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Great video and editing. What China has achieved is truly incredible. For anybody young and commitment free (or even just commitment free), you should go there

Great video and editing. What China has achieved is truly incredible. For anybody young and commitment free (or even just commitment free), you should go there. Cool people, so much opportunity, and you get to live in the heart of a rising super-power. Also, that guy speaks Chinese like an excited teenager.

FreakyT 9y ago
> For anybody young and commitment free (or even just commitment free), you should go there. Are there english speaking startups one could work at? Are work-permit requirements doable?
- liuw 9y ago
  There are tons of foreigners in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen so there must be some ways to get into the country (and work there). A few years back a friend told me work permit was easy to get as long as you got a sponsor. Not sure how hard it is today though.
- dfguo 9y ago
  Strikingly is a YC-funded company based in Shanghai. We sponsor visa. Typically, a person with 2 years of working experience can get work visa issued in few weeks. We are hiring people in engineering, sales and marketing departments https://www.strikingly.com/s/careers https://www.strikingly.com/s/careers
slfnflctd 9y ago
The infrastructure projects alone are fascinating to me. It's like traveling back in time to witness Eisenhower's interstate highways going up in the 1960s, only bigger and better. > that guy speaks Chinese like an excited teenager So, in the modern American documentary interview style even when everyone's speaking English, then?
mc32 9y ago
He might have lived there in country a while and simply copying a popular style of light reporting. It's not unusual.
tondoter 9y ago
> Cool people, so much opportunity, and you get to live in the heart of a rising super-power. You probably have never lived in China. China has an authoritarian government that censors everything (last checked, livestream and korean pop music and every good external websites outside China), which means there's no such thing as 'cool' in china except dictated by the government. People in China are mainly concerned with making money, and getting the heck out of China. As for opportunity, China's stagnant economy (crashed stock market, 2nd bubble bursting in shanghai real estate) and middle income trap status means that only Chinese citizens are preferred in any opportunities. Thus restrictive visas and anti-foreigners sentiments abound. 300%+ gdp/debt ratio and strict capital controls mean that the economy is basically one black swan away from a collapse. Rising super-power.....only people who believe that are the wumaos that Chinese government send out to perpetrate western websites. There's nothing cool, innovative, or powerful about China.
- colordrops 9y ago
  Your view is binary and doesn't reflect reality. I've lived in China 9 years. Despite an oppressive government, the ingenuity and perseverance of the people can't be completely contained. I absolutely do not condone the Chinese government's behavior, but that doesn't mean I will write off an entire region of over a billion people in one simplistic swoop.
- factsaresacred 9y ago
  > there's no such thing as 'cool' in china except dictated by the government. People in China are mainly concerned with making money, and getting the heck out of China. Lived there for 5 years, hung out with some great people and some great adventures. There are a billion people so, of course, YMMV, but perhaps you're the reason for your bad experience? I agree with the getting the heck out part though. Unless you've a good job, or another way to float above a surface of society still broken from Mao's tragic destruction, China can grind you down.
blackbagboys 9y ago
Unfortunately, while the Chinese people are fantastic, the most recent round of government repression has made it extremely difficult to live and do business there as a foreigner- and of course, the very air is frequently poisonous.

FreakyT 9y ago

> For anybody young and commitment free (or even just commitment free), you should go there. Are there english speaking startups one could work at? Are work-permit requirements doable?

liuw 9y ago
There are tons of foreigners in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen so there must be some ways to get into the country (and work there). A few years back a friend told me work permit was easy to get as long as you got a sponsor. Not sure how hard it is today though.
dfguo 9y ago
Strikingly is a YC-funded company based in Shanghai. We sponsor visa. Typically, a person with 2 years of working experience can get work visa issued in few weeks. We are hiring people in engineering, sales and marketing departments https://www.strikingly.com/s/careers https://www.strikingly.com/s/careers

slfnflctd 9y ago

The infrastructure projects alone are fascinating to me. It's like traveling back in time to witness Eisenhower's interstate highways going up in the 1960s, only bigger and better. > that guy speaks Chinese like an excited teenager So, in the modern American documentary interview style even when everyone's speaking English, then?

mc32 9y ago

He might have lived there in country a while and simply copying a popular style of light reporting. It's not unusual.

tondoter 9y ago

> Cool people, so much opportunity, and you get to live in the heart of a rising super-power. You probably have never lived in China. China has an authoritarian government that censors everything (last checked, livestream and korean pop music and every good external websites outside China), which means there's no such thing as 'cool' in china except dictated by the government. People in China are mainly concerned with making money, and getting the heck out of China. As for opportunity, China's stagnant economy (crashed stock market, 2nd bubble bursting in shanghai real estate) and middle income trap status means that only Chinese citizens are preferred in any opportunities. Thus restrictive visas and anti-foreigners sentiments abound. 300%+ gdp/debt ratio and strict capital controls mean that the economy is basically one black swan away from a collapse. Rising super-power.....only people who believe that are the wumaos that Chinese government send out to perpetrate western websites. There's nothing cool, innovative, or powerful about China.

colordrops 9y ago
Your view is binary and doesn't reflect reality. I've lived in China 9 years. Despite an oppressive government, the ingenuity and perseverance of the people can't be completely contained. I absolutely do not condone the Chinese government's behavior, but that doesn't mean I will write off an entire region of over a billion people in one simplistic swoop.
factsaresacred 9y ago
> there's no such thing as 'cool' in china except dictated by the government. People in China are mainly concerned with making money, and getting the heck out of China. Lived there for 5 years, hung out with some great people and some great adventures. There are a billion people so, of course, YMMV, but perhaps you're the reason for your bad experience? I agree with the getting the heck out part though. Unless you've a good job, or another way to float above a surface of society still broken from Mao's tragic destruction, China can grind you down.

blackbagboys 9y ago

Unfortunately, while the Chinese people are fantastic, the most recent round of government repression has made it extremely difficult to live and do business there as a foreigner- and of course, the very air is frequently poisonous.