The Yangtze River: Why China’s ‘beating heart’ is too big to fail

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Description: The Yangtze River is Asia’s longest waterway, and arguably the most important river in the world. It stretches across the vast expanse of China, bringing life, wealth and energy to much of the country. It is an unrivalled icon, but its future is far from secure. It faces many issues from overfishing and flooding to pollution and the impact of climate change. The South China Morning Post examines the impact and legacy of one of China's most important resources.
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[@Sara3346]

The fact that the river dolphins, giant turtles and giant paddlefish are extinct means they have been working way too slowly.

[@alexandervowles3518]

Yup

[@baringkiron5375]

the dolphins and other marine life left into the ocean, saw it in the video before this.

[@Alazariq]

@@baringkiron5375 bruh river dolphin are not the same as dolphin that usualy roam around the ocean

[@baringkiron5375]

@@Alazariq you are right, أنا معجب كبير بكم يا رفاق

[@titusww1169]

Better late than do nothing. At least they try to do something

[@ianshaver8954]

When he says the Yangtze is too big to fail, what he means is that the Yangtze is so vitally important that it cannot be allowed to fail.

[@What-he5pr]

I don't think anyone is confused about that expression.

[@xcaluhbration]

@@What-he5pr there are people that are though.

[@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404]

Still failed- welp

[@MasuJimmy]

动机不纯，毒药就是给他们最好的礼物

[@VagPoop_]

This didn't age well

[@stainedtofu7885]

beat me to it aswell!

[@frey205]

2 Years later and its dead 10 years from now we will look at such videos and gonna cry about the beauty of our nature in the past.

[@shouryajain8847]

The Ganges river here in India is also suffering just like the Yangtze river and I think its the most important river in india

[@Himanshu-gm2bg]

Not for whole India But for the major part from western UP to Bengal (and these areas have high population density).

[@dkwhattouseasusername1012]

@@Himanshu-gm2bg I mean if those ppl get diseases and illnesses from drinking those water, I'm pretty sure it'll infect India... so yes it's important for whole India

[@shouryajain8847]

@@Himanshu-gm2bg yeah its doesn't flow through whole india but it the main river for india because it helps the people in the indo gangetic plain and its tributaries help other people its helping a huge population thats what makes it the most important river in india

[@nguyenthituyetmai9075]

Wow another joe mama meme

[@JoeMama-mq9fv]

@@shouryajain8847 hii

[@EyFmS]

"Why worry about the Yangtze river, when there is no more Yangtze river". - Roll safe meme.

[@deadringer2349]

"Roll safe meme." You're welcome.

[@EyFmS]

@@deadringer2349 Thanks for the meme culture moment bro.

[@heatherbrant6486]

Nothing is to big to fail.

[@danthemansmail]

Tell that to JP Morgan.

[@CosmosArchipelago]

Dan Harris when JP Morgan died it was found he only owned 17% of his company. Rothchilds owned the rest.

[@mingsml]

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[@gwot]

I think you misinterpret the title and video. The last thing mentioned in the video is "China cannot afford to lose", meaning the river is "too big", too valuable for China to have it fail. Not saying the river is unable to fail because it's too big.

[@indorilnorevar7545]

we live in such a crazy era that even big fat clowns and low-class actors like xi or kim, donald or boris think they're too big to fail

[@cooleKinder]

When will we realize the more we take the less we have

[@Pantheon-with-a-P]

kung fu panda?

[@freemind1229]

If you keep taking and never give back, what do you expect? Care and love for who takes care of u.

[@Bintangtumakaka]

It’s august 2022 and the Yang tze river is facing a devastating drought

[@rabbitazteca23]

no it isn't lol. I've just been there recently

[@aasamspb967]

@@rabbitazteca23 droughts doesn't happen throughout the year.

[@candyscardshop8188]

this aged pretty bad aye?

[@willdanger6833]

I was thinking the same thing lol

[@lurina64]

I agree

[@alsanchez5038]

China simply repeats the mistakes of the Europeans. We did the same to our rivers.

[@ishaansharma4325]

Same with India...

[@notasidiri]

What rivers in europe?

[@PhoenlxA]

one of the dark sides of green energy.

[@randommedia3441]

Its Russia what they did to amudariya, disappearance of aral sea...

[@andrewfoley1515]

This did not age well. That rivers nearly dried up now

[@Jammin247]

Drying right up now looks like its going to fail.

[@brooksanderson2599]

Thank you for a factual report instead of one laced with politics. Nature will have the final word in any case.

[@othmansiru6513]

Jungles in the plains, hills and mountains that protect Yangtze have been cut down. Flood now beyond control.

[@philnightjar1971]

You forgot the concrete used for construction. It prevents water from penetrating into the ground and since water cannot go into the ground, it has to flow somewhere else.

[@iitn8437]

@@philnightjar1971 it is very dangerous. Much experiments with natural flow of rivers causes too much harm. Even china made so many dams.

[@rafiyashaikh2368]

Why do humans mess with nature? 😣It causes unimaginable damage 😞

[@Kiyoone]

Why humans exist? should be the question for ya guys

[@ThemFishinBois]

So happy I live in a country with well regulated natural resources.

[@insectbite1714]

Which country is that?

[@denmac8708]

🤔

[@ycaceres3357]

@@insectbite1714 nonexistent…..😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nespar1541]

Now it's failing

[@Navywavy_blue123]

Their GREED is killing the river.

[@goldengirl1212]

Well, it is failing now. No water.

[@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404]

Don’t worry guys, the water didn’t disappear. Most just went to flood 1/3 of Pakistan and the other causing extreme snowstorms in Northern China.

[@alkasoli4002]

This is the story of every river..

[@weareorigin]

Humans and what they touched.

[@torojikoanimenetwork.2572]

Not really in Europe 💁🏼‍♀️

[@alkasoli4002]

@@torojikoanimenetwork.2572 I consider Mother Earth as a whole So I don't believe in Continents and countries.. Not at all a nationalist Creators made Mother Earth.. Not continents or countries And moreover all the water bodies of Mother Earth is connected in some way or other

[@alkasoli4002]

@@weareorigin Hmm

[@pangoprime8674]

Nope not every country, keep believing that to justify your government doing nothing but having garbage rivers. Canada has clean rivers. Yukon, Colombia, Peace, Churchil, etc.

[@soshugaming8664]

Who is here after all that new about the river drying up haha

[@sagadabeans]

Yangtze: I give you life China: Here have some wastewater and heavy metals

[@insectbite1714]

In the thumbnail you can see a plastic straw littering the water.

[@sagadabeans]

​@You Tube3 You've just committed whataboutism, a logical fallacy. Pointing out others' mistakes doesn't nullify this one. USA does a lot of damage, yes, but that doesn't make this any less of a problem.

[@sgoa9671]

Not 10 years. It's more like 3 years.

[@jesseterrell2109]

What river? There is no river now

[@boejiden1065]

Well this didn’t age well...

[@David-ii3bi]

I live in America and we also have many challenges. The two countries are considered enemies, but first we are a family of world humanity. I care about my brothers and sisters in China and send powerful and prosperous love to them.

[@waxogen]

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[@haven_lady675]

This didn't age well....

[@ajourneyofmylifebeautifuls4959]

Fresh water will be more precious than diamond after 2050 -2070.Think about it clearly

[@twothreeeighteight]

No one talks about the Mekong. It is dying ...

[@shawncheung1746]

ehh, I know there will be this kind of comment. at least there are much rains this year, do not demonize China for the flood or drought. consider all the area and most importantly your own country

[@shawncheung1746]

@Dave WA he pretent he is Chinese, but his saying is something happened in Qing Dynasty, at least 200 years ago... he cannot even check the hometown of leaders in China. typical western education with biased ignorance.

[@shawncheung1746]

@turbobenx Qing dynasty is not only ruled by Man, also include or major with north Han. if use molecular anthropology, north Han ruled nearly all the dynasty

[@fitfirst4468]

nobody talks about the size of your spring roll either, and it also dying la

[@ulerkadut8582]

@Panda outside of China please tell me other way, other than solar, water and wind base.

[@sofiasnow7099]

They should protect this river and put money (funds) on it, to save the river.

[@stpuwl468]

ᴍɪꜱꜱ ɪᴠʏ They are

[@yorusuyasoul69420]

Money don't float

[@kokfoongsoo2480]

Since ancient dynasties, chinese have been trying to tame these rivers.

[@markhenley3097]

What do you think they're doing right now?

[@schlongmonkey3775]

Otaku hunter lol!

[@jackwebb4934]

I must say this is a very informative video.

[@VashtheStampede007]

With some mistakes. He said Yangze river affects water quality in Beijing... Look it up where Beijing is lol. Beijing is near the second longest river in China - Yellow river.

[@chrischong6613]

@@VashtheStampede007 That was not a mistake. He was referring to the South-North Water Transfer Project which aims to divert a some of the Yangze's water to Northern cities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Transfer_Project

[@VashtheStampede007]

@@chrischong6613 , Except Beijing is at north of Yellow River. That is, the Yellow River locates between Beijing and Yangtze River.

[@chrischong6613]

@@VashtheStampede007 Which is why there's a 5km long tunnel under the Yellow River bringing water from the Yangze to Beijing. It's one of if not the world's largest infrastructure project.

[@VashtheStampede007]

@@chrischong6613 ， How does that make sense? Couldn’t they just use the water from Yellow River instead?

[@Laowai-xu8vt]

Prophetic documentary in 2020.

[@nenettramsarran4767]

It's also the longest river to flow entirely within one country.

[@mizu4305]

Because China is hella big for a country

[@mizu4305]

@Teska um I’m chinese

[@mizu4305]

@Teska of fuking course I understand I study Chinese history at school I just don’t understand why me saying China is big means I need an explanation of why it is big duh

[@lyhthegreat]

@@mizu4305 cause you cna't talk about anything related to china without meeting a hater..

[@mizu4305]

@@lyhthegreat I’m not a hater I’m just not proud of it

[@minyoung823]

Title: Yangtze is too big to fail Mother Nature in 2022 Drought: Hold my beer 🍺

[@eilois]

Keyboard warrior is coming and not reading the description and listen to the videos before commenting as usual i smell ganga river pollution and feces from toiletless superpower.. "It's future is far from secure" - Description 0:13 "Yangtze river is suffering" 6:06 "Climate changes .... though extreme weather events such as drought..." 6:11 "it's important for the river to recover ... and protected for future generation." [Too big to fail] is not mean "so big it can't fail" but "The influence is so big to people hence fail is unacceptable" This video is about how big and important this river to people livelihood and the likely possible catastrophe if one day it is dead.

[@nalzazlan]

Mother nature is saying it's payback time

[@devenderbisht5244]

All rivers in the world are equally important.

[@Freedom-Buoy-LLC]

Amen to that!!!! Spot on I love ALL Rivers! Even the ones I have yet to meet.😍

[@DinoMan_6]

Nature must be preserved and watched over by those who are capable of it...

[@anhkhoinguyen272]

An alternate thumbnail for you: Yangtze, the most important river in China. The fact that the river only flow mostly in China and China is the country that is causing the most damage to the river make the thumbnail thumbnail kinda funny 🤷‍♂️

[@LuckyLazyGamer]

I mean the channel is a propaganda machine

[@catnip9424]

@@LuckyLazyGamer at least it's not as bad as china uncensored

[@RD-ht6go]

How naive. The areas this river flows through is the biggest import-export market in the world. The world will be impacted if there's a disruption in this river.

[@albert9772]

@@RD-ht6go Well... with trends in global supply chains seeking to diversify especially out of China to Southeast Asia, it's probable that it becomes less economically important by 2030~2040. Besides, considering how the Chinese government strongly promotes no-international-interference policies on international stages (e.i. Myanmar coup), by China's own rules the international players have no rights or responsibilities regarding the revitalization efforts of the Yangtze River. So, as CCP puts it, it's 100% China's fault that the Yangtze is dying, and it's 100% China's responsibility to fund all 100% of resources and manpower necessary to save the river. And unless China rescinds its position on non-interference policy, international players cannot donate even a single yuan to the efforts; So based on that, it's quite appropriate to call it "the most important river in China", not "the world".

[@Meteorknite]

@@LuckyLazyGamer how is this propaganda you know where this channel is? How deep is your head inside china that china is ecery second in it ?

[@thecitybuilder1591]

Every major river has this problem

[@insectbite1714]

No, the world's cleanest river is the Mississippi River

[@Jack05Roses]

Now they taking West Philippines Sea to fish 🙈

[@Love_N_Let_Live]

Also aound South America and Africa. They are destroying the oceans of the whole world. Let's not forget their islands they built on top of reefs...

[@mxolisizondo9621]

it is towards the end of August 2022 the giant Asian river is facing tremendous challenge, its volume has drastically dropped as a results of severe draught that hit CHINA in the recent months.

[@Otter-Destruction]

If anyone ever wonders why China asserts its control over Tibet, it is because the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers. There isn't any other reason, its simply because of these rivers.

[@googleit4606]

It's also because Tibet has been under the ruling of the Chinese central government for a long time, and restoring history is a very important part of the Chinese culture.

[@Otter-Destruction]

@@googleit4606 Tibet was only actual Chinese territory during the Yuan and Qing Dynasties. Every other dynasty simply had Tibet as a vassal even the Tang and Han and Ming Dynasties didn't rule Tibet directly. So there isn't really argument of preserving historical territorial integrity when it comes to Tibet and China.

[@googleit4606]

@@Otter-Destruction Well first of all, just the Qing dynasty itself has its history longer than the US. So if we don't consider the Qing as part of the history that validifies its legitimacy, I doubt if we could still view the US as a legit nation in the world today. Plus, it is true that the Qing had greater control over the territories than Ming, especially in Mongolia, but the Ming clearly inherited the ruling legitimacy with their authorization on the Tibetan leaders. It was only until the late Ming when northeast China (where the Qing originated) and Tibet started to gain greater autonomy (that's how it works in China's cyclicality). But, again, that situation returns to the normal relatively shortly when the Qing took over. So Tibet has always been China's territory in the last several centuries. Its political structure was just different from those of kings and lords in Europe.

[@Otter-Destruction]

@@googleit4606 Well first of all the Qing weren't Chinese, they may have ruled in China, but they didn't marry Chinese nor did they have Chinese as ruling elites. The only reason why Manchuria is in China today is because the Han took it over from the Japanese. Being king maker of a territory doesn't make it your territory, if that were the case than Korea would be Chinese territory as well, as it was the Ming that "authorized" Joseon kings to rule. Additionally Qing rule of Tibet occurred well after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty in China. And with your argument we could go back to the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongols before and say all of Siberia belonged to China because of Genghis Khans conquests. It wasn't political structure of the country that was different it was the regional politics of the region that was completely different. Europe operated under the basis of Balance of Power, Asia operated under the idea of Chinese hegemony, that why everyone who wasn't Chinese was considered a barbarian.

[@googleit4606]

@@Otter-Destruction Not sure why do you say there was no marriage with Chinese or no Chinese ruling elites at that time. There were a lot of important figures served in the court. In fact, the Qing regarded themselves as Chinese, as Qianlong signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia in the name of China. I think what you might refer to was the majority Han ethnic group in China. But China has been a very diverse civilization even before Qing, and that diversity was well inherited by the ROC when their initial slogan was "five races under one union" (of course later they found more ethnics). And you were right, China did see places like Mongolia and Korea as part of China's territory before PRC, it was the communists abandoned those claims in the name of "international communist movement". In fact, you will still see a lot of Chinese officially registered as the Korean ethnic or Manchu ethnic today. Regarding how history affects their claims on territory, not sure if you are familiar with the history of the Mongols empire. But the Yuan didn't really have control over regions like Siberia. Genghis Khan did establish his massive empire, but soon after his death the empire was split and the Song still existed at that time. So the Yuan never had its reach to the other kingdoms and brought them back into one again. So the Mind didn't inherit those claims either, and of course, those were not claimed by today's China. And I agree, in ancient times everyone was trying to seek that hegemony. That was true to the Chinese, also true to the Europeans when Roman empire was established. It was only after its split and collapse that the Europeans were not able to unite Europe again (despite several attempts), so they had to accept a balance of regional powers and the constant instability in the area.

[@zeromailss]

And now the river is drying up, smh

[@VagPoop_]

Be happy

[@Blindswordsman1994]

Surprised the CCP didn’t blame this on “foreign” forces

[@sweetpotato3910]

Did you think thats funny?? Sorry man you not funny. Try again

[@hpesojjoseph2307]

Lol, as if it is uniquely chinese nature to blame somethingnon other countzries the leader of free worls usa also do the same thing over and over e

[@Blindswordsman1994]

Hpesoj Joseph China blames the West when things go wrong. The West blames itself. That’s the difference. Like Covid-19, blaming it on the west even though the virus came from China itself

[@Blindswordsman1994]

Blanc Owl think most of these 50 cent trolls are more blind than me. Listen, your government does not care one bit about you one bit. They would be willing to sacrifice your life just to stay in powe

[@billie0429]

We are not talking about the river failing, the worlds concern is the ccp failing

[@insectbite1714]

True, CCP is fake China

[@andrewtan4502]

No wonder they are stealing from our sea🥴

[@insectbite1714]

They do you can see it on China Unsencored

[@meowforever330]

@@insectbite1714 the lack of punctuation marks makes it a bit harder to understand :)

[@zsl1256]

Eggster certainly someone's when it's inside EEZs of sovereign countries

[@insectbite1714]

@@memelyshorts643 ask China that question its stealing water from nature too

[@venkatbabu186]

Why because they have some of the world's largest manufacturing.

[@phosphophyllite3034]

River : is dying Normal people : we have to do something People in this comment section : cHinEse ComMunIst pRopagAndA

[@davidli313]

Billson Lim ???

[@DZ477]

Nobody said that lol, I think you’re just saying this to make China critics look bad.

[@drmorcoch9338]

made in chay.nuh = GARBAGE

[@drmorcoch9338]

@Billson Lim did i spell it that way, numb nut?

[@awm9547]

I read the comments. And No. You are wrong. Nobody is saying that. You are just trying to make those, who critics the CCP, look bad. Nice try, but sry most people outside china arent brainwashed. They can differentiate.

[@Zaaxun]

They might want to update their video..

[@iamsandhu8664]

When Chinese government is doing better than Indian government

[@lanamikakjam1379]

Dude are u seriously comparing these two countries 😬

[@iamsandhu8664]

@@lanamikakjam1379 read it again xd

[@hailkingcerion800]

Still can't believe the largest naval battle in history took place on this river, hundreds of ships all bunched up together and burned during the battle.

[@ehko2418]

so many anti-china bots in the comments

[@mocassin92]

Doubt it. google is a friend to china and would definitely stop it.

[@navrhy3075]

Rightfully so. CCP is cancer.

[@ehko2418]

@reee reee Im not anti-american or anything. Im just saying there are many haters in the comments

[@ehko2418]

@reee reee but the thing is dat, many people have their "opinions" when they don't know wuts actually going on in the world. The amount of knowledge they have isn't enough to make a fair opinion.

[@Amidat]

yea it is a video of China beginning to clean up - just like other countries that industrialized before it - and mostly you see dumb comments bashing China.

[@FerozKhan-uv2hj]

The Chinese government and Chinese people are smart I'm pretty sure they will make it right sooner or later! Not like other countries basically giving up on everything

[@richardmangelmann4975]

Dude how r other countries giving up, ever looked at Europe?

[@DeepakSingh-hl3er]

In 2 years , river has dried up 😱

[@Hartsford007]

2 years on and their are reports that The Yangtze River in now dry in drought.

[@yewkeewong8952]

Mekong River is more important the Yangtze River as Mekong serves a few countries.

[@4eversight781]

The irony of… the sad of this… time has move after all

[@bourjoism3917]

NOTHING IS TOO BIG TO FAIL!

[@mingsml]

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[@Amidat]

I don't think you understood the video. the title means it is going to do what it takes to help the river because of how important it is

[@gwot]

I think you misinterpret the title and video. The last thing mentioned in the video is "China cannot afford to lose", meaning the river is "too big", too valuable for China to have it fail. Not saying the river is unable to fail because it's too big.

[@Throwaway-kg7ft]

@@gwot thank you for having basic reading comprehension

[@darkmadder9897]

So this has aged well...

[@obsidianstatue]

it's dlsgusting how SCMP censors my comment while allowing inflammatory comments that's borderline raclst.

[@penguinpingu3807]

What did you type?

[@obsidianstatue]

@@penguinpingu3807 I typed a short 3 point rebuke to the video. obviously with no bad words.

[@penguinpingu3807]

@@obsidianstatue what were the words

[@obsidianstatue]

@@sajanaryal6932 just copy and pasted the comment, but as soon as I log into my google plus account the comment is gone, while it's sitting right in front of me in my main account. this is called shadow banning.

[@IAMATTHETOP]

Change of google policies ... They can delete your comment any time from any of their platforms. Try writing with space in words or disform the words in such that bots can't understand them but human can.

[@rayanroy6549]

Report the video as spam or misleading

[@MadMaxx89]

This video didn't age well

[@Shiva_The_King_007]

Chinese need to understand....Nature is the boss

[@williamgoss4691]

A poignant poem to the life of - and life-giving - Yangtze River.

[@gofar5185]

thank you scmp for update of the river yangtze...

[@nunyabeeswax3936]

well in a few of days perhaps the "long river" will be making efforts to revert to it's former status if the 3 G D should give way totally

[@TheOriginalDeckBoy]

And haven't you made a mess of it... nearly everything in it is extinct.. well done.. well managed

[@ConAim]

Playing with fire, burning with fire....

[@Heresheis0818]

Every Chinese comes from the nurturing of Motherland

[@Giacobbo88]

More waste and pollution in the river means more floods and possible dams failures

[@mchrysogelos7623]

and possibly leading to more earthquakes as well.

[@terracewalker8919]

Nice to be informed rather than victimised by self interested propaganda. It creates understanding rather than suspicion division and fear, creating hope that your fellow humans will suffer.

[@tashiwangchuk2860]

Yangtze River is mother for all Chinese people... Preserving and restoring is all Chinese people's responsibilities.. My prayers to you Mother (Ama) 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@tseringchosphel1340]

Where are you from?

[@tashiwangchuk2860]

@@tseringchosphel1340 am from Bhutan la.. What about you la??

[@tseringchosphel1340]

@@tashiwangchuk2860 from Ladakh

[@tseringchosphel1340]

@@tashiwangchuk2860 tashi delek

[@orvillesicat157]

Industry over agriculture are we going back to be a farmer or move on to robotics world

[@evanw2195]

Somebody didn’t study in school

[@drjonritz]

How do you fail to mention the flooding?

[@emmanuelgalanza9058]

The law of gravity.

[@TheMagicalPoison]

Times after times in history, it has proven that building dams are seriously damaging the natural environment. In a long run, it might lead to un-repairable destructions to the surrounding eco-system deep and wide thus natural disasters like flooding and drought could be devastating and might destroy thousands of lives and property damages. But it's always the greed of human beings caused them to downplay these concerns while evaluating the pros and cons before the constructions of the dams are deed and sealed. Yes, there could be a short term of glory to enjoy but the long term or even permanent nightmares are yet to come. The larger the gloriories the deadlier the consequences. Sad.

[@TheColombianSpartan]

I'm just sitting here like: most important river of the world? I think that depends... *Looks at the Tigris, Euphrates, Nile river, Indus, Rhine* and many other key big rivers

[@joshtep6784]

It IS the most important river in the world. No river in the world carries as much economic, ecological, and freshwater resource importance all at the same time, except maybe the Mississippi. The Yangtze is comparable to the Mediterranean Sea in trade and commercial activity too.

[@surajprakash3181]

@@joshtep6784 The question is very subjective! For each country, or any specific region most important river would vary*"*

[@richardmangelmann4975]

The first rivers the dude mentioned were those of great importance to development of the first civilisations which is why they’re so legendary. They certainly played a more important part globally to get where we are. And the Rhine river is basically the trading river in the middle of Europe, it’s the most important river over there. So it’s debatable.

[@danielkim4249]

Wasn't this the purpose of the EPA? To consider the far reaching impacts of human activity? But they though that the Environmental regulations became too cumbersome. Regulations were adding too many costs. With the costs of production increasing, decreasing profits. But then they found out that China would be willing to destroy itself to make their products for them. Now they want deregulation. Defund the EPA so that it can't function properly; causing it to fail They point out its failure and calls for the elimination of the agency. Turns out those cheap goods have a really high cost to them.

[@CrunchyNorbert]

show the cows getting swept away by floods

[@abyssinia4ever]

Nothing about the flood damage I see.

[@jonathanalexander8858]

While I am glad to see that water pollution has been given attention, I think moving the industries elsewhere only moves the problem. China (as well as every other country) should focus on reducing heavy metal and other waste into rivers and seas.

[@intreoo]

The thing is China is a global manufacturing hub, hundreds of countries use China as a hub to produce their goods. The amount of waste left over is huge, very huge. It would be very hard to reduce metal and other waste when it is vital to the Chinese economy, as manufacturing accounts for 30% of China's economy alone. Moving the industries would be a better option in my opinion.

[@jonathanalexander8858]

@@intreoo Very true, but there are bound to be ways to reduce heavy metal waste, or at least ways to contain it. By moving the industry elsewhere, other water sources are affected.

[@rockyrobbins6247]

"" JUST CALL MY NAME, AND I'LL BE THERE..."" MICHAEL JACKSON

[@itsbritneybyotch7471]

Hope everything will get better in 2021

[@mchrysogelos7623]

sometimes things have to get darker before the people wise up. this may be a BIG 'tap on their shoulder' to wake them up.

[@yjiang750]

Lol,nope

[@mina3442]

anyone else here from online school

[@whitelies2024]

I thought it was "The China Sea, the biggest sea that is owned just by one country" 😂 😂

[@fernandoc.dacruz1162]

Ele não pertence a China, ela quer se apossar.

[@anthonynicholson5523]

This didn't age well for 2022

[@schplergen6630]

2022 it's dried up

[@tenlotus8079]

Tibet should be free to keep peace.

[@unifieddynasty]

If we follow the course of human development, China will succeed in its conservation efforts. This problem has already been experienced and largely solved in western Europe and America after they industrialized.

[@mocassin92]

Doubt it. Too much corruption because of communism.

[@unifieddynasty]

​@@mocassin92 I guess that's why China is currently drowning in Covid-19 cases, right? Consider reformulating your thoughts. Else you won't like where this will end up.

[@unifieddynasty]

@@myunuo Indeed. 😉

[@unifieddynasty]

@@myunuo Thucydides Trap. Many people are uncomfortable seeing China doing much better. In their mind, they still think modern China is like 1960s China, and they react with condescension and incredulity when evidence is presented of China's modernization progress.

[@unifieddynasty]

@@myunuo Don't worry about it my dude. Things will calm down after the november US presidential elections and once life returns to normal again in a year or so. 🙂

[@aperson2730]

Really interesting. Thank you.

[@xueling02able]

A factual and informative video. May the people change their bad habits and stop abusing the use of the country's waterways. By keeping the rivers pollution free would greatly help make government initiatives work effectively too.

[@gruisman]

lol if it was that simple the world would be saved already xD

[@uu3246]

Hahahahaaha look what happened this August 2022

[@aishwaryaranjan1204]

China it self us very important for the world

[@drmorcoch9338]

china maybe, communist NO!

[@bigbrothersinnerparty297]

Dr Morcoch there is no room for debate. Where is your phone made from

[@drmorcoch9338]

@@bigbrothersinnerparty297 s korea. i don't buy anything that says made in china. chinese products are garbage

[@aishwaryaranjan1204]

@@drmorcoch9338 so why do roots of globalisation and greatest inventions belongs china is a mystery

[@laopang91362]

Indeed!

[@andrearoyd2942]

wow - nothing about the flooding then or potential failure? SUCH POSITIVE NEWS AGAIN, from Chna

[@jcvp2493]

Seatch their lobrary of videos

[@andrearoyd2942]

@Tomukatsusu Dav Ought to be reported if they are not true. Amazing also, how China has no problem now with the Virus when Brazil and India are getting hit to hard.

[@StephenBekker]

Titanic also thought it was unsinkable. Cut to 2022

[@imthevoice7482]

It’s TIBET river not China’s

[@karasheep]

Arunachal also belongs to Tibet

[@IAMATTHETOP]

@@karasheep actually not.

[@ArghyadeepPal]

@@karasheep China belongs to Mongolia