Megaprojects are extremely large-scale investment projects.
China is developing incredibly fast and has accomplished lots of enormous engineering achievements.
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20 Amazing Facts on China You Didn’t Know About
Facts Verse compiled a list of 20 Shocking China Facts You Didn’t Know About: From leftover women to dog meat festival.
Aside from being the most crowded nation on the planet, China’s economy is the second biggest on the planet after the US.
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7 Chinese Foods You Should Try In Southern China
Southern China food
The Food Ranger went to Guangzhou, Guandong province, to eat Chinese Food and Cantonese Food you can find these Chinese Foods throughout Guangdong and Hong Kong.
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Topics: China, chinese food,Guangdong food,hong kong food
Sanmenxia underground village
German news agency Ruptly documented a mysterious underground village in Sanmenxia, Henan.
The village consists of man-made caves which are inhabited to this day. The footage has been captured by a drone.
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Topics: underground village, Chinese underground village, drone footage of Chinese village
Propaganda Games in China – Sesame Credit
Sesame credit – The Chinese dystopian credit system to rate each citizen’s trustworthiness.
By 2020, everybody in China will be enlisted in a wide national database that gathers financial and government data, including minor petty criminal offenses, and distils it into a solitary number positioning every native.
Sesame Credit is an online service that uses residents online networking postings, their purchases and even their companions to allot a score to every individual that effects their lives.
In Extra Credits’ most recent video, they examine this very thing.
As their essential illustration, they utilize Sesame Credit, a product created by Tencent in a joint effort with the Chinese Government.
A standout amongst the most prominent tasks is by Sesame Credit, the financial wing of Alibaba.
With 400 million clients, Alibaba is the world’s greatest web shopping site. It’s utilizing its exceptional database of purchaser data to arrange “social credit” scores for every citizen.
Clients are urged to parade their great financial assessments to companions, and even potential mates.
China’s greatest matchmaking service, Baihe, has collaborated with Sesame to advance customers with great credit score, giving them noticeable spots on the organization’s site.
Michelangelo Antonioni documentary on China: Chung Kuo – 1972
The documentary focuses primarily on the lives of contemporary working-class Chinese people.
A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220-minute version consists of three parts. The first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older sections of the city, and a clinic where a Cesarean operation is performed, using acupuncture. The middle part visits the Red Flag canal and a collective farm in Henan, as well as the old city of Suzhou. The final part shows the port and industries of Shanghai and ends with a stage presentation by Chinese acrobats. [Will Gilbert]
According to cinematographer Luciano Tovoli, this documentary was shot mostly handheld with an ‘Eclair NPR’ 16mm camera using available light. In 1972, during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited by the People’s Republic of China to direct a documentary about New China. The result was a three-and-a-half-hour long film, divided into three parts. Mao disliked it so much that Michelangelo Antonioni was consequently charged with being anti-Chinese as well as counterrevolutionary. The movie was finally shown at Beijing’s Cinema Institute 30 years later.”
Beijing Underground City
The Underground City (Chinese: 地下城; pinyin: Dìxià Chéng), also known as Dixia Cheng, is a bomb shelter comprising a network of tunnels located beneath Beijing, China, which has since been transformed into a tourist attraction.
It has been called the Underground Great Wall because it was built for the purpose of military defense. (Wikipedia)
Video: editing and shooting: abelvideo/dmsl.co
music: Felix L’Amour
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Traditional Bai Spring Festival in Yunnan
Every year Bai people in Heqing celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.
“Baizu are one of the ethnic minorities in China. Although most Bai people adhere to Buddhism, they also have their native religion of Benzhuism: the worship of ngel zex (Chinese: 本主 ben zhu), local gods and ancestors. Ngel zex could be any heroes in history, the Prince of the Nanzhao regime, a hero of folklore or even a tiger (for instance, Laojun Jingdi 老君景帝 is a tiger actually). There are also minorities practicing Taoism and Christianity.” [Wikipedia]
Video by: Matteo Damiani
Beijing 01: Capturing the Soundtrack of a City in Flux
A Psychedelic Jam Session in the making
Back in 2001, a group of musicians – Matteo Damiani, Daisuke Tanaka, Massimiliano Carponi, and Xiao Ou (AK47) – who shared a love for psychedelic music, got together in a small studio in Beijing. They decided to have an impromptu jam session, which was recorded by Dominique Musorrafiti, an experimental videographer. At the time, the band didn’t have a name, but their music spoke for itself. They recorded two songs during that session – “Beijing 01” and “Chico de la noche”. The accompanying video for “Beijing 01” was shot during a significant time in Beijing’s history, as the city was undergoing significant social, economic and cultural changes. The recording studio where they jammed was located in an area that was due to be demolished as part of the redevelopment that was happening in the city.
“Little Apple” wins Chinese police and soldiers
China’s armed police officers and soldiers responsible for the disposal of terrorist attacks lost their self-control dancing “Little Apple”, one of the most popular songs … Read more
7 bizarre videos of professional mourning in Taiwan
All-female marching bands, strippers, and pole dancers are hired at Taiwanese funerals to mourn the dead.
8 videos showing an unusual aspect of funerals. Band members cost about £27 and sessions last for up to three hours.
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Professional mourning in Taiwan
Funeral marching band from Nantou Taiwan
Band playing at a funeral
Li Hongbo flexible sculptures will blown your mind
Classical sculptures revisited by Li Hongbo, a Beijing artist who uses mixed styles to bring to life these magical moving statues.
Sculptures are made of thousands of layers of paper and glue. via io9
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10 years of Internet addiction rehabs in China
A brief history of web addiction camps in China: brainwashing, electroconvulsive therapy, and other abuses were committed to patients over the years. New York Times … Read more
Overloaded Peking, 2001 documentary about New China
Overloaded Peking is a documentary about Beijing and the Chinese modernization we did in 2001 (MDDM, abelvideo).
It features a long and interesting interview (15:32) with a young Jia Zhangke about cinema, changes in the young Chinese generations, modernization of the country, the internet, censorship, and much more.
In 2001, Jia Zhangke movies (along with many other Chinese directors’ works) were forbidden in China. Eventually, Jia Zhangke emerged as one of the most famous new Chinese directors. In the documentary appears also Zhao Tao (during Jia Zhangke’s interview) and Dj Gaohu. Please view the documentary at 480p, otherwise, the subtitles will be unreadable.
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