Comments by "Good Citizen" (@GoodCitizen-gm1tl) on "DW News"
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I have been living in China for 34 years and am still living in Guangzhou, China is much more developed than it was even 10 years ago. The urban streets are spotless these days, 10 years ago they were not as clean as it is now. This is the biggest change visible to the eyes, the public cleanliness. Also on the technological side, the changes are also equally visible, 10 years ago, the urban street landscape didn't look as high-tech as they are now. The next visible change is car ownership. Even in the countryside, all the roads have solar-powered lamps nowadays and car ownership in the countryside is astonishingly high, in the front of every home parks a car (few households have home garages though, they just park cars in front of their houses). In the cities, the car ownership is actually lower as parking spaces are tighter. Ths is also one of the biggest changes in comparison to 10 years ago, the high prevalence of car ownership in the countryside. Another change is the metro system in the cities, for example, Guangzhou Metro now has an operating mileage of over 1,000km, can you believe it? 1,000 km-long subway lines in a single city! The new lines are also incredibly fast, like the Line 18 and the Line 22, which are operating at 160km/hour, almost approaching high speed rail standard.
As an individual witness of the Chinese Development Miracle while growing up since the 90s, I think China's transformation was the fastest in the 1990s to 2010s but the last 10 years still brought drastic changes to us, which are still very fast development. In fact, there are visible changes for the better even between now and pre-pandemic 2019, which are quite recent.
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I have been living in China for 34 years and am still living in Guangzhou, China is much more developed than it was even 10 years ago. The urban streets are spotless these days, 10 years ago they were not as clean as it is now. This is the biggest change visible to the eyes, the public cleanliness. Also on the technological side, the changes are also equally visible, 10 years ago, the urban street landscape didn't look as high-tech as they are now. The next visible change is car ownership. Even in the countryside, all the roads have solar-powered lamps nowadays and car ownership in the countryside is astonishingly high, in the front of every home parks a car (few households have home garages though, they just park cars in front of their houses). In the cities, the car ownership is actually lower as parking spaces are tighter. Ths is also one of the biggest changes in comparison to 10 years ago, the high prevalence of car ownership in the countryside. Another change is the metro system in the cities, for example, Guangzhou Metro now has an operating mileage of over 1,000km, can you believe it? 1,000 km-long subway lines in a single city! The new lines are also incredibly fast, like the Line 18 and the Line 22, which are operating at 160km/hour, almost approaching high speed rail standard.
As an individual witness of the Chinese Development Miracle while growing up since the 90s, I think China's transformation was the fastest in the 1990s to 2010s but the last 10 years still brought drastic changes to us, which are still very fast development. In fact, there are visible changes for the better even between now and pre-pandemic 2019, which are quite recent.
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In fact, Britain's first want was the Chusan Island (Zhoushan today) instead of Hong Kong after the First Opium War. Zhoushan was a quite large island at the mouth of the Yangtze river, from which, Britain could easily steer its vessels deep into the Chinese hinterland for colonial purposes, therefore it was of great significance to the British with the intention of colonizing China. Hong Kong, meanwhile, was a remote moutainous area without anything meaningful there at that time and far from China's hinterland.
However, the Qing dynasty denied at all costs the possibility of ceding Zhoushan to the British as the regions along the Yangtze river were the richest regions of all China contributing to the largest share of the Qing dynasty's tax revenues.
The British envoy compromised and accepted Hong Kong unwillingly and when the news came back to London, the British govt was very angry and sacked the British envoy immediately.
Unable to secure the grip over Zhoushan, all the colonial powers found Shanghai, the town sitting right at the mouth of the Yangtze, particularly important if they wanted to colonize China. So they all set up bases in Shanghai and from there their ships went deep into China from the Yangtze river to collect intelligences in preparation of fully colonizing China. However, this didn't occur as planned. As the encroachment of the West triggered the Boxer Rebellion movement and other similar movements across China, the colonial powers realized it was not feasible to conquer the Chinese people, who were already 400 million strong at that time, with such levels of resistances.
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Well, this is the 21st century, not the 19th century. The whole EU is filing less patents than little South Korea each year, how can you compete with China in science and technology? China files half of the world's IPs each year, twice the US, six times Japan or South Korea and seven times the EU patent volumes as per the WIPO's official reports. (welcome to verify if you are not convinced)
In terms of research performances , as per the latest Nature Index 2024, released by the science journal Nature not too long ago, 8 out of the top 10 science research institutes that published the most high-quality research outputs were from China (welcome to verify if you are not convinced). How can the West compete with China in science and technology today?
If you look at the names of the participants of the Team US, Canada, the UK and Australia in each round of International Mathmatics/Physics/Chemistry Olympiads, they always sent Chinese Americans, Chinese Canadians....to these Olympaids. These Chinese Americans, Chinese Australians....still cannot compete with the China Chinese.
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Many roads in Taiwan are named after mainland Chinese provinces and cities, such as Sichuan Road, Hebei Road, Hubei Road, Shandong Road, Hunan Road, Fujian Road, Guangdong Road, Guangxi Road.....; Peking Road, Nanking Road, Shanghai Road, Chungking Road, Tientsin Road, Wuhan Road, Hankow Road, Changsha Road.....
These mainland Chinese province and city names are all over the island in terms of the names of bounevards, streets and roads in both urban and rural settings.
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Well, this is the 21st century, not the 19th century. The whole EU is filing less patents than little South Korea each year, how can you compete with China in science and technology? China files half of the world's IPs each year, twice the US and seve times the EU patent volumes as per the WIPO's official reports,
In terms of research performances , as per the latest Nature Index 2024, released by the science journal Nature not too long ago, 8 out of the top 10 science research institutes that published the most high-quality research outputs were from China. How can the West compete with China in science and technology today?
If you look at the names of the participants of the Team US, Canada, the UK and Australia in each round of International Mathmatics/Physics/Chemistry Olympiads, they always sent Chinese Americans, Chinese Canadians....to these Olympaids. These Chinese Americans, Chinese Australians....still cannot compete with the China Chinese.
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