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China Creates a Supercity Around Beijing, Changing Lives (130 million people)
The New York Times ^ | July 19, 2015 | Ian Johnson

Posted on 07/19/2015 1:59:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

YANJIAO, China — Every morning at 5:30, Liu Desheng joins a dozen retirees waiting for the express bus to Beijing from this small city in Hebei Province. They stand at the front of the line but never board, instead waiting as bus after bus pulls up, each picking up 50 people from the ever-lengthening line behind the retirees.

Around 6:30, their adult children arrive. The line, now snaking down the street, has become an hourlong wait. People cut in, and a shoving match breaks out. But the retirees have saved their children this ordeal. When the next bus pulls up, the young adults take their parents’ places at the head of the line and board first, settling into coveted seats for a 25-mile ride that can take up to three hours.

“There’s not much I can contribute to the family anymore,” Mr. Liu, 62, said as his son waved goodbye from a bus window. “He is exhausted every day, so if I can help him get a bit more rest, I’ll do it.”

The Liu family’s commuting habit is a small but telling part of a megacity in the making....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; economy

1 posted on 07/19/2015 1:59:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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These people need to learn about advance ticket sales.


2 posted on 07/19/2015 2:12:45 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good God, it would be he’ll on earth.


3 posted on 07/19/2015 2:16:13 PM PDT by Husker24
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China is a House-of-Cards.

A vast, powerful, belligerent, nuclear-armed House-of-Cards.

This will not end well.


4 posted on 07/19/2015 2:18:02 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Today's Democrats are much more Fascist than Communist; but Sen Joe McCarthy was still right.)
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Pretty darn scary


5 posted on 07/19/2015 2:19:47 PM PDT by WHBates
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If I were Chinese, I would walk up and down the line offering a rental gun so people could shoot themselves. Money up front!


6 posted on 07/19/2015 2:20:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is the life city planners envision for us.


7 posted on 07/19/2015 2:27:14 PM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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That picture of Yanjiao looked right out of some Orwelian science fiction movie. Rows of identical 30 story residence buildings as far as the eye can see of a sterile main boulevard.

I have to wonder China’s real suicide rate. Maybe that is their plan for population control. Encourage suicide by lifestyle.


8 posted on 07/19/2015 4:19:57 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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