China and Transportation: What We Can Learn In The United States

China's economy has been the envy of the world for a decade, but what about its transportation system? With the largest population in the world and growing, maybe we should be looking at its mobility. The economic superpower has built a 21st century road system to keep up with its new appetite for cars.

Transportation economist and Vice President of Policy Research at Reason Foundation, Adrian Moore, says that China is using "pricing scientifically" to keep up with the largest car market in the world. He sat down with Reason.tv to talk about what many are calling, "the most important bilateral relationship in the 21st century."

Moore has been working with China on free market transportation solutions for booming cities that are attracting hundreds of thousands of people every month. China's demand for cars is being driven by its new middle class, which is roughly the size of the entire population of the United States.

Doing transportation right is something China can't afford to do wrong. Moore explains what it is doing right, wrong and what this "capitalist country" can learn from the "avowedly communist system".

Filmed and edited by Sharif Christopher Matar.

Approximately 10 minutes.

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[AnotherUserNamedPaul]

I wish the freeway built on the front doorstep of the headquarters office for the factory I work with was done by a private entity because maybe the factory would have been paid for the land that was seized and the huge inconvenience of a roaring loud freeway a few feet from the building.

Government deciding where a road goes and then contracting with a firm to build and maintain it is called crony capitalism.

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@RamirezRobertoPerez

U in every "China" tagged vids?

[Condom007of007Solace]

I got kinda missleaded, I thought the title meant What the Chinese can learn in the United States.

[brianng999]

@RamirezRobertoPerez You fail if you don't see that the example of mexico was just used as generic example. Almost all countries in the world have some policy with regards to immigration. They do not want to deal with illegal immigrants. They put a drain on the economy while not contributing much at all.

Millions of ppl die in Africa I don't see the west doing anything serious about it except throw them "aid".

[chimak3d]

We Chinese have the concept of "build bridges or roads can make a village rich" for thousands years. 

[RamirezRobertoPerez]

@brianng999: Again ur an idiot. Mexicans once sent back to Mexico don't get EXECUTED, and their ENTIRE Family does not get killed. Millions of refugees? a there are already several tens of Thousands of North Koreans in China.

[brianng999]

@mootant Just an example. I'm pretty sure illegal immigration is a problem taken quite seriously in the US. Yes those r the hypocrites

[mootant]

@brianng999 Other than obvious socialistic racism being bad you're just wrong. If the poor people from Mexico didn't do low paid jobs in US it'd fall apart. :P Americans love to spread bullshit about freedom/democracy but when it comes to people freely moving around and working they shut their mouths instantly.

Furthermore, I know about a Mexican that imigrated to USA and made a company that hires at least 10 Americans.

[brianng999]

@RamirezRobertoPerez The americans spend a lot of money keeping poor-ass mexicans in mexico. I think it's very reasonable to not want millions of refugees flowing into your country.

China essentially provides all of NK's food, NK just directs it to the army. In any case it is NK's problem, not China.

You're clearly possess a below average intellect. Relax, your brain might start hurting.