China cities at the peak of the largest real estate bubble in history

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#19 Changsha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changsha

Changsha is the capital and largest city of Hunan Province in south-central China, located on the lower reaches of the Xiang River, a branch of the Yangtze River. Its municipality covers an area of 11,819 square kilometres (4,563 sq mi) and, according to the 2010 Census, a population of 7,044,118 inhabitants. The city's urban area has a population of 3,617,469.[3]

Note: The embedded image has been resized, original link: http://img16.poco.cn/mypoco/myphoto/...588833_000.jpg


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#20 Huizhou

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huizhou

Huizhou is a city located in central Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China. Part of the Pearl River Delta, Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shaoguan to the north, Heyuan to the northeast, Shanwei to the east, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, and looks out to Daya Bay on the South China Sea to the south. Administered as a prefecture-level city, it has 4.6 million residents in its area of jurisdiction.


Its southern part made of Huiyang district is now part of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen built-up area, the biggest built-up area in the world with more than 44,478,513 inhabitants at the 2010 census encompassing the whole Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhongshan, Macao cities, main part of Guangzhou, and small parts of Jiangmen and Huizhou cities.

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#8 Chongqing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing

Chongqing; former official name: Chungking is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities (the other three are Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin), and the only such municipality in inland China.[8]


The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the sub-provincial city administration that was part of Sichuan province.[9] As of 2010 census, the municipality had a population of 28,846,170.[4] According to this census, Chongqing is the most populous Chinese municipality,[10] although the urbanized area is estimated to have a population of only 6 or 7 million,[11]

Another photo of the business district of inland city Chungking. Chinese urban planners don't give much thought to green belts and parks. It is understandable that American cities were built this way a century but we're in the 21st century.

[lakedaemonian]

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A photo at night in the rain and the only things missing to being a real set for Bladerunner is Harrison Ford in a flying car.

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This is an ancient city similar to Suzhou so there are height controls for buildings. I put in 2 photos to show how it would look like in the past. Changzhou is an hour high speed train (120 miles) from Shanghai - http://www.travelchinaguide.com/chin...u&d=2015-04-18


#21 Changzhou

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changzhou

Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province of China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling, Jinling, and Wujin. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the west, Zhenjiang to the northwest, Wuxi to the east, and the province of Zhejiang to the south. The city is situated in the affluent Yangtze Delta region of China. Its total population was 4,592,431 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,290,918 lived in the built-up area made up of 5 urban districts.[2] The agglomeration is now part of Shangai-Suzhou-Wuxi built-up area which has now more than 36,000,000 inhabitants, only second in China after Pearl River built-up


History


"The Ruins of Yancheng", comprise the remains of a walled city located in the Wujin district of Changzhou that was founded over 3000 years ago at the beginning of the Western Zhou dynasty. The earliest record of a settlement on the site of modern Changzhou is as a commandery founded in 221?bc at the beginning of the Qin Dynasty. During the interregnum between the Sui and Tang, the city of Piling was the capital of Shen Faxing's short-lived Kingdom of Liang (ad?619 to 620). Changzhou got its present name meaning "ordinary prefecture" in 589. Following construction of the Grand Canal in 609, Changzhou became a canal port and transshipment point for locally-grown grain, and has maintained these roles ever since. The rural counties surrounding Changzhou are noted for the production of rice, fish, tea, silk, bamboo and fruit.

Metro Map (Under construction, ready 2019)

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They paved paradise, and put up a soccer stadium... lalala

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They paved paradise, and put up a soccer stadium... lalala

Oh, I should have made it clear that the 2 photos were taken at different directions.

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#22 Wuhan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province,[4] People's Republic of China, and is the most populous city in Central China.[5] It lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain at the intersection of the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han rivers. Arising out of the conglomeration of three cities, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, Wuhan is known as "the nine provinces' leading thoroughfare"; it is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and expressways passing through the city. Because of its key role in domestic transportation, Wuhan was sometimes referred to as the "Chicago of China."[6][7]


Holding sub-provincial status,[8] Wuhan is recognized as the political, economic, financial, cultural, educational and transportation center of central China.[5] The city of Wuhan, first termed as such in 1927, has a population of 10,220,000 people (as of 2013).[2]

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China plans to build a 540-kilometre strategic high-speed rail link between Tibet and Nepal passing through a tunnel under Mt. Everest. Beijing’s state-run China Daily Thursday quoted Wang Mengshu, an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as saying the project is rumbling ahead despite expected engineering hurdles.“

A proposed extension of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway to the China-Nepal border through Tibet would boost bilateral trade and tourism as there is currently no rail line linking the two countries,” China Daily said.

A 1,956-km long Qinghai-Tibet railway is already said (this is impossible to verify?) to link the rest of China with the Tibetan capital Lhasa and beyond.

Remember when we did things like this . . .



Roosevelt on a digging machine during construction of the Panama Canal, circa 1908.





Now we're known for things like this . . .

Reuters

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Speaking of rail I wonder if the US also has a line of thinking according to the old British empire and their merchant marine. It was quite easy to bend plow shares to swords with a thriving British merchant marine. Same is true of air power. Bad rail insures pilots are cheap and plentiful in the US. I wonder if it is just a fluke but it does fit that model. Rail does not really go from civilian to military application, from guns to butter and butter to guns so easily.

[don]

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It was quite easy to bend plow shares to swords with a thriving British merchant marine.

as long as Britannia ruled the waves . . . .

Rail does not really go from civilian to military application

I think Lee, Grant, Moltke, and the Wehrmacht in Russia would disagree.

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as long as Britannia ruled the waves . . . .


I think Lee, Grant, Moltke, and the Wehrmacht in Russia would disagree.

I don't think I would want those guys as arguing my case in the modern context . I could hardly blame Moltke for not being impressed with the famous French air power at the time other than needle gun target practise.

These days I don't think a country full of mag rails is going to find them so easily bent into war assets like air power. Rail lines would be the among first things to be bombed.

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China Railway Construction Corporation
http://english.crcc.cn/Page/508/default.aspx

several planned high-speed rail lines.
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-s...00081&cid=1502


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[don]

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I don't think I would want those guys as arguing my case in the modern context . I could hardly blame Moltke for not being impressed with the famous French air power at the time other than needle gun target practise.

These days I don't think a country full of mag rails is going to find them so easily bent into war assets like air power. Rail lines would be the among first things to be bombed.

Could have sworn you were talking of the British Empire. The needle gun was Franco-Prussian war vintage, Mauser for WWI. As far as cheap and plentiful topflight fighter pilots, when did this happen? If anything, drones will be an ongoing drain on these assets. As far as bombing China's rail system - and underestimating the role of rail in moving large military formations, even in the modern context - wouldn't that provoke a nuclear exchange?

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Could have sworn you were talking of the British Empire. The needle gun was Franco-Prussian war vintage, Mauser for WWI. As far as cheap and plentiful topflight fighter pilots, when did this happen? If anything, drones will be an ongoing drain on these assets. As far as bombing China's rail system - and underestimating the role of rail in moving large military formations, even in the modern context - wouldn't that provoke a nuclear exchange?

Uh, well you are the one who mentioned Moltke And if you mean the elder why that given Prussia was well known to have used rail in the war famously with artillery.? Rail and Moltke the younger is a far more meaningful reference. Even more mind blowing is your mention of Lee and Grant who were his contemporaries. I am also speaking of how our country is structured now not after drone make pilots obsolete.

So in other words in regard to people who jack with people on the Internet, you too Don? Really?

Thought this forum was cool. Looking to just suck like the rest of them.