City on Steroids: Vanguard

[MrChitoast]

I'm pleased that the reporter is interested in his roots, but his approach is very western-minded, he doesn't even seem very comfortable with chinese customs, poor westernized chinese..

[mattsnow81]

Chinese people seem to be great! One hell of a pollution problem though.

[LaBeefy101]

The Chinese never think long-term, that's why everything they do is shit.

[Menuki]

America sucks, 99% live in such horrible conditions, we are being oppressed.....

Other countries laugh at our complaints.

Do you think the Bang Bang men worry that the loads aren't OSHA approved? When's the last time an American felt lucky they could own land?

Personal space?

Indoor plumbing?

The ability to even consider throwing food away?

Seems ridiculous in comparison

[Salladsdressing]

@Menuki

99% live in horrible conidtions in America? You got to be kidding me =P

[Menuki]

@Salladsdressing They really need to invent some kind of punctuation for sarcasm.

The whole #Occupy movement is to protest how "horrible" the 99% live like here. I have traveled a great deal in my lifetime. As an American, I find this arrogant self pitying disgusting. Much of the control and freedom we have lost has been us signing it away through apathy.

[corey01851]

lol at dudes teeth 1:48

[Jsmooth7444]

People in other countries seem so smart compared to Americans...We in the USA are so dumbed down by drugs and shitty media influence (news, reality TV, commercials..) that we can't think critically. Its sad.

[NeoTranshuman]

@Jsmooth7444 Speak for yourself.

[PrimeTargetSecurity]

how many of you are familiar with the self-contained city the chinese are building HERE IN IDAHO and other states? yeah. We are quietly giving areas to china devolpement, look into it. check my "beware of anything china" playlist or research yourself. they'r comin fast.

[PrimeTargetSecurity]

u can google earth china's huge ghost cities and see how huge but empty they are

[Ladyerica54]

Adam Yamaguchi is HAWT!!! <3

[mikeshane11]

I live in Chongqing. I dont think any video could accurately describe this place. I live right near the "Chrysler Building" that was pointed out. Since this video has been released, the skyline of Chongqing has already changed dramatically. 6 new buildings are taller than the Chrysler building - A new one is going up right next to it and it will be the tallest building in West China. I came here to open a few restaurants. Chongqing has a lot of potential. Come Check it out!!!!

[vincently1231]

@mikeshane11 hey man thats pretty cool. i would love to live in chine

[bennopia]

@aluisious obviously you never drove a (USSR) Lada or a (German) BMW in the 1980's. :)

[yucute]

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[CanadianBear47]

i love current but all these ads are getting on my nerves :(

[marumito]

Oohh mahjong!! My Favorite!!!

[FukGlobalWarming]

I was so offended when that entrepreneur near the end says "The low level workers" are effecting the city negatively. Sure, those "low level" people are the ones who are building your city for you to reap the benefits. What an asshole.

[Scars831]

16:00 im feelin that beat lol



[MrReymoclif714]

Remember all the boomtown feel we had back in the roaring twenties and then the corruption of the administration along with the idiotic banking practices back then hurled us into the Great Depression! Inflation and false sense of security!

[VelaToNorma7]

CNN, FOX, CBS, and every other new network are controlled by the Illuminati created to brainwash the masses just as celebrities are sent to do.

[kaziboy264]

lol less than 1% of Chongqing's population is local...so

[HearingEveryRhyme]

23:44 Looks like China needs to develop its hipster population...

[HearingEveryRhyme]

I would not want to lvie in one of those towers during an earthquake, or just live in it period. China-made does not make me feel secure lol.

[vincently1231]

@HearingEveryRhyme well then u shouldnt ever be secure because more than half the shit we import is from china

[jupiterben]

i just came across this channel, its great but the commercials are annoying..worht it i guess

[MrReymoclif714]

Ihave a friend from high school 37 years ago who is now working closely with high up government officials in California and he made a comment to me that China spends a far greater amount of it's G.N.P. on infrastructure than the U.S. and this is why China is going to become a serious leader in the world economy! According to him we are acting like idiots in the actual way to grow and proeper as a nation should. After watching this video I am starting to think he might be on to something!

[KhmerTruth]

@MrReymoclif714, I think America isn't in the prime of the growth period anymore. It's just in the mature stage, perhaps. America's biggest concern isn't growth. It's sustaining the growth it has achieved. Every society has its life cycle. China is in the growth period. That's why some people feel threatened by China's expansion as it undermines their current status. Just same old parable.

[underdg22]

@MrReymoclif714 Central planning never works! The Chinese government is building empty cities in the middle of nowhere (Hohot) that make their silly GNP stats look good. The problem is that a lot of these "infrastructure" projects are completely wasteful and only good for boosting stats. Just like the old Soviet Union, stupid Americans think the foreigners have discovered some new secret and are going to take over the world.

[MrReymoclif714]

@underdg22 I'll do some heavy thinking on the strategem you've postulated and something tells me you might just have a point there! They are building on mud with houses of straw! Far out!

[aluisious]

@underdg22 Central planning does work. The USSR beat Germany with centrally planned industry when 20 years earlier their had been no industry. South Korea developed from central planning.

What you say is basically a religion. You have no proof to back your dogmatic statements. You're pointing out the problems of central planning like empty cities, but you ignore the same problems in our own economy due to the "financial sector" stealing huge portions of our economic production.

[massacrelord]

the car should be called " I love you long time"

[warero]

bang bang men 

[warero]

"300 million chinese studying english" thats the whole of USA damn

[Afrocanuk]

@QuantumQuacks You're one of the rare persons I see using the word "than" correctly. Usually people, (particularly from the U.S.) incorrectly uses the word "then" in its place.

[bubbapuffpuff]

it is fucked up by me to even think like this, but if you are to pit to nations against each other in an all out war, id like to see china vs russia, china is the most awsome nation in the world, no nukes allowed and china would eat russia for breakfeast and rape them for lunch

[arrowofG0d]

@bubbapuffpuff and the US would rape both.

[bubbapuffpuff]

@arrowofG0d no, the US would rape thier own citizens and tell everyone that mexico did it

[arrowofG0d]

@bubbapuffpuff what the fuck does that have to do with war

and that was the stupidest fucking response i've ever seen

[bubbapuffpuff]

@arrowofG0d haha, yeah, kinda like bacon

[arrowofG0d]

@bubbapuffpuff you're a fuckin crack addict

[bubbapuffpuff]

@arrowofG0d and you are a brazilian, go eat a shemale

[arrowofG0d]

@bubbapuffpuff i was born an raised in California faggot, shut your mouth it`s easy to talk shit on the internet don`t be jelous cuz Brasil has beautiful woman that you cant get cuz your ugly ass doesn`t know how to talk to woman

[bubbapuffpuff]

@arrowofG0d its really easy to talk shit on the internet, retard, im from sweden, most beautiful women in the world, while your father needs to work as a gay prostitute in chinatown, and hows your mother after the sex change?

[arrowofG0d]

@bubbapuffpuff haha ur stupid. like i said, talking shit on the internet is cheap. meet me in person an say that shit. since that well never happen, shut up and good day.

[bubbapuffpuff]

@arrowofG0d fuck you, ive got the body of conan the barbarian and the fightingskills of liu kang, in person id roundhouse kick you to the moon and eat your family for breakfeast, shit them out, rape them and eat them again, thats how bad ass i am, shut up and good morning

[heomak]

@bubbapuffpuff i visited sweden recently and i'm sorry to say but NO , swedish women aren't the "most beautiful women in the world"(as u claim)...italian and indian women are way better looking than the generic swedish blonde(who might not even be naturally blonde). .but that doesn't mean all italian and indian women are good looking..there are good looking people in every country.

[heomak]

@bubbapuffpuff also.check out the chinese model SUN FEI FEI..she's way better looking than any swedish woman i've seen yet.

[tichergeorge]

@bubbapuffpuff brazil and Argentina has the most beautiful women in the world and america has ugly fat fucks with their economy ran by mcdonalds

[ricestube]

i ate sichuan food half the sauce is sauce other half is oil. mmm.... yum

[Spetznaz]

wow, look at the sky... what sky? you cant see shit! oh wait, yes, you can see shit its all over the sky

[foxyfoxcold863]

Mr ron is great, great personality, good man, hope things work out for him and his family

[warsawjoker]

@QuantumQuacks possibly the sexiest comment ever

[briancab]

adam is so cute!

[MauroSDMF]

vanguard rocks

[MichaelLarson29]

i would never buy a lefan car there cheaply made they dont care if a person dies, there ugly as fuck and the most expensive cars they have look like a shitty toyota corolla made in the late 90's if they ever came to america there would be more people dead in those cars than any other car makers

[dymd3z]

China is renowned as a place that makes shitty products. They need to change that stereotype before they ever try to reach a global market, specifically the first world. Unless their goal is to still dominate dollar store shelves...

[AsianTaliban]

@dymd3z if thats the case a toilet roll in america will cost 10$

[Chrismonchan]

Sorry, but this is disgusting lol.

[FireAndFlames]

Incredible to think this ONE city, which I have NEVER heard of, has more people in it than the entire state of Ohio...

[FireAndFlames]

Man, my dad and his family are all first generation Chinese and at reunions I always gag a little bit seeing my aunts and uncles chowin down on pork snouts and earlobes. Blech!

[kanserstyx]

i doubt thats fog! i have never seen red fog!

[Godcomingwithsword]

Obeying Holy law, personal relation ship with God, growing spiritually, is the ONLY way to escape JUDGEMENTY DAY. If u don’t have any of this you going to HELL.

[carrotwolf]

@Godcomingwithsword stfu and go advertise your god crap somewhere else, praying is not going to get us out of the world recession or stop any wars, in fact it's because of religion that most wars started in the first place, religion was used way back in the day to scare people back in line and to have power but now welcome to the modern world where we found out that most of it is garbage and bullshit.

[RWOOMTL]

These Bang Bang men are modern day Chinese Atlases.

[VideoQuestEx]

Like the old saying goes, "you can't stop progress......"

Of course, there are very real, very significant consequnces for such rapid forms of urbanization & industrialization.

Environmental pollution is just one of them.....

[1johncain]

wow...pretty nasty. looks like another big social engineering experiment with the potential to wreak the same kind of havoc as was seen under Mao. he tried remaking the place, and result was over 30,000,000 dead. oh well, i'm sure they'll make more...

[LuisVuiton]

today i descovered the vanguard reportage and this is the 3rd documentary i see i dont belive vanguard it is so much better then cnn or euronews thanks for posting vanguard now is wery late nigt and i still waking tomerow i will gonna be tyred to work but i cant stop waching :))

[Vegetakhan]

OMG this so much like India. I wish China and India join together and take over the world!

[VideoQuestEx]

@Vegetakhan:

With each countries' current leadership, all they would do is spend time battling each other over the "top spot."

[Vegetakhan]

@VideoQuestEx dude i was ironic man. Both countries need a good non biased young government not some old illiterates governing just to make thier fat bank account fat. more like american government which is so far the best in the world. I know how american peoples are feeling. I feel sad for them. I wish Indian government doesnt accepts outsourcing.

[VideoQuestEx]

@Vegetakhan:

I kinda figured you were being ironic, by the way.

I had just seen some documentary on cable that talked about the past friendship & enimity between both India & China, along their borders, info which is little known in the west.

My previous remark was just my humble attempt at humor, in regards to the overall 'competitive' nature of both countries' government & their desire to continue growing economically & militarily.

[kaozbender]

lol at the engrish "zank yu"

[CONSTRINGACY]

Too many asians!Something needs to be done there flooding the world!Well if we are lucky 2012 will get rid of a big chunk of them!

[gangstergirl554]

okay guys, just because they're in an economic trouble doesn't mean you can bash them :|

[PsychedelicVideos]

THESE CHINKS ARE CRAZY!

[sweentnhot0104]

Despite of the fact that the lady in 22:00 speaks with perfect vocabulary and grammer, I can't understand her words without the subtitles

[MrDontmakemecomeover]

That Vanguard Dude looks so Dorky... FOB... fits in with the local Yokols..

[Vegetakhan]

@MrDontmakemecomeover u r an ass adam's awesome! better than white guy!

[MrDontmakemecomeover]

@Vegetakhan ...he looks like a Dork.. just like you Dork!

[Vegetakhan]

@MrDontmakemecomeover lol iam not in the mood of feeding a no life troll!

[RedPhoenix230]

good luck mr. ron!

[JogBird]

The smoking rates in China are insane.

[caa1591]

@JogBird they are higher in the US and many western countries

[headsnapstokes]

he nails it with married with children ha

[ownage157]

Dude, that bang man is IN SHAPE! His abs, and his triceps were showing without even flexing. damn son..

[scwam]

I want to be a Vanguard correspondant. My wife is a Chinese national in Dalian and I could show Vanguard some aspects of the foreign trade market that would surpise them.

[deltaf22]

ok that big gray circle is the "sun" but the neon lights are from the "night time" (in the painting) oh that explains! when it's dark here, the sun is in China! ~~~ uh that didn't make sense!

[oppositronic]

27:27 "logt" lol

[wonszlol]

A lot of these 'low educated' persons are better people then the middle/higher class citizens ;/ Mr. Ron is a perfect example of that, I admire that man and hope him and people in similar situation the best!

[mrzack888]

these people should be looking for work instead of playing cards at 2pm

[erickallen102]

Its amazing.

There growing at 8% a year, while at the same time they build the majority of our textiles and buy our debt.

Vigorous and dynamic.

[wdp11683]

they should do a follow up to this.. i bet they're suffering since the global economy is shot to shit

[numbah12time]

What happens when cocaine and oxy makes its way into the city? lol or is it hard for them to get drugs?

[Natahathan]

It is near impossible, The government control on everything coming in is ridiculous.

[kenialopez62]

were they playing chinese poker at the table?

[kenialopez62]

be nice.

[plottotakethemdown]

biggot

[LockerzPawn]

fuck you

[digitsync2]

China has lots of mouths to feed unless the government system improved, it is a very fragile

country.

The leading countries life styles are maintain by the cheap laborers and low EPA standard of China.

[TheWorld4all]

great growth in China but the constructions are shoddy, products are cheap...

[digitsync2]

It's like early days of Japanese products, give it time China products will improve. Many products made in China under US or Japan brands are good quality (Dell computer, IBM hinkpad).

[Futuregohan14]

I love these videos about China's growth and the new changes its bringing. The sheer scale of it all is just fascinating to watch. Current did a really good job on this one.

[Tahmmo]

they are so many man, maany.

[joshuagundamu]

people looking for work...... surely communism is the solution to all our economic woes......(sarcasm) ........(though one could say so about capitalism as well LOL)

of course if the gov. left capitalism alone, it would rebound, but no lets keep bankrupt businesses going..... stupid.

[rulis124]

40% in cities - by 2010 (thats in half a year) - The Word will change in an exceleration impossable to Grasp.

(and I Love It :D )

[methodology101]

Adam Yamaguchi said it best, "Married with Children [is the best representation of America]". Good work. Nice transparency.

[crabslayer85]

Very interesting documentary.

[yufeizhou]

haha lost 45 cents

[langerCAN]

2 things about cars in China.

1. SO MANY BAD DRIVERS. (no racial) It's just that since cars have just come up overnight there are no good regulations in place, so you get a lot of people owning cars who can't drive.

2. 99% of the cars there are terrible quality. So unfortunately we probably won't see any in america.

[langerCAN]

anybody else notice that at 1:53 - 2:04 that guy is saying got easier for the whole time? lol subtitiles ;)

yet another awesome video from current. this channel is more informative on global issues than CNN or FOX combined.

[TheHaybot]

@langerCAN fox isn't informative at all

[BeNzMoVeMeNt]

@langerCAN Fox is full of idiots.

[Chaillzz]

@langerCAN CNN and FOX are propaganda canals.

[sailoveshanna]

I actually think desperate housewives reflect a good portion of the American society. He should have told them to watch "the Wire", after that they should have a balanced perception.

But definitely not the show Friends.

[saikasha712]

I think, after seeing this video, this is why America probably won't be keeping up with China anytime soon...they're willing to do whatever to make China amazing, and they're doing a pretty good job at it so far :)

(We're willing too, but I don't think it's the same kind of willingness)

[sailoveshanna]

I think they are willing to do whatever to put food on the table. Most of the people being documented ain't going to experience these amazing developments that they are helping build. Even the reporter said "I don't know if that's progress" commenting on the conditions of the city.

[langerCAN]

exactly what I was thinking. I don't really know how this will hold up long term either, but I think that the idea of this "cultural experiment" is really cool.