I live there 50% of the time. It’s a fascinating city. Thanks for posting this!
I visited chengdu, and chongqing back in 2013. I really enjoyed it there, and everyone was so nie and friendly. We went to see the pandas but we went at the wrong time of the day, and they were all resting and hiding. I really did like those little red pandas that looked like long tailed cats.
I like Zhuhai, but chungdu is a great place to live, and central to all sorts of outstanding natural and scenic sights.
We went to get a massage and the gals told us that they loved chengdu because the flight out were so fantastically cheap. This is because the panda bears are a world heritage site. cool huh?
What China has done in the last 30 years is impressive.
Is it a threat to the U.S.A.?
Much of the improvement was planned in the West, and was done with stolen U.S. technology.
But, the U.S. did similar things as we caught up to and surpassed Great Britain.
I have said the U.S. Interstate system is the greatest mass transit system in the History of Man.
But, 24,000 miles of fast train can give it competition.
Over the past year, I’ve watched probably 20 hours of YouTube videos of Chengdu, South African guy who has settled into the landscape there and really talks to the positives of the city. As he hints strongly...the city authorities have an image that is beyond anything else in China and it’s based on people having few complaints to whine about.
The thing that gets me is that it’s in the middle of nowhere (nowhere near the coast), and since 1980 (at 2.5 million population then)....it’s grown at an enormous pace.
i was only there for 2 days on business last year. What I was able to see was very impressive. It is the one city in China I want to take my wife to if possible. Shanghai was interesting but Beijing was an overpopulated dump. With about a 1/2 mile visibility on most days.