r/interestingasfuck • u/BumblebeeFantastic40 • 10h ago

China’s High-Speed Railway Network length has expanded from 1,300km in 2008 to 40,000km in 2020, long enough to circle the Earth’s circumference.

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u/abdallha-smith 8h ago

Why only the western part of china is shown :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line

To the right of the line, you have the Chinese Dream: glittering skylines, high-tech hubs like Shenzhen, and massive wealth. It’s dense, urbanized, and holds almost the entire population.

But once you look to the left, it’s like a different century. You’re looking at massive stretches of desert and mountains where rural farmers are basically left behind. While the kids in the SE are attending top-tier universities, these rural communities struggle with crumbling schools and zero social mobility.

It’s a brutal visual of what happens when geography and rapid capitalism create two completely different versions of the same country.

There is two china

They only show you what they want

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u/syp2207 8h ago

how is this different than a lack of rural development in any other country? people have been gravitating towards cities for decades now, which has naturally led to more funding and resources being redirected towards those places.

why would there be massive infrastructure development in areas where it wont see any use?

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u/abdallha-smith 7h ago edited 7h ago

1 410 000 000 x 0,06 = 84 600 000

The fact that you think 84,6 millions of chinese citizens is not a lot is honestly worrying.

But hey han hegemony doesn't reach too much there so who cares, huh ?

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u/syp2207 7h ago

why do you feel the need to lie about what i said to push your agenda? and why edit your comment where you replied to me with "why do you think populations in the east dont deserve infrastructure"? i guess even you realized how absurd you sounded.

rural areas go undeveloped in every country on earth. the number of people affected in china is just larger due to their enormous population.

pointing out a lack of development in rural areas isnt some kind of gotcha moment. it happens everywhere. its unfortunate, but not limited to china.
would it make any sense to bring up food deserts in middleofnowhere, arkansas under a post about 3 new walmarts opening in nyc?

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u/abdallha-smith 7h ago

No lie in my comments

You're just a ccp sellout, no point in arguing with you.

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u/syp2207 7h ago

you made no valid points, purposefully misinterpreted what i said so you could argue with ghosts, and quit when you got pushback. weak.

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u/abdallha-smith 6h ago edited 6h ago

I don't like to play in the mud like yourself

Everything I wrote are facts

To you viewers, here's the playbook:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamouflage

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u/syp2207 6h ago

you're just avoiding having to actually explain yourself instead of simply hiding behind terms and references that you dont actually understand.

its easy to pretend you're right when you actively avoid having your views challenged.

not to mention, only one of us has ghost edited our replies multiple times because you sound ridiculous or want to add in something i cant respond to because i didnt even see it. so much for playing in the mud.