UN: major Chinese cities at same level of development as developed countries

[Shotgunner51]

Thanks I guess.

You are welcome bro!

Just elaborate more: It's like looking at a man's "balance sheet" to see how well/bad he is doing, not asking much he spend every week. The term is called Net Worth, we call "rich people" as High Net Worth Individual. Similarly, that's one way to look at a nation, PIIGS are in bad shape, very bad.

On the opposite of the scale, you (HK) are the 4th largest creditor in the world, congrats!

https://defence.pk/threads/whos-worlds-4th-largest-creditor-nation.455610/#post-8807652

 

[cirr]

Hangzhou is a upper tier 2 city.
Hangzhou's wealth is not in the main city but its rural counties and villages....

The third expressway in Hangzhou's western mountainous counties and Quzhou City was inaugurated 5 days ago....
(some sections and service centres not open yet)

It's again a very obscure classification.......
The only confirmed cities are those big four in tier one, Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou/Shenzhen.....
Some have added lower tier one like Hangzhou/Wuhan/Nanjing.

I guess the main difference is on per capita GDP and total population....
You have to have strong per capita index as well as a big population to make a stronger tier 2 city.....

A simple example: Nanjing (upper tier two or lower tier one) vs Nanning (lower tier two or upper tier three)

Nanjing
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Nanning, Southwest China
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Again, the criteria is not about "high-rises".
Beijing has fewer high buildings but still a tier one.
Chongqing has more high buildings but a tier two.
The difference lies in education, medicine, high-tech economic zone, public transport, financial activity, urbanisation rate, etc....

We should not just focus on underdeveloped tier3/4/5 cities, but in many tier 2 cities (even in tier 1 cities) the room for development is huge.....Nearly all tier1/2 cities are developing at a growth rate more than 7%, tier3-5 more than 10%.

Tianjin also got itself into tier-1 according to the latest classification.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

My brother used to be in Wuhan 5 years ago . He said it was a great city . Then he moved to Shanghai for his MS in Shanghai Jiao tong university and he says wuhan is like a village compared to Shanghai .

So did your brother tell you another thing? - Shanghai is the least polite city in China!
Wuhan is a very old city in China. In accordance with the panlongcheng site (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panlongcheng). Wuhan existed for more than 3500 years! Have rich historical and cultural heritage. This is very valuable.
Shanghai? Only 150 years of history!
When Wuhan becomes a famous city in China, Shanghai is just a countryside. Real countryside.

 

[Khan_21]

So did your brother tell you another thing? - Shanghai is the most rude city in China!
Wuhan is a very old city in China. In accordance with the panlongcheng site (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panlongcheng). Wuhan existed for more than 3500 years! Have rich historical and cultural heritage. This is very valuable.
Shanghai? Only 150 years of history!
When Wuhan becomes a famous city in China, Shanghai is just a countryside. Real countryside.

It isn't a knock on wuhan . He had great things to say about the place . lets say you like capetown. But when you go to London you like that better . That doesnt mean that cape town is bad . One guy likes wuhan another guy might prefer Shanghai because of its outlook . Some people like old places eg Rome others like Skyline galore eg Dubai. Beauty is highly subjective and differs from people to people

He was implying how modern Shanghai was to anything else.

 

[AndrewJin]

Tianjin also got itself into tier-1 according to the latest classification.

lmao。。。。
Then Chengdu is tier one too....

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Man you Chinese are something to be taken lessons from. Nobody can match your growth the way you did in 3-4, decades. We are developing but will take a real time to reach your levels.
But I've seen all this construction leading to ghost towns in China.
I think Chinese should calm down a little they got a little emotional on construction thing

Honestly。 If India wants to realize the dream of "super power", Should first solve the problem of the cities. Don't be crazy for 3 years of development. Though he may be able to fool the Indian's eyes, But he can't fool the world.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Lets keep India out of this. They have their own road to walk.

It might be a litter strewn dirt path but they have their own dreams and aspirations.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Lets keep India out of this. They have their own road to walk.

It might be a litter strewn dirt path but they have their own dreams and aspirations.

Sure, as long as they stop trying to start flame wars in our threads, I will certainly wish them good luck.

 

[royalharris]

UN is so good at paint golden color to the face of so-called developed countries.
Compared with shanghai, NY even like a bullshit

 

[haidian]

It isn't a knock on wuhan . He had great things to say about the place . lets say you like capetown. But when you go to London you like that better . That doesnt mean that cape town is bad . One guy likes wuhan another guy might prefer Shanghai because of its outlook . Some people like old places eg Rome others like Skyline galore eg Dubai. Beauty is highly subjective and differs from people to people
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Agreed. Beijing probably is the least modern looking city in China due to her draconian height restriction rules on buildings to protect this ancient national capital,yet you can't say that Beijing is not beautiful.

Move over, New York. Beijing is the world's new billionaire capital

 

[shadows888]

Agreed. Beijing probably is the least modern looking city in China due to her draconian height restriction rules on buildings to protect this ancient national capital,yet you can't say that Beijing is not beautiful.

Move over, New York. Beijing is the world's new billionaire capital

the zun tower is being built, how did that escape height restriction? i don't see how long tall buildings would not "protect" the forbidden city.

 

[nang2]

I don't care about the major cities. I care about the average cities.

 

[haidian]

the zun tower is being built, how did that escape height restriction? i don't see how long tall buildings would not "protect" the forbidden city.

All tall buildings stand outside the 3rd ring road, away from the city center, the central government won't tolerate tall buildings overlooking Zhongnanhai government compound or overshadowing the ancient forbidden city and the People's assembly hall.

 

[shadows888]

All tall buildings stand outside the 3rd ring road, away from the city center, the central government won't tolerate tall buildings overlooking Zhongnanhai government compound or overshadowing the ancient forbidden city and the People's assembly hall.

That make sense, think they did the same thing in DC. buildings can't be tall so people can't overlook the white house for security reasons.

 

[haidian]

北京皇城保护区内限高九米，长安街限高250米，西延线限高120米，长安街沿线为保护景观整体性，以及鉴于阅兵时飞机要穿过长安街，所以长安街两侧高楼很少。

2014年发布的《门头沟长安街西延线城市规划设计实施导则》中再次规定，长安街西延线区域两侧建筑高度控制在80米。

另外，在2015年发布的《故宫保护总体规划》征求稿中提到，计划2025年之后，故宫周边的一类建设控制地带限高0米，二类建设控制地带不得超过3米，三类建设控制地带在9至12米。