Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance
🇨🇳 Chongqing in the day without the lights honestly looks a lot different
It's more gray and dare I say a lot of the buildings look quite derelict, kinda like when I visited Mongkok in Hong Kong
A lot of spots need some heavy maintenance, the stairs in this square have broken tiles, the main bridge of this square that's I think at the 22nd floor and full of tourists all day has its cables and bolts rusting away, I'm not a structural engineer but looks dodgy to me
I do think the lights at night are cool and impressive though but it'd be even more impressive if Chongqing would also be beautiful in the day without them
One relatedd thing I noticed that many Chinese cities and stations and airports do not have a lot of trees or plants, and it makes everything look kinda cold and functional. Like compare Singapore's Changi Airport with any Chinese airport or train station, it has much more aesthetic
I do know that Singapore is respected here a lot, as it is in the West, and I think in many things China can model itself after Singapore. Singapore is a strict rule based society which it needs, and China needs too, or it'd turn into chaos. And Singapore isn't perfect, but it's quite pretty and comfortable to look at aesthetic wise with plants everywhere and even on top of buildings and inside their architecture
But then again maybe we're just at the start. Start with some fancy lights, and then start cleaning up the city and doing more maintenance
I feel China is great at rapidly building new stuff out of the ground but then I don't see them maintaining it so well. In Chongqing particularly, I see so many things rusting or chipped and broken and it shouldn't be like that I think
Chengdu felt much better maintained, I wonder why?
Another thing is I see is that you don't see this stuff on YouTube Shorts or TikTok because it's short videos and then the fancy lights get easy views (like my video below of course too!) because you don't need to show many of the details
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