China's booming Silicon Valley-like community

[beijingwalker]

China's booming Silicon Valley-like community

Shenzhen's new development zones are sprawling and expanding by the day, and neighboring Hong Kong is busy with vandalizing and trashing everything, soon Shenzhen will swallow Hong kong up alive.

 

[Paul2]

Life is good, but motorcycle is forbidden

 

[beijingwalker]

Life is good, but motorcycle is forbidden

What..?

 

[Paul2]

What..?

Motorcycles are banned in Shenzhen since 2011

 

[casual]

Motorcycles are banned in Shenzhen since 2011

it's like Beijing. but scooters are everywhere tho.

 

[Mista]

Motorcycles are banned in Shenzhen since 2011

it's like Beijing. but scooters are everywhere tho.

Wait what? Why?

 

[beijingwalker]

I can still see motorcycles everyday in Beijing, I hate them, they make too much noise.

 

[Paul2]

it's like Beijing. but scooters are everywhere tho.

Courier companies are allowed to have them

Wait what? Why?

Ask papa Xi, well, Hu in that case.

Motorcycle bans around the country started in 2009 with Guangzhou because media made a fuzz about "gangsters on motorcycles," and influential locals have steered the moral panic for their own benefit.

Why? What big thing you think is in Guangzhou? GAC is.

After that Shenzhen decided to do the same, but for other reasons. There was a naive hope of propping BYD, and second to it an even more naive thinking that "if poor people on scooters will buy more cars, than our municipal GDP stats will go up!" Nobody admits to that being the original thinking behind it, but everybody knows that. At around those years, provinces used every trick possible to fudge their economic stats to get more favours from Beijing.

And after Shenzhen adopted the ban, every other major city in China did that too because "because smart Shenzhen boys do that too!"

 

[Mista]

an even more naive thinking that "if poor people on scooters will buy more cars, than our municipal GDP stats will go up!" Nobody admits to that being the original thinking behind it, but everybody knows that. At around those years, provinces used every trick possible to fudge their economic stats to get more favours from Beijing.

https://www.quora.com/Will-a-full-ban-on-Motorcycles-be-enforced-in-Chinas-major-cities

https://www.zhihu.com/question/20696349/answer/16073138

I think they are just going for one-size-fits-all policies, quite similar to Singapore lol.

 

[jamahir]

China's booming Silicon Valley-like community

Shenzhen's new development zones are sprawling and expanding by the day, and neighboring Hong Kong is busy with vandalizing and trashing everything, soon Shenzhen will swallow Hong kong up alive.

This place looks like the city in Blade Runner - a city of skyscrapers.

Chinese should look at replicating the Suburbs system in America and the little towns from Britain.

@Hamartia Antidote @Indus Pakistan

I can still see motorcycles everyday in Beijing, I hate them, they make too much noise.

Motorcycles are part of the problem of India's traffic problems. Especially young men ride them as they please and many motorcycle riders even climb up onto the footpath.

 

[beijingwalker]

This place looks like the city in Blade Runner - a city of skyscrapers.

Chinese should look at replicating the Suburbs system in America and the little towns from Britain.

@Hamartia Antidote @Indus Pakistan

For suburbs, yes, China's suburbs are also less populated, but big cities in every country is more or less the same.

 

[tower9]

This place looks like the city in Blade Runner - a city of skyscrapers.

Chinese should look at replicating the Suburbs system in America and the little towns on from Britain.

@Hamartia Antidote @Indus Pakistan
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If China had American style suburbs everywhere it'd destroy the world. Chinas suburbs are the size of medium to big cities everywhere. It sucks having to live in a tall building but it's not realistic to be able to have a billion people living in American style mcmansions.

 

[jamahir]

Hello, @tower9, can you post pictures of what you said here :

If China had American style suburbs everywhere it'd destroy the world. Chinas suburbs are the size of medium to big cities everywhere.

 

[initial_d]

Courier companies are allowed to have them

Ask papa Xi, well, Hu in that case.

Motorcycle bans around the country started in 2009 with Guangzhou because media made a fuzz about "gangsters on motorcycles," and influential locals have steered the moral panic for their own benefit.

Why? What big thing you think is in Guangzhou? GAC is.

After that Shenzhen decided to do the same, but for other reasons. There was a naive hope of propping BYD, and second to it an even more naive thinking that "if poor people on scooters will buy more cars, than our municipal GDP stats will go up!" Nobody admits to that being the original thinking behind it, but everybody knows that. At around those years, provinces used every trick possible to fudge their economic stats to get more favours from Beijing.

And after Shenzhen adopted the ban, every other major city in China did that too because "because smart Shenzhen boys do that too!"

does this meant i cannot cross country in china with my Kawasaki from Indonesia to Europe via malaysia-thailand-cambodia-vietnam-chinna-mongolia-russia and etc.....i and my friend are planning this journey next year.....

 

[beijingwalker]

Hello, @tower9, can you post pictures of what you said here :

Wuhan city suburbs