1/20/2011 12:50:54 PM

i spy

with my little eye

the clock tower

1/20/2011 12:52:20 PM

That's crazy

1/20/2011 12:53:13 PM

pretty nuts

1/20/2011 12:54:05 PM

and soon, they will take over the world!

1/20/2011 12:56:44 PM

Quote :

"I LOVE SH"

1/20/2011 12:58:26 PM

holy shit.

1/20/2011 1:07:13 PM

oic they got better cameras now...nice!

1/20/2011 1:08:39 PM

I went there in 2008

'twas the shit

1/20/2011 1:38:39 PM

good for them

1/20/2011 1:43:20 PM

That's pretty sweet. I'd also like to see a pic like that for Karachi, Pakistan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karachi_population.svg

1/20/2011 1:44:47 PM

coooool

1/20/2011 1:46:49 PM

china blows my mind...its really cool to look at pictures to see the growth that has occurred in a pretty short period of time.

i went to Shenzhen when i was there (china's first SEZ) and it was just fascinating because the city has like...15 million people in it now and 25 years ago it was barely on the map. they said even like 10-15 years ago it was just a place no one had heard of. of course a lot of those residents are "floating" aka they come into the city to work in the factories (but definitely not millions of them...only like, thousands). and they have one of the biggest container ports in china. those places are also nuts...the one in hong kong was incredible (who gets excited about container ports, i don't know, but they are kinda neat).

if you're interested in business and economics it is a neat place to learn about/go to (as is all of china, i suppose).

i want to go back to china so bad. def would love to visit shanghai.

[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 1:50 PM. Reason : .]

1/20/2011 1:49:17 PM

dubai is likely very much the same

1/20/2011 1:50:30 PM

the second picture is also at mid-afternoon

1/20/2011 1:57:52 PM

ive spent a lot of time in shenzhen.

the chemical plant i worked at was there before the city was declared the economic center or whatever.

it's funny.... a legit chemical plant is now sitting in the middle of the city, with sky scrapers on all four sides.

wouldn't see that here.

1/20/2011 1:58:33 PM

^ for real. when i went...mind = blown.

edit: it wasn't hybio was it? i'm guessing no. but, i visited hybio (among other places) when i was there.

[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 2:06 PM. Reason : .]

1/20/2011 2:03:36 PM

amazing!

1/20/2011 2:22:27 PM

it's like China got Back to the Future II a year late, panicked at what they thought they had to keep up with in the next 25 years and got to work

1/20/2011 2:32:06 PM

lol that's pretty funny.

1/20/2011 2:35:16 PM

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"the second picture is also at mid-afternoon"

FTW

1/20/2011 2:48:11 PM

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"(who gets excited about container ports, i don't know, but they are kinda neat). "

My dad gets excited about them, but only because he works in logistics and likes to bitch about how lax the security is at ports

1/20/2011 2:50:48 PM

So their cloaking device broke. Big deal. They're still the super power they've always been.

1/20/2011 2:51:01 PM

^^ haha...yea i think they're pretty interesting

/nerd

1/20/2011 3:06:10 PM

Don't we call unsustainable growth, cancer?

1/20/2011 3:19:30 PM

pixels

1/20/2011 3:59:47 PM

Yeah, even with the change in range that is pretty cool.

I'm reeeeeeally excited I get to go over to the CDC there for work this fall!

1/20/2011 4:05:18 PM

1/20/2011 4:15:42 PM

I am doing EVERYTHING possible to go back to China this summer again (although, mainly not to see the country) for a week.

Tickets are about $1100-1300. I already have a passport. Visa can't be more than 100-200 USD. I'm hoping I can do it all for under $2000. I need to contact a travel agent and what not next month so i can do all of the paperwork and get the Visa well ahead of time. I'm not interested in doing tours and shit. I can get around just fine.

I guess that will be a Lounge thread for next month.

1/20/2011 5:28:08 PM

I'd spend the 2k on going to Vegas and blow 90% of that budget on booze, hookers and gambling... meet a guy named "Murry" who claims to "know a guy" and the adventure would start there. Camera's start rolling.

1/20/2011 5:52:30 PM

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"Camera's start rolling."

camera is start rolling??

1/20/2011 5:58:10 PM

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"90% of that budget on booze, hookers and gambling"

no need to buy alcohol in vegas, they bring it to you for free as long as you are gambling

1/20/2011 8:04:47 PM

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"the second picture is also at mid-afternoon"

1/20/2011 8:35:22 PM

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"I'd spend the 2k on going to Vegas and blow 90% of that budget on booze, hookers and gambling... meet a guy named "Murry" who claims to "know a guy" and the adventure would start there. Camera's start rolling."

k

1/20/2011 9:45:42 PM

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"I need to contact a travel agent and what not next month so i can do all of the paperwork and get the Visa well ahead of time."

Why spend money having a travel agent do this paperwork when you can file yourself for the visa?

1/20/2011 10:07:58 PM

never time for a travel agent.

1/20/2011 10:14:24 PM

^^ Because you have to go in person to get the visa, and the embassy is in DC. It will take 2-3 days to process it, or I can pay 30 dollars and get it the same day (at their own leisure, I'm sure). But they will not send you back your passport with the visa in it, you, or someone else (travel agent), has to pick it up.

See:

http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/ywzn/lsyw/vpna/rap/t710627.htm#HowTo (Go to the bottom).

It's just not feasible for me to go to DC by taking a day or 2 off from work. Not to mention, I want to go this summer, and I can't take any days off until June (I will go in July, or maybe early August).

1/20/2011 10:47:23 PM

China got dat cheddar and dat flash. Make it rain Chinatown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUy9OgRRXnw&feature=related

1/21/2011 8:48:55 AM

pretty crazy!

1/21/2011 9:00:53 AM

You can pretty much see global warming in that pic

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

1/21/2011 9:02:23 AM

All I see is this:

They destroyed green areas
They destroyed the clear and clean air/sky
They destroyed some historical buildings

GG China

Met a guy a couple of months ago (at a TG party) who told me that when he went for a lung checkup, his doctor told him that his lungs looked like those of a light smoker (he is a non-smoker). He was shocked, and then realized that it must be because he lived for 10 years in China. Same with his wife.

1/22/2011 6:50:12 AM

looks fake and obviously the chinese have little regard for historic buildings, at least most of them....

you can do a lot on the backs of a billion people.....

1/25/2011 10:56:09 PM

it's like Detroit in reverse

1/25/2011 11:43:40 PM

OEP went to a transgender party, probably to meet muscle chicks

1/25/2011 11:48:08 PM

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"China is set to flex its industrial muscles on a scale the world has never seen - with a 'mega-city' twice as big as Wales and a population of 42 million. Blueprints have been laid to meld nine existing urban hubs in the Country's manufacturing heartland into a single sprawling metropolis designed to rival the productive firepower of Beijing and Shanghai. The project is scheduled to be completed within the next six years turning the Pearl River Delta, southern China, into a living space which, at 16,000 square miles, will dwarf Greater London by 26 times. Dubbed 'Turn the Pearl River Delta into One', the scheme will stretch from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, incorporating Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. Some 3,100 miles of railway will be laid to connect the cities as just one of 150 infrastructure improvements including, energy, water and telecommunications."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350483/Largest-city-world-China-build-metropolis-twice-size-Wales.html

Shanghai #2

1/25/2011 11:50:09 PM

OP is pretty insane

1/25/2011 11:52:07 PM

ewwww, last place i would want to live, the air even in Bangkok was rough on the lungs, that would fucking suffocate someone...

1/26/2011 12:09:32 AM

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"Met a guy a couple of months ago (at a TG party) who told me that when he went for a lung checkup, his doctor told him that his lungs looked like those of a light smoker (he is a non-smoker). He was shocked, and then realized that it must be because he lived for 10 years in China. Same with his wife."

Sounds plausible, as they are not known for their environmental awareness. However, this kind of growth is hard to ignore from a country that we owe 1 trillion dollars.

1/26/2011 8:36:36 AM

you know what happens to that money if any conflict at all starts right?

OOOPS LOOKS LIKE 0 TO US

1/26/2011 3:48:34 PM

But we'd call it "seizing chinese assets".

1/26/2011 4:36:22 PM