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This paragraph pretty much sums up the potential of what China's Greater Bay Area has to offer: > Shenzhen has become a center for research and development tha

by smaili 7y ago

This paragraph pretty much sums up the potential of what China's Greater Bay Area has to offer: > Shenzhen has become a center for research and development that ranks alongside Silicon Valley. The area around the industrial city of Dongguan produces one-third of the world's jeans, while Foshan accounts for more than half of all refrigerators and air-conditioning units manufactured worldwide. Hong Kong is Asia's leading financial center and Macao is the largest gambling city in the world, with six times the gaming volume of Las Vegas. Ironically, using the Bay Area as an inspiration feels like Apples and Oranges given it's more tech-centric whereas this "Magalopolis" almost feels like a country within a country. Very curious to see how this grand plan progresses over the coming years.

bilbo0s 7y ago
>almost feels like a country within a country Exactly how I always saw the "new" China. Ever since my first intro to it in the early 90's. All of these are city-states trying to get as rich as they can, while acting as partners with each other for the favor of Beijing, and simultaneously competitors with each other for the favor of Beijing. If you go to all these places and they feel very different from each other. (At least, as an outsider they really felt different to me.)
AFascistWorld 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong'an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong'an Xi's brainchild. "millennium strategy". And new title for Shenzhen, "Frontier Demonstration Area of Socialism".
- segfaultbuserr 7y ago
  Upvoted. Xiong'an is literally backed by Xi's and it's going to be the 2nd capital city of China according to the plan. This comment meant to be a link for some insight on what the Chinese government's thinking on city planning. Shenzhen's title "Frontier Demonstration Area of Socialism" gives some hints for the upcoming political atmosphere as well. What I don't understand is: Why would someone downvote this comment?! It's nothing controversial and informative. Also, my comment on William Gibson's novel has been downvoted. I know using Hacker News for political and ideological battles are not welcomed, and I actively avoid doing it. I think the reason of being downvoted is mentioning "unrestricted growth under hypercapitalism"... But I was literally talking about the plot of a Sci-Fi novel and comparing it with China, I even added that "it's a pretty common cyberpunk theme", not meant to attack any real entity. Anyway, feel free to downvote, but I'd love to hear some feedback and comments from HN readers if someone believes a comment is inappropriate.
  - simlevesque 7y ago
    do not mention downvotes. " Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - sudoscript 7y ago
      I don't know about others, but it's not boring reading for me. I appreciate it when someone points out the downvotes and responds, as OP has done here. We shouldn't treat downvotes the same was we do trolls and ignore them.
coliveira 7y ago
There is nothing really strange about this new project, this is how most big cities in China were developed. The government planed future economic growth and then setup areas of development for each city.

by smaili 7y ago

bilbo0s 7y ago

>almost feels like a country within a country Exactly how I always saw the "new" China. Ever since my first intro to it in the early 90's. All of these are city-states trying to get as rich as they can, while acting as partners with each other for the favor of Beijing, and simultaneously competitors with each other for the favor of Beijing. If you go to all these places and they feel very different from each other. (At least, as an outsider they really felt different to me.)

AFascistWorld 7y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong'an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong'an Xi's brainchild. "millennium strategy". And new title for Shenzhen, "Frontier Demonstration Area of Socialism".

segfaultbuserr 7y ago
Upvoted. Xiong'an is literally backed by Xi's and it's going to be the 2nd capital city of China according to the plan. This comment meant to be a link for some insight on what the Chinese government's thinking on city planning. Shenzhen's title "Frontier Demonstration Area of Socialism" gives some hints for the upcoming political atmosphere as well. What I don't understand is: Why would someone downvote this comment?! It's nothing controversial and informative. Also, my comment on William Gibson's novel has been downvoted. I know using Hacker News for political and ideological battles are not welcomed, and I actively avoid doing it. I think the reason of being downvoted is mentioning "unrestricted growth under hypercapitalism"... But I was literally talking about the plot of a Sci-Fi novel and comparing it with China, I even added that "it's a pretty common cyberpunk theme", not meant to attack any real entity. Anyway, feel free to downvote, but I'd love to hear some feedback and comments from HN readers if someone believes a comment is inappropriate.
- simlevesque 7y ago
  do not mention downvotes. " Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - sudoscript 7y ago
    I don't know about others, but it's not boring reading for me. I appreciate it when someone points out the downvotes and responds, as OP has done here. We shouldn't treat downvotes the same was we do trolls and ignore them.

coliveira 7y ago

There is nothing really strange about this new project, this is how most big cities in China were developed. The government planed future economic growth and then setup areas of development for each city.