Chinas growth is amazing

I came across a cupple of pictures that blew me away, so i wanted to show you guys

1996

and today

Cool looking city. What city is it?

Cool looking city. What city is it?

narlymech

Funny, I just read that their growth is stagnating and the jobs picture looks bleak.

I thought communism wasn't about the money. Fightingfan

What 90% of people (especially americans) know about communism is pretty much all wrong.

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]I thought communism wasn't about the money. Gargus

What 90% of people (especially americans) know about communism is pretty much all wrong.

Not really, Japan and South Korea did this decades before China using a similar source of economic growth, as well as Taiwan, many European countries like France, Germany, Italy, .etc. The only difference is sheer scale - China's population is larger than all of these other countries combined.

Funny, I just read that their growth is stagnating and the jobs picture looks bleak.

jimkabrhel

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]I thought communism wasn't about the money. Gargus

What 90% of people (especially americans) know about communism is pretty much all wrong.

You mean fixed economies and very authoritarian governments?

Did I get anything wrong?

I am aware that China has a market economy.

without labor laws and environmental protection, you can go far.

still, in 20 years, the chinese economy will crash.

I came across a cupple of pictures that blew me away, so i wanted to show you guys

 

1996

 

and today

 

osirisx3

[QUOTE="osirisx3"]

I came across a cupple of pictures that blew me away, so i wanted to show you guys

 

1996

 

and today

 

buccomatic

How do you know they were both shot during the daytime?

I thought communism wasn't about the money. Fightingfan

You're about 30 years late on that one, while China is still ruled by the CPC its been moving away from ideological communism since Deng Xiaoping.  Now they're more authoritarian technocrats who put growth oriented policies as their top priority.  

Anwyay, I find Shanghai's skyline amazingly awesome, and that's just one of many rapidly growing cities over there. 

I came across a cupple of pictures that blew me away, so i wanted to show you guys

 

1996

 

and today

 

osirisx3

Ohhh looks like a perfect map for battlefield games, they should put it in there.

Also the picture is taken closer, 1st shot is at daytime, 2nd shot is also daytime with heavy pollution. Not a fair comparison.

It's US greatest danger IMOHiddai

[QUOTE="Hiddai"]It's US greatest danger IMOdeeliman

[QUOTE="deeliman"][QUOTE="Hiddai"]It's US greatest danger IMOSNIPER4321

[QUOTE="deeliman"][QUOTE="Hiddai"]It's US greatest danger IMOHiddai

[QUOTE="deeliman"][QUOTE="Hiddai"]It's US greatest danger IMOSNIPER4321

[QUOTE="Hiddai"]It's US greatest danger IMOdeeliman

[QUOTE="deeliman"][QUOTE="Hiddai"]It's US greatest danger IMOEmpCom

I used to live in Shanghai for a few years when i was a kid. It's surreal going back there now.

[QUOTE="deeliman"][QUOTE="Hiddai"]I don't know man. all this stability (as a western country citizen) when US is the most powerful contry in the world and when China will be, this stability will change and might cause a new cold war (a war which happenes all the time but i mean the scary version of this war)Hiddai

China is now computer generated?

[QUOTE="deeliman"][QUOTE="Hiddai"]Speculation based on the history...yeah...Hiddai