How China's tier 5 or tier 6 cities look like?

[powastick]

I would suggest one refrains from commenting if he/she has little knowledge on this topic.


They are LEGIT BIG CITIES outside China.
They are called small tier3-5 cities in China
just because THEY ARE IN CHINA.

(@GS Zhou Thanks for the link again)

Tai'an City
Its population was 5,494,207 as of the 2010 census, of whom 1,735,425 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of 2 urban districts (Taishan District and Daiyue District).
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All photos screenshot from Tai'an City's panoramic photos
In Tai'an core urban districts

It's not our faults we have these BIG small cities in China with huge area of parks and lakes, well-designed and well-maintained!
This is how average non-famous Chinese cities look like.

We don't have low-skill low-education ill-health rat-bred young people wandering on the street riding a 2-wheeler in the middle of daytime!

Wtf 5 million in population?

 

[GS Zhou]

@AndrewJin @GS Zhou you guys are more familiar with Chinese cities. What's you take?

kids are in their kindergartens or schools; adults are working at the factories or offices; elders are watching TV at home, or playing mahjong with their neighbors. Very few homeless people wandering on the streets, also few jobless people, and few school-less kids. Also not many tourists, because the tier-5 or -6 cities shown here, are even unknown to many Chinese.

The picture below is from Shanghai. The streets look "empty" too. But come on, this is Lu Jia Zui, the core CBD area in Shanghai, who dares to say Lu Jia Zui is empty??

 

[AndrewJin]

Wtf 5 million in population?

That's the population of the entire Prefecture.
China's prefecture-level city is actually a small state in Germany or Japan's prefecture.
As I have said in my previous comments, the city in most cases only refers to the core urban districts.
On wiki, it is called "built-up" region.
But actually, outside the core regions, there are numerous counties and county-level city.
Each county has numerous built-up towns or townships.
Among these towns or townships, the main town is called county town 县城, the administrative centre of that county.
These county towns are CITY in their own rights.
Other towns could be real cities, could also be urbanised towns, or more country-style township.
Every town or township has large area of countryside, that is the real countryside......
(Urban district can also have towns and countryside in the outskirt)
Anyway, China's administrative regions' name could be very confusing to foreigners.


From Wiki
Similarly to a higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town (zhen) would typically include an urban core (what one would call a "town" in Europe or America - a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as rural area with some villages (村 cun, or 庄 zhuang).

One town in Yi County (a town=an urban core+rural areas of villages）in Central China
You can see less-built-up villages in the background, all belong to this town.

Another interesting administration is County-level City.
This is former Panxian County, now called Panzhou City, a ceremony to celebrate the establishment of the new city.
But this city is still under the upper Liupanshui Prefecture-level City

A county-level municipality (Chinese: 县级市), county-level city, or county city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-leveldivisions. Formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949-1970: Chinese: 专辖市; 1970-1983: Chinese: 地辖市).

County-level cities are not "cities" in the strictest sense of the word, since they usually contain rural areas many times the size of their urban, built-up area. This is because the counties that county-level cities have replaced are themselves large administrative units containing towns, villages, and farmland. To distinguish a "county-level city" from its actual urban area (the traditional meaning of the word "city"), the term 市区 shìqū, or "urban area", is used.


All these counties or county-level cities are not tier-N cities....
Usually only prefecture-level or higher-level cities are recognised as real CITY.

Many years ago, I strolled down the Shiji Boulevard in Shanghai. It's in the middle of Pudong and at midday virtually empty. I asked my Chinese friend who accompanied me why the gov. Is wasting so much space in the most expensive real estate where so few people seem to use. His explanation was quite interesting. He told me that's the utopia so many Chinese have been dreaming about as most of them have been living under crowded conditions all their life. The government is just answering to that dream of spaciousness, emptiness and at the same time modernity. From my point of view it's just wasted land that should be used for farming.

German large cities are usually very compact and yet very green without much overcrowding. In fact, many East Asians visiting Germany tell me that German streets seem to be empty, on Sunday you can virtually shoot 360 degree with an MG without hitting anyone, even in many parts of a big city.

What Chinese cities need is more compactness to save land for agriculture. It's a balance act. I also think any urban areas with more than 200 k population need at least a light rail system, cities with more than 500 k needs a mixture of light rail and metro. Cities larger than 1 Mio. need a metro and a suburb rail like our S-Bahn.

That man must be very in his dream....
Central Avenue has two types of congestion, one on the surface (during peak hours)
and one underneath (subway Line 2 along this road, 1+million ridership per day)

German large cities are usually very compact and yet very green without much overcrowding. In fact, many East Asians visiting Germany tell me that German streets seem to be empty, on Sunday you can virtually shoot 360 degree with an MG without hitting anyone, even in many parts of a big city.

Germany's larger cities like München and Stuttgart are similar to the cities mentioned in this thread, do you agree? Population wise?

What Chinese cities need is more compactness to save land for agriculture. It's a balance act. I also think any urban areas with more than 200 k population need at least a light rail system, cities with more than 500 k needs a mixture of light rail and metro. Cities larger than 1 Mio. need a metro and a suburb rail like our S-Bahn.

On mass transport I agree.
All these cities mentioned here are building or planning trams+BRT+Skyrail.
(I personally prefer BRT)

S-Bahn is useless here.
There is no such defined CBD here, even in my hometown of 10 million people.
Multicentrered in China vs One CBD in western cities
If the density of a city is small, even with 1-2million, heavy rails are just a waste.
People work very closer to their homes.
(I know nearly every S-Bahn system in Germany, even the one in Lübeck)

Another issue is landscape around railways.
Most Chinese just hate overground railways dividing cities.
In China, you can nearly see zero railway crossing.

kids are in their kindergartens or schools; adults are working at the factories or offices; elders are watching TV at home, or playing mahjong with their neighbors. Very few homeless people wandering on the streets, also few jobless people, and few school-less kids. Also not many tourists, because the tier-5 or -6 cities shown here, are even unknown to many Chinese.

The picture below is from Shanghai. The streets look "empty" too. But come on, this is Lu Jia Zui, the core CBD area in Shanghai, who dares to say Lu Jia Zui is empty??
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Yes.
People go out at night.
Girls and boys go out having BQQ at 10pm.
Aunties and uncles start to go to parks or playgrounds around 7-8pm after lunch.
Women work too, as doctors, factory workers, bus drivers, CEOs, etc.

Forget the name...from one of the links
All these parks and squares are full of people after 6pm.

 

[GS Zhou]

I'm now sharing the panorama views of more less-developed areas in China. Below are all county-level administrative units in China. By saying "county-level", it means these "small" towns are NOT qualified to be classified as Tier-N cities in China.

For these really un-famous places in China, I will give their Chinese names too, otherwise I'm pretty sure even the Chinese members could not recognize which one it is.

福建闽侯, Minhou of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5e22cqa5ayn?pano_id=851842

福建晋江, Jinjiang of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5db2c9s6w1f?pano_id=1511136

福建罗源, Luoyuan of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/acfjOp4yuw3?pano_id=2324877

福建长乐, Changle of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5212casdyyg?pano_id=707029

福建仙游, Xianyou of Fujian,
http://720yun.com/t/47d2bqbuu4f?pano_id=1087202

山西古交, Gujiao of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/17128wa6w1f?pano_id=58655

山西清徐, Qingxu of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/e9120xs8xtf?pano_id=1144363

山西安泽, Anze of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/c7b2cqiOxyg?pano_id=802429

福建石狮， Shishi of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/867jOdewkw6?pano_id=1982592

 

[AndrewJin]

I'm now sharing the panorama views of more less-developed areas in China. Below are all county-level administrative units in China. By saying "county-level", it means these "small" towns are NOT qualified to be classified as Tier-N cities in China.

For these really un-famous places in China, I will give their Chinese names too, otherwise I'm pretty sure even the Chinese members could not recognize which one it is.

福建闽侯, Minhou of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5e22cqa5ayn?pano_id=851842

福建晋江, Jinjiang of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5db2c9s6w1f?pano_id=1511136

福建罗源, Luoyuan of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/acfjOp4yuw3?pano_id=2324877

福建长乐, Changle of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5212casdyyg?pano_id=707029

福建仙游, Xianyou of Fujian,
http://720yun.com/t/47d2bqbuu4f?pano_id=1087202

山西古交, Gujiao of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/17128wa6w1f?pano_id=58655

山西清徐, Qingxu of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/e9120xs8xtf?pano_id=1144363

山西安泽, Anze of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/c7b2cqiOxyg?pano_id=802429

福建石狮， Shishi of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/867jOdewkw6?pano_id=1982592

wow, for me a fan of China's geography, I have to be frank, I only heard of 7....

Yes, all county-level

 

[shi12jun]

[媒体=的YouTube] JxrWeN9h_Es [/媒体]

 

[Daniel808]

I'm now sharing the panorama views of more less-developed areas in China. Below are all county-level administrative units in China. By saying "county-level", it means these "small" towns are NOT qualified to be classified as Tier-N cities in China.

For these really un-famous places in China, I will give their Chinese names too, otherwise I'm pretty sure even the Chinese members could not recognize which one it is.

福建闽侯, Minhou of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5e22cqa5ayn?pano_id=851842

福建晋江, Jinjiang of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5db2c9s6w1f?pano_id=1511136

福建罗源, Luoyuan of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/acfjOp4yuw3?pano_id=2324877

福建长乐, Changle of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/5212casdyyg?pano_id=707029

福建仙游, Xianyou of Fujian,
http://720yun.com/t/47d2bqbuu4f?pano_id=1087202

山西古交, Gujiao of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/17128wa6w1f?pano_id=58655

山西清徐, Qingxu of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/e9120xs8xtf?pano_id=1144363

山西安泽, Anze of Shanxi
http://720yun.com/t/c7b2cqiOxyg?pano_id=802429

福建石狮， Shishi of Fujian
http://720yun.com/t/867jOdewkw6?pano_id=1982592

Thanks for another updates @GS Zhou
Please, keep update more low tier cities and counties level in China, Loved it.

 

[The Sandman]

Those are small cities, but still the downtown's population could easily reach 1-2 million.
Traffic jams in those lower tier cities are terrible....
That's why trams, skyrails, light rails and even subways are being built in tens of small cities ("small" is refereed in regard of China's "big")/

This is a good design to integrate railways to the city landscape....
But I prefer railway tunnels at the very downtown....
Central axis of Tai'an City
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I like this one....
Each direction is completely separate.
If they want to build trams or BYD Monorail, very easy to upgrade...
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Looks like i got some really good ideas for my next city in "Cities Skylines".

 

[shi12jun]

[媒体=的YouTube] AWp3bjS5KoY [/媒体]

 

[ashok mourya]

Good to see...such a high populated nation like China is developing in such a big way...that why we have put you on our bench mark and trying to reach you but you are racing too fast..congrats

[媒体=的YouTube] JxrWeN9h_Es [/媒体]

Never expected India drivers can roam so easily in Chin.

 

[Gurjeet Walia]

wondering what PR stands for , "Public Relations" ?

LOL high school student?

I believe we've seen too many pictures of China's developed cities, like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. But how the less-developed cities in China look like? Especially these tier-5 or tier-6 cities? I'm now posting the links to show the panoramic views of these less-developed areas in China.

Click the arrow keys, you can see how these cities look like from any angle you want.

Dezhou
http://720yun.com/t/3922ccs8ylr?pano_id=1280348

Huangshan
http://720yun.com/t/2572cxau9lw?pano_id=1090998

Jiangmen
http://720yun.com/t/5b829mf69ta?pano_id=684700

Jiujiang
http://720yun.com/t/7a520wa5jug?pano_id=31588

Xinxiang
http://720yun.com/t/0b526mz5ulv?pano_id=428603

Zhaoqing
http://720yun.com/t/3e62dapgmyn?pano_id=651201

Datong
http://720yun.com/t/f9921xivcbs?pano_id=1044630

Quzhou
http://720yun.com/t/d49jOpuuka8?pano_id=2252413

Loudi
http://720yun.com/t/a7b29mbfjus?pano_id=506709

Beihai
http://720yun.com/t/cd927mOvuya?pano_id=1666812

Hanzhong
http://720yun.com/t/04b2fupgcer?pano_id=1611230

Binzhou
http://720yun.com/t/d12jOp4Otu2?pano_id=2329997

Leshan
http://720yun.com/t/04b2fupgcer?pano_id=1611230

Fabulous! these tier 4-5 cities gives tough competition to our Delhi & Mumbai

 

[shadows888]

Good to see...such a high populated nation like China is developing in such a big way...that why we have put you on our bench mark and trying to reach you but you are racing too fast..congrats


Never expected India drivers can roam so easily in Chin.

why not? Their not committing any crimes.

 

[Jlaw]

NICE observations
Where are all the people in USA tier 1, 2 cities ha? must be some "Ghost Cities" LOL
Sometimes its just too much to ask for you Indian's brain to functioning a little bit more human like.
"Jealousy killed is Real"
Check this out and then see if you can determine whether to shut up or continue shooting your curry bad breath as usual

New York

Knoxville, Tennessee

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Chicago, Illinois

Hi im from India. where are the people? Is this a ghost town?

 

[rendong]

Feixi County of Anhui ，A town in China。
http://720yun.com/t/954jz54y5w1?pano_id=5757029

 

[rendong]

Second tier City Kunming (Mand. pronunciation [kʰwə́n.mǐŋ]; Chinese: 昆明; pinyin: Kūnmíng) is the capital of and largest city in Yunnan Province, Southwest China.
http://720yun.com/t/0f626wOdqcw?pano_id=138989