically and kind when you show the same behaviour to them .. Many visits I like to make in future to learn about his culture, traditions and universal roots of mankind .. Xx and hugs to Chinese people I met ..

[@wimvaassen932]

Thank you for your information. I think it also depends on what you compare.

[@MrStevenAttila]

Minghan Gong Shanghai is the biggest city proper in the world, and then comes Beijing(in China), but the municipality of Chongqing it's much bigger than the municipality of Shanghai for example.

[@goatfader]

Minghan Gong the urban area of wuhan is bigger than that of chonqing

[@michaeldengg]

I mean im not sure Xi'an Wuhan, Macau and Hainan are bigger than ChongQing...

[@MsBullet78]

this video reminds me of my trip to China. The people are wonderful, and very kind its like they have a deeper sense of community, and work ethics that is compared to years ago in the States. When I was out there I also was in awe on how much business is thriving. It kinda reminded me of the States back in the 80's when I was a child. Busy, east paced, and so much family orientated businesses and things to do. I saw how happy the retired people are there, dancing, singing, even saw a older lady in her 80's playing hacky sack. I do have to say one thing I'm kinda proud of my Chinese background. I've been studying more on China's history and language, being part Chinese they speak to you in the language and chuckle at you when they find out you don't live there and can't speak to well. ;) I can't wait to go back to visit.

[@highvoltage47]

I was there last month and the first thing I have to say is that it is MASSIVE. Makes LA look like a rural area. Stand on the river bank, and there are high rises as far as your eyes can see in either direction. Very modern and clean, and surprisingly not that polluted. Also, did not see a single hobo.

[@jaimeeclair8999]

Glad to see a Westerner speaking a dialect of Chinese (rather than expecting non-westerners to speak English). It always makes a great impression on the locals when they hear foreigners speaking their language.

[@adweezy]

My friend and former Futibol teammate Christian put this together about the city I lived in from 2011-2013. Finally got around to watching it, fantastic primer for anyone interested in the other China.

[@variousviews]

even just being able to show the footage of that 92 year old woman would've made this whole film worth it. a commendable effort, i thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@iamtheguitar]

Apart from all those Chinese commenters thinking foreigners hate China: I lived in Chongqing and I loved it. I was received very nice and heartwarming by Chongqingren and had a great time there. No matter if you're Chinese, American, Russian or (as me) German: Loving you're country is a great thing but insulting other countries basically makes you an asshole. I hope China and Germany continue their growing relations as I would love to go to China more often.

[@wangtaian]

go on to twitter now and search for keyword china. You tell me if all foreigners china

[@mebeasensei]

The Japanese bombed Chongqing 268 times, firstly on February 18, 1938, and lastly, on August 23, 1943. In these raids, which lasted five and a half years, 11,889 people died. The worst raid occurred on June 5th, 1941, when 4000 people suffocated or were poisoned as they hid in tunnels to avoid the terror bombing. Four moths later, the US decided to stop importing aircraft parts to Japan. It was the first embargo - one in a series that would lead to the rationalization that Japan would bomb Pearl Harbor. As the allies did in Germany and Japan, the Japanese targeted civilians. It as the capital of China at the time. It is a small number compared to the number of civilians that died in terror bombing throughout ww2 - March 9-10, 1945, more than 100,000 civilians were burned to death in Tokyo in 24 hours alone. Similar stories for Hamburg, Dresden, countless cities across Germany. London..the Spanish civil war, the list goes on, but each one is just as vile. As soon as it was possible to mass a significant number of aircraft over a civilian target and drop bombs, it happened.

[@baiyueheart236]

@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO americans only started to actively support China after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Before that time they were mostly watching.

[@pslaw]

I can't believe it. Well done, man! You shame all the professional journalists!! Great job.

[@hotgirlsarehot]

Ditto. He put Discovery Channel and History Channel to shame. One tried to pass a fictional documentary about mermaids as being real, and we have another that has airs shows about aliens and UFOs.

[@ParkerAt941]

love the way you present the city, deep and insightful towards ordinary Chong Qing people's life. Salute. The best part is the smile on a 95 year old lady's face when she told the story of war history. She is a living Ursula in the book of "A hundred years of solidarity".

[@taranchenkoigor]

Like I said before, if you want to hear truth about China in US, listen to people who actually live there.

[@minatozakisquirrel363]

+GuyKnife I've been there and in my opinion it's literally just like living in America (or the west in general, except their driving sucks). There are huge malls, restaurants, people enjoy life there. And China has their own version of youtube (not exactly the same) called youku, they have their own social media like wechat and weibo, etc. And a large majority of chinese feel that the government is actually doing the best for their country. For the people who speak out against the government, well I can't argue that that's not the best idea

[@CrunchyButtBurger]

^This is how stupid the average Westerner is. Quite sad.

[@minatozakisquirrel363]

Crunchyburgers I'm stupid by stating my observations of the country, and also stating a proven statistic? OK 😩

[@CrunchyButtBurger]

ThatTwiceFanboy I'm agreeing with you, and responding to the other delusional idiot.

[@jusbinjiang8483]

Your world is so small

[@ColinDyas]

Thanks Christian for posting a very interesting and well made film My wife & I visited C in the summer of 1985 to get a boat through the Yangtze’s three gorges. We were backpacking around the country. The boat office was a shabby place on the prominence where the Jialing meets the Yangtze. No one spoke English, I spoke no dialect, but amazingly a local girl in the office spoke fluent French. She advised a several day wait for a boat, so we moved on. Now the gorges have gone, lost to a hydro dam. We stayed in an annex of Peoples Assembly Hall. It was very basic. As for the city I recall sticky heat akin to walking in a bus exhaust, toilets where you communally squatted over a drain, basic housing, a new but small shopping mall with few occupied shops, dim street lights, serge suits, very few cars, and a fascinating area of single story wooden shops overlooking the Jialing River where I found some second hand books in English. It was not a place to hold the traveller (compared to other parts of mid 80’s China) and we moved on but it was its own place. Now it seems any place In 1985 we only saw two high-rise building in China; the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou and a new hotel being built in Nanjing. As for Pujiang (Shanghai) it was paddy fields Later in life I was involved in the regeneration of Liverpool, so the film references to economic growth and urbanisation were of great interest. I suggested we make use of similar factors to develop Liverpool, but to no avail. The bureaucracy and control factors are much stronger in Liverpool than in China!! Its odd but true Get in touch if you want. I have some interesting China links, and was for a while part of the 2010 Liverpool-Shanghai Global Expo Team. Best wishes

[@xMoac]

Its sick to read some of these comments,the Japanese FASCISTS slaughtered Chinese by the millions far more Chinese died then in Europe during WW2. I wish the best for China and its people, I hope you rise in glory and outshine Japan in every aspect.

[@zhousophie9866]

Thanks, we will.

[@illiiilli24601]

Offtopic,but weren't the Soviet losses alone about one million less than China's

[@havocrein]

***** no more crazy than western leaders, and no more shitty than other countries of the same level of development stage.

[@havocrein]

***** What I stated are based on fact, yours purely on opinion, whos the ignorant one is pretty clear. Then again, people basicly brainwashed from the birth to belive in the politicalcorrectness and superiority of their society form are almost impossible to change their clouded opinions.

[@havocrein]

***** Chinese leaders today are by far more responsible than most western leaders who uses populism and corporate wealth to get on and hold on power, never hisitate to use violence, force and economic warfare to subdue opposing countries and people, yet you call Chinese leaders crazy? Why dont you just give us a break with you political correct opinions. Btw, did you really know how dirty most western nations were when in the same development stage as China are in today?

[@mastaklass]

As an Australian teacher working in another of China's fast-growing cities, Zhengzhou, I found this video a fascinating insight into a city I'd heard about but knew practically nothing.

[@jingyunlee6584]

As a native resident of Chongqing, I have to admit you know way more about Chonqing than I do. :P

[@jimmypoker111]

hahahahahahahah

[@cocodriloco7780]

I know how that feels... I know more about New York than about my home city Los Angeles...

[@Joseph565112]

I'm sorry.

[@jgordon7719]

Outstanding work. CBS and NBC need to take notes

[@samkeyho4200]

The best part is people seems to be happy.

[@yunqingchen91]

Have you ever been to Chongqing?

[@danielyu6399]

you forgot to take your pills

[@carlosespino0227]

+Yunqing Chen what do you mean?

[@marconewman7202]

+carlos cooking Think he was talking to that guy with the long comment above. Chongqing is a great city though I only spent my time there in the upper class during my exchange. But I like how it is built and more than that I met some of the nicest people I've ever seen right there amongst 30 million. Going back there next summer :)

[@yuanruichen2564]

It really depends on the personality of a region. For example, in rich area like Kiangsu, they do not smile often and thy are never satisfied. Chongqing people enjoy lives.

[@christianhenrik]

Hey, guys, thanks a lot for all the kind words. I had no Idea the film would be so warmly received. This is my first film of any kind, ever, and your words are really motivating to me. My name is Christian Henrik Nesheim. I'm a Norwegian and I live in Chongqing. I have some ideas for more films, but not so much time. But if someone knows how to film/edit (which I am not good at) I would like to work with you. I can do the research, write the script and do the talking. I'd love to make more films

[@jenn1marsh]

Great documentary! Always love to see a filmmaker in China who knows the language. Makes such a difference.

[@samchien474]

Dude, very nice job. However, regarding the booming economy in Chongqing, you missed a very big part. In 2008, HP decided to move its plant to Chongqing to build up 20 million laptops per year. Later, ASUS, ACER followed HP's move. In about 2~3 years, Chongqing will become the world largest IT hub,producing up to 150 million laptops every single year. Because of this, the total of exports/imports has been growing at a stunning rate of 150% or more for the past couple of years. Next time, I suggest you to visit the Xi Yong Mircoelectronic Industrial Park, it is truely world class but barely known to 99.99% of the people in the west.

[@a9udn9u]

I grew up in a small town near Chongqing then went to college in Chongqing. This documentary is a relatively accurate reflection of the city and its people. Definitely invoked my homesick. Thank you for the great work!

[@YZOBEL5000]

is it a shit hole ? or is it nice there ?

[@a9udn9u]

To me it's one of the nicest places, but it's very subjective.

[@stephenferguson3861]

The city is well know as the capital of China during World War II when it was heavily bombed by the Japanese

[@danpt2000]

Stephen Ferguson I believe that Chinese capital during WW2 was Nanjing.

[@stephenferguson3861]

danpt2000 It was Chungking or as it is spelled today Chongqing it was the provisional capital of China during World War II You may be thinking of the "rape of Nanking" by the Japanese or as it is spelled today Nanjing? Nanking had been the provisional capital of China from 1927 until it was occupied in 1937 and a major massacre took place Chunking then became the provisional capital throughout World War II until 1946 Nanking or Nanjing as it is known today became the capital of the Japanese puppet state set up from 1940-1945 Chinese warlords also set up captials so it is complicated

[@danpt2000]

wait.. what? Nanjing was never Capital of any Japanese puppet state. The Japanese did set up a puppet state in Manchuria (North Eastern China) called ManChuGuo, with former emperor Puyi as a figurehead. But Nanjing was located in South East China.

[@stephenferguson3861]

danpt2000 Nanjing became the capital of the Japanese Chinese puppet state led by Wang Jingwei.a former Nationalist who sided with the enemy. Manchuria was set up as a separate nation which was actually a Japanese protectorate called by the Janpanese Manchukuo now spelled ManChuGuo and led by the last Qing Emperor Puyi as a Japanese puppet who had been deposed when the Chinese Republic was established in 1912 As Emperor of Manchukuo from just after the Mukden incident in 1931 until the Soviet invasion near the end of the war in 1945 The USSR returned Manchuria to the Chinese Communists who were involved in a Civil War with the Nationalists. It was used as a base for the Communists in the Civil War and also in the invasion launched by North Korea of South Korea in 1950 and more importantly for the Chinese intervention in October 1950. Try reading a comprehensive history of China in the period from 1912 to 1945.

[@danpt2000]

Stephen Ferguson Thanks for the copy and paste

[@VarietyGamerChannel]

So secret, only about 1 billion people know about it.

[@susanlv8540]

Haha, that is right.

[@juanmalozano4938]

VarietyGamer It's secret for most of the western people.

[@wowyzaoy]

hahaha...that's 1/7 people on this planet. some Americans can't even point out their own town on a map.

[@wowyzaoy]

@Tobby Isiba well... perhaps I've been watching too much American shows.

[@MarkLeel]

@@user-dm1uc6se1c listen to what was said. He if your not Chinese chances are you haven’t heard of it.

[@psychospin1]

This video helped me make the decision to apply for a job in Chongqinq. Now 3 weeks and two interviews later it looks like it's happening :D

[@psychospin1]

5 months later, here I am for over a month :D

[@psychospin1]

Lived there for 2 years, now I'm back in Europe. Chongqing is great to live. Really awesome.

[@mantapdjiwa9768]

Wow man you really update

[@Freechinesefreebekin]

Wow you are a activists LOL. Respect from China!

[@jvs333]

psychospin1 go on the Internet personal sites china personals find a friend in Chongqing it will help you once there. I was in Chongqing in 2008 I can tell you it is an amazing city very complex and interesting as well as beautiful a mixture of historical old and modern new. I spent 15 days there and it seemed everyday I was in a new city

[@KellyK]

Wow this entire country is exploding so rapidly... it's truly fascinating.

[@ab9840]

It was really a good video. I had heard about Chungking.(that's how they use to call it in English). It was once part of Sichuan province. Sichuan province has tended to be important in in China. Its subtropical. The peninsula part of Chongqing with its skyscrapers by the two rivers looks like Manhattan. With all that concrete it has to be hot in the summer. One thing, are the buildings earthquake proof. China gets some really strong earthquakes..

[@zemavomdonde6981]

XBOX ZUCCHININ

[@thestranger79x]

But you know what happens when you reach for the moon when you are not ready for cloud level yet?

[@leesanders6490]

They are setting themselves up for a collapse of biblical proportions, I'm afraid.

[@keynotedude]

This was a brilliant documentary. Fascinating, and lifting the lid on some of the smaller parts of extraordinary Chinese growth, which we in the West may often consider to be some sort of a mystery.

[@JJKSeattle]

Even more remarkable than Chongqing's growth is the fact that you've learned to understand & speak Mandarin!

[@gracewu4446]

Thank you for making this video! I love my city:) This is the place I grow up with, and I really miss it. Thank you!!

[@honeyfromthebee]

This was really well done; it more than answered all of my questions on Chongqing. Congrats on your mastering of the local dialect. Also, I can appreciate the nod to your home country with the intro music. ;)

[@jvs333]

I was in Chongqing in 2008 I can tell you it is one of the most vibrant and interesting cities I been to. Beautiful, complex, historical new, modern old, it is divided by two rivers Yangtze and the yellow and mountains making it seem like three cities. It is an awesome city I’ve always wished to go back

[@YYwb]

Marvellous POV video, much better than a lot of HD videos, and the depth of your video regarding researches on history and culture are amazing, you deserve much more subscribers than a lot of other channels, keep it up, well done and thanks!

[@Ottovonostbahnhof]

MAN! hat off to you and your remarkable work!!

[@MrTynanDraper]

Watched the whole doc and it is actually very well done and balanced. You show the real city without trying to photoshop the skies or polish it up. I'm going to Chongqing in April to go to the Canadian embassy. (they don't have on in Chengdu). It will be interesting. . hope we can find our way in time through a mega city like this one.

[@christianhenrik]

Hi, Clive. Thanks for noticing. I intentionally didn't focus on that, since that is exactly what every other China doc focuses on. I can understand it though, since uncovering negative aspects of a society is sort of the press' mandate, but there's nothing wrong with covering the good stories some times.

[@michaelclayton7367]

This video is well thought out and well done.Thank you for the time and energy that was spent in the making of Chonging.-China's secret metropolis .

[@Annie-px1nv]

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[@yallhowdy2071]

重庆的妹子，真的好看啊

[@swordwang5176]

李子坝梁山鸡，南山的泉水鸡，歌乐山辣子鸡，铁山坪椒麻鸡，南坪的黄焖鸡，长滨路洞子鲫鱼，科四路眼镜烧烤

[@EdgePitSwing]

Amazing! Who knew that if the local's spent their money locally, growth would occur!

[@OnlyTonito]

I was there a week ago, the city is beautiful and clean. The air is good, what you see in the pictures and film is mist from the rivers.

[@bunkenator]

Wow, well done, very informative. I've been hearing about Chonqing for ages but it seems almost nobody else has so thanks for this much needed documentary.

[@jennar7847]

Thank you for making this documentary. I will be teaching English in Chongqing very soon. Now I am so excited to go!

[@benjaminmartinez141]

Christian, you are a well versed young man, your historical knowledge seems incredible for such a young person. Thanks for sharing this video it was quite enlightening and well done. Keep them coming as I for have enjoyed immensely. Till next time.

[@scin3759]

I must admit the guy who made this film is a cool and cute westerner. What a breath of fresh air.

[@victorjackson150]

This city was probably the most well-known city in the US until the 1960's. I am glad to see it has come back.

[@huazhou7624]

The only thing I do not like in Chongqing is its summer just damn tooooooooooooo hot.

[@GamelutioN1]

Great presentation. Thanks for sharing! :-)

[@movdondon]

Thanks a lot for making and sharing such wonderful documentary of Chongqing where I spent seven years for studying in Chongqing university. Chongqing is a city that you may not like at the first sight but must fall in love with after you live there for some years. People there are forthright and hospital letting me miss a lot.

[@Alex-iw8tz]

Chongqing is part of my hometown.It will overtake New York in skyline a few years later.It is unknown because it develops so fast that it was not recorded in the world.It is one of the centre of Sichuanese of nearly 160 millions people.Another is Chengdu,Forget about the police powered economy city of the east.We are Sichuanese.

[@ckbond41]

What a well research and informative program. Thanks for making and sharing it with us all.. I would like to know how long have you learnt Chinese for before you moved or lived in China.

[@tigerqi6063]

come to Chongqing , I will invite you guys to eat hotpot

[@andysnape]

This is a great video. I lived in Chongqing for a year and it's great to see how much it changed in such a short time after I left in February 2011.

[@andysnape]

If you're interested in finding out more, I've written a book about my year working as an English teacher in Chongqing. It's called The Smog of Chongqing and is available on Amazon in both print and Kindle versions.

[@triyonohendry1747]

Amazing. China is very rich country. Many sky buildings are built in every cities.

[@JoseSalazar-mc2nk]

yeah that's true, every city in China is huge. everything is built huge on these chinese cities.

[@piehamcake1]

except the 800 million chinese making less than 3,000$ USD per year.

[@lulukobe8nba]

+piehamcake1 For now, it will be better and better cause the city is booming!

[@piehamcake1]

lulukobe8nba not any more i was in china this summer, beijing, changsha, chongquing, and hong kong, i saw many abandonded costruction projesct, and the outer cities and towns have alot of buildings and hardly any people, most are crammed in the mega cities. hong kong is booming

[@amphibiouscamel506]

+piehamcake1 On the contrary, Hongkong isn't booming that's why there was so much protests as many young people complain about the lack of opportunities. I also find it hard to believe that there are abandoned construction sites in Beijing, did you really go to China? or did you go there in your dreams?

[@asdasd-be5ww]

Modern architects have a gift for making buildings that makes you depressed.

[@youpol100]

asd asd I like the way the buildings look

[@ziconghuang7139]

While give me eye orgasm...

[@siddhisdharmatva3069]

I am from Tibet but studying and working in CHONGQING for almost eight years. My second hometown in China.

[@zliu4208]

I am from there and living in Australia now. This video was filmed in winter, when the air quality of the whole of China is very bad. Actually,Chongqing's air quality is far better than Beijing's. The pollution is really a sever problem of China. When comes to poverty, Chongqing has represented the large gap between the underclass and upper class of the whole China. My family is in the middle-class of that City and we have a totally different life from those struggling in the bottom of society. I used to have such experience when I was a child. My mom was from rural area and my father lost his job as a sailor in 1990s due to the economic reform. However, they started their own business in 1990s and have made a great success. i am always appreciate my parents'effort, which make it possible for me to study oversea. BUT I also found that the access to higher social classes for those from underclass is becoming narrower. They may work harder than my parents but have much less opportunity than my parents used to have when they started their career. Additionally,I also have no friends from underclass. In conclusion, the social classes of China is getting more and more shielded and stubborn. If this country want to have a better future, these social issues need to be solved....(Extra,Chongqing is one of the most gay-friendly city in China, because most of people there have more open attitude than those from other part of China. I am one of the Chongqing's gay,LOL)

[@chenzhao0451]

Very good work, There are tens of cities like Chongqing in China. Chongqing's status in China is like California in USA

[@samkeyho4200]

I don't think so because California has the best cities in US like Los Angeles and San Francisco. I think Chonqing is 2nd tier city in China, not yet 1st tier..

[@mike365fly]

It's definitely a 1st tier city, up there with Beijing and Shanghai

[@user-qf3hf9ey8d]

Guangdong province is more likely to California in the USA, they have Bay Area , We Chinese have Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Shenzhen,,Shunde,Zhongshan and Zhuhai and others All these cities are developed well and high GPD in China. and yup forget to mention Hongkong and Macau.

[@mandontfuckingtalktome5593]

Jobs_2000 not at all, mate

[@emkay3309]

Milton Friedman and its "Free to Choose" series was a role model, am I right? :) Good work mate!

[@christianhenrik]

A very astute observation :)

[@abhishekranjan5470]

is it a secret with millions of persons????

[@marconius101]

Did you knew about this city?

[@feraudosman1868]

I have been to China now about 8 times and visited many cities but not Chongquin. Thank you for the tour. My last trip to China I married a wonderful woman I met on-line. she is a nurse in Fenghua and we married in Wuhan. Now we are going through the inevitable immigration red tape. I downloaded an app on my iphone called SayHi to act as my translator....it is voice to voice so she used it as well...just like a universal translator from Star trek.

[@cincinnatislider]

This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. It captured the essence of Chonqing.

[@zliu4208]

i was shocked by some people's ignorance about China, but it is still related to that information block of communist government. China society is really not good and China is a place without democracy,but it is not the hell. If you went to some African country and North Korea, you would find out what the real poverty and autocracy is like.Not everyone live in a developed country like you do.Yes, I despise and criticsize autocratic government almost everyday, but I will never abandon my hometown.

[@havocrein]

You need to understand that people get their info from the mainstream media, which in turn dur to political correctness only report the negative side of red China(about 80% are negative), in so effectively brainwashing the masses into a dark and incomplete picture of the country. For ex. when talking about smog and air pollution people in the west will automatically think of China, but according to latest UN reports none of any of Chinas cities even make into the top 20 most polluted, the worst air pollution are mostly in India, new Dehli actually got much worse air pollution than Beijing. People are just often ignorant, and its not even their own fault, blame westen mainstream medias political correcness and biased media distortion.

[@MrKiasu83]

havocrein CIA -MEDIA...enuf said... anyway i was guilty too for swallowing CNN and BBC of course the zionist New York Times, etc... bottom line, China and the FREE countries(Cuba, Venezuela, Iran , N Korea , etc) cannot win in the FREE MEDIA, so just put up with the bullshit... YEAP, CHINA and N KOREA will collapse in 2015...

[@hollyliu1011]

Brant Liu more like the information block of the western media.

[@EdwinaTS]

A very interesting presentation.

[@rajTrondhjem10]

One of the most well made and thorough documentaries i have ever seen.. Very informative and entertaining at the same time.

[@cr0wland]

nice to see a docu that isn't focused on the property bubble or China's human rights violations. Well done!

[@mairolbukorwsky4532]

actually,,, china can give your a pretty nice life if you have a good source of income. good life is based on nutrition and spicy life.

[@MsBullet78]

I agree.

[@boyuan1458]

I am just utterly shocked by OP's chinese language skills.

[@nimacao7540]

I am from chongqing. I ve lived in singapore, Japan and LA. Chongqing is the best place for me.

[@kevinzhao4798]

nice! I'm a local chongqing people. 在你的视频里边， 有70%的场景我都知道。 有50%的地方我都去过。 你拍出了真实的重庆。well done!

[@alexjorge3]

I can't imagine this city was locate in the middle of China !!!.. Amazing, normally all super develop city, are locate by the Sea. I hope one day You Guys makes a documentary about the Engineering to keep that city flowing, (meaning the waste water (here in Norfolk Virginia, this is one of the 1st city in US and TODAY STILL GOT WATER ISSUE, any simple rain flood almost half of the city corners (the hydrants didn’t works properly) , the water supply, how they cook Electricity or Gas? how much Electricity that city absorb and for different social class how they relate.

[@wenliu6992]

many cities in hinterland China are like Chongqing,

[@itrthho]

Chongqing is a port city, mainly for the Yangtze River, a river that flows to the ocean. A great location to move products and people to the coast.

[@user-kf3bq3ly5g]

重庆的电力主要来源于三峡大坝和一些区域性的小发电站 当然 在重庆市区里最后一座发电站在今年会关停 以免污染空气 在郊区的火电站也将陆续更新设备

[@maggiewu765]

Alex Jorge usually we use gas to cook.

[@marke9036]

Alex Jorge You should check out Chengdu, same, if not more developed.

[@Michaelgoestofrance]

Never mind the hot women, where were the hot men? - well, at least we got to see the hot narrator... Joking aside, massive cities fascinate me but so far Chongqing looks like it has been making the same mistakes as São Paulo, Brazil, an urban sprawl of ugly concrete skyscrapers. Fair enough São Paulo is starting to improve the style of its buildings, looks like, hopefully, Chongqing is doing the same. One thing I'd be interested in, though, is a study on how much the life expectancy of newer residents is going to be reduced by due to fine-particle pollution. What measures are being put in place to maintain a healthy, breathable atmosphere in a city subject to hot summers and reliant on largely fossil-fuelled transportation (until that metro system is expanded)?

[@itrthho]

I used to live there. The newer skyscrapers are nicer. They don't make much money in Chongqing, so those concreate apartment buildings are built cheaper and in volumne.

[@Michaelgoestofrance]

Joe Young First of all, I'm not American. Secondly, if you had the intelligence, you'd see the initial comment for the tongue-in-cheek introduction that it is (albeit on a heterocentric comment made by the narrator) to a more open comment on the architecture of the city. Clearly, your bigotry stalled you and prevented you from seeing the main point of my observation. PS I'm British and 'fags' is the common term for cigarettes. In that sense, for the sake of the world's health, it would be good if everyone hated 'fags'.

[@alfredwan8574]

***** 天腐之都?

[@paulmurphy5118]

***** Someone said that men in China are gay because there are not enough woman for everyone. Is this true?

[@Michaelgoestofrance]

That's a very interesting hypothesis, but I somehow doubt it's true :) To be honest (I'm sure this is going to open another can of worms), with China's record on human rights, I'd be surprised if anyone actually even admitted to being gay at all...

[@theotherHOLLYWOOD]

I just returned from a few days in Chongqing. I found it a fascinating city, and your video considerably helped me understand the place. Thanks for a good job.

[@shawnzhu9027]

As a citizen of the city,I think foreigners must change their impression of China.Don't be influenced by medias,Chinese are not eating grass and riding horeses.China is more than Beijing,Shanghai and Guangzhou,many cities are much more prosperous than u imagine.Welcome everyone who loves and interests in China to have a visit to see the changes are taking place.

[@haochen111]

Marx is from England lol can't stop laughing.

[@deoproximo1572]

It shows no one takes Communism seriously anymore in China

[@bmortloff]

I suppose he lived there for over thirty years. Still...

[@TrustRyan]

Deo Proximo Agree. I was born and raised in China and I can attest to that. For the Chinese Communist Party, when they say "Socialism", they mean Totalitarian dictatorship.

[@bmortloff]

My workplace is a totalitarian dictatorship.

[@Kcberettam9ner]

***** Wow! Really?

[@djmz1969]

Wow! Looks like that movie Blade Runner.

[@bonanza06]

wow - well done! You're very talented at creating historical documentaries, especially for someone quite young! Cheers !

[@marconewman7202]

Fun Fact: If you get your drivers license in Chongqing and move out of the city (ex. Bejing) you gotta rework it because the traffic situation in Chongqing is so different to other chinese cities.

[@DWaterCooler]

That poor old woman

[@user-kr8tt1tz5r]

so china is a developing country!

[@otc0076]

Lenin. swedish. lol give 'em a break man, they dont gotta know. Soon we will have to learn more about China than any other place on earth!

[@yoda1740]

This is one of the best, most intimate documentary on a city I’ve seen. Great work.

[@user-lz5hf4vk7n]

my hometown, i love and miss you--Chongqing. love the beauties, the mountains, the Yangtze river, the food.

[@LS-tk7hp]

i dont understand... why don't we learn about this? i mean this is substantial information not only about ww2! China's history is so much bigger and culturally more interesting and what do i learn? the history about some rubbish people that no one wanted in their home using them to build a new country called usa? disgraceful

[@UsernameNULL755]

there's nothing stoping you from learning what you find interesting

[@Vladiator]

You're in a country, you're going to be mandated to learn about that very country. Colleges offer history on other cultures, and like the awesome Deus Ex fan above me said, nothing is stopping you from learning it. China on the other hand?... they're not so lucky.

[@glowy303]

A stupidly crowded oven with plentiful sulfur dioxide, and not a hope in hell of seeing blue skies and sunshine. Hmm... seems like a fairly avoidable place.

[@penguin_me]

It's fog only.

[@glowy303]

China's development is one of humanity's worst environmental disasters. Cheap coal and a doubling of car ownership every five years has made the country the second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Chongqing receives barely 1000 hours of sunshine ANNUALLY. That's roughly 800 hours less than places in Northern Europe!

[@penguin_me]

glowy303 Chongqing receives little sunshine just because of fog, not air pollutants. And it's normal to expect the most populous country to emit a large amount of greenhouse gases in total. It'll be better to look into the data in a per capita sense.

[@glowy303]

ymous anon You're not arguing against air pollution by calling it 'fog'. Yes, it is foggy, smoggy, misty, dusty - there are in fact many adjectives which would describe the unpleasant air of China's cities, especially Chongqing. The reason behind the 'fog' is as I mentioned, cheap fossil fuels, abundant use of them, and people having more disposable income and swapping bicycles for automobiles at a rate never experienced before by any city. In the early 2000s, the World Bank found that more than 1/3 of crops in and around Chongqing had been damaged by acid rain - caused by sulfur dioxide, which is an industrial pollutant. The World Bank also reported that in 2004, residents in Chongqing were inhaling six times more lung cancer-causing pollutants than the World Health Organization considers safe. Apparently Chongqing is trying to go green, but it has passed a point of no-return, one has to think.

[@penguin_me]

glowy303 I've never argued that Chongqing did not have air pollution. Dude, don't link air pollution with the fog. They are two completely different things. You gave me examples like sulphur dioxide. I appreciate your effort, but you'd know that sulphur dioxide is actually colorless and has nothing to do with the misty weather. An appropriate example is the suspended particulates or even the formation of smog, which you fail to point out.

[@milner112233]

Excellent production! I am writing an article on Chongqing and your video gave me the information I need to do further research. Thanks!

[@Elemy69]

Great work. I watched it all the way through.

[@xiangyuli4981]

我都没怎么听懂那个老奶奶讲话，歪果仁竟然听懂了！

[@sharonshi3768]

与老外一路的是个本地人

[@xiangyuli4981]

+sharon shih 原来是这样

[@km_lovefu1407]

重庆人说话基本上都是说方言，年轻人会好点，都不多。老婆婆说的方言比我们说得更土，很多方言到我们这代人都不说了，听不懂很正常。我听懂了

[@yuwu4107]

肯定有导游撒，不过我听懂了

[@dariuszb.9778]

24:45 Oh c'mon, the guy was so sweet and you needed to humiliate his communism teacher :D

[@lutx7820]

Can't believe I actually finished the whole movie, 45 mins! Great job!

[@marteung]

Thank you so much for making this documentary! I love it!

[@francoislamarche2795]

看到这个视频，想起了薄熙来。结合薄熙来，又想到陈良宇。 万里长城今犹在，不见当年秦始皇。

[@heylamb123]

I'm not a huge fan of these massive cities in China. It doesn't make sense why people would live in that concrete jungle with a low quality of life rather than living a healthy life in spacious cities?

[@TheGundegas]

Booo Bo

[@TheGundegas]

andis armans And more Boooo

[@TheGundegas]

andis armans City rules :-)

[@Lordovundead666]

Jobs maybe? cities in europe where just as crowded 100 years ago, now the urbanization has slowed down and that has allowed the cities to be more planned and spacious.

[@NyuAtreides]

do you see how much land China has compared to America? Also, their population compared to America? It's kind of necessary.

[@54markl]

I never thought I'd live to see something bigger than Shanghai, but here it is. Wow.

[@BrighamYen]

Wow had no idea how huge Chongqing is! Great documentary. Really got a sense how up and coming this city is.

[@holatio4028]

That was a great video Christian. Thank you.

[@RichardAllen7753]

Fabulous video. Extremely well-done. I appreciated your insights and perspectives. It's hard to get such a great introduction on anything Chinese, when u live in LA.

[@StaceyCogswelldagoskater1904]

That's good

[@liuhuoji]

People in China doesn't really care a shit about communist, we work hard and our lives depend on ourselves.

[@danieltaom]

Phenomenal! A great portrait of a city. Gives a really comprehensive view and transmits the feeling of living in Chongqing. Makes me miss China a lot. Thanks for the hard work!

[@MaiHoImmigrationProfessionals]

Great documentary film with excellent research quality. Thank you for sharing.

[@thndrngest]

this docu. is realistic & no politically-biased commentaries, vg work .

[@nightowl2046]

Good job! Good production! I used to live in Chongqing about one year, a giant city on mountains, mixed with tradition and modern. Hot food, extremly hot weather and hot girls, but dusty and polluted liked other fast growing Chinese cities. No doubt you showed a real city how it looks like to the people who have no chance to visit China.

[@warrenli7913]

Thank you, christianhenrik, for your wonderful documentary! Very informative and entertaining! Makes me want to go visit soon.