Exploring China's Huge & Facinating Road Network | The Grand Tour

CA 1 #TheGrandTour #ChinaRoadNetwork #FactsAboutRoads Exploring China's Huge & Facinating Road Network | The Grand Tour 3,825,032 views Feb 16, 2019 53K 1.7K Share Save The Grand Tour 1.44M subscribers With a motorway of 84,000 miles - more than any other country - the trio explore China's incredible and vast road network. » SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ1S... Watch Full Episodes Now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsthegrand... Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegrandtour Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegrandtour Join Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May as they travel across the globe on their Grand Tour. A show about adventure, excitement and friendship… as long as you accept that the people you call friends are also the ones you find extremely annoying. Sometimes it’s even a show about cars, reviewing Italian classics, hot hatchbacks, muscle cars, pick-up trucks, luxury vehicles and more. There’s something for everyone (If you like middle-aged men doing things with cars, then this is the show for you!) Prime Video has thousands of popular movies and TV shows, including award-winning Amazon Originals, plus live sport and more. All included with Prime! #TheGrandTour #ChinaRoadNetwork #FactsAboutRoads 11,631 Comments Auggie Giuseppe Add a public comment... John John 2 weeks ago No surprise, after all we are talking about a nation that built the 20000km great wall 2000 years ago, on the top of mountains! 317 K Khalifah K Khalifah 1 week ago Visited Guangzhou before the pandemic hit, I was floored. If Europe wanna get cocky with its stupid vaccine passport politics, screw em... I'd happily spend all my tourist dollars exploring China in the future. 175 Rag2018 Rag2018 1 month ago I think i am starting to realize why the "west" fears china 418 Ric C Ric C 2 weeks ago That is why we must bring freedom and democracy to China, slow slow down their progress of building a better future for their citizen. 104 James Douglas James Douglas 1 month ago I was in China in the 1990's, travelled a lot. Lots of bad, scary roads, beaten up buses, locals on horses. In 2014 I trekked around some of those places. In the middle of nowhere on the Tibetan plateau at 3-4000M altitude there were hundreds of KM of gigantic elevated highways like in this video under construction. It was stunning. 178 Wise Shabba Wise Shabba 2 months ago Meanwhile in South Africa 🇿🇦 the roads pot holes can change a radio channel or even take you from front seat to back seat 2K hehehoho hehehoho 1 month ago britain: haha yes we will close off half the road to ease congestion 727 Joe Daniel Joe Daniel 1 month ago China did perform a economic miracle No one can't deny that 62 Sakura Lim Sakura Lim 1 week ago At last, I come across one true positive news of China by the West. 24 Leisure Club ➊ Leisure Club ➊ 1 week ago America + other western countries be like: China needs Democracy ...Lets invade China next xD .... kill innocent people..loot resources... topple govt... That's called Democracy xD 75 David Davidsonn David Davidsonn 2 years ago (edited) meanwhile in the UK it costs £20 millions to build a roundabout... 15K Michenerpark Michenerpark 3 weeks ago Boris Johnson said China has lots of issues and doesn't share the same values as the west. Boris wants to show China how to run a country like what UK did 77 Not Nice Not Nice 1 month ago lived in china 4 years,, they are amazing,, they build sooo many new super mega projects like building , roads, parks , malls , structures.. and they are not stopping. they spend billions and making trillions. 51 Julie Zaremskiy Julie Zaremskiy 1 month ago The fact that their roads around mountains cause such a little environmental impact is unbelievable 110 Dickson Sisya Dickson Sisya 2 months ago Beautifully China. Chinese are the most hard working and the great Civil Engineers in the world. 105 FH M FH M 2 months ago UK Government " we have £100 million to invest in roads " Contractors " We spent £90 million on sub contractors and their contractors sat drinking tea and eating biscuits looking busy doing nothing " 1.2K maxdfj maxdfj 1 week ago Chinese leaders are engineers, not politicians. That's the big difference. 125 Bogdan Stan Bogdan Stan 1 month ago Meanwhile in Romania 🇷🇴, the holes in the road are so big you can go fishing in them. 279 Mark Nealon Mark Nealon 2 months ago I first went to China in 2012 and I came back raving about the motorways having seen the route from Chengdu to Kunming. Nobody I told about it seemed to really get how impressive it was, glad to see a video to back me up. 330 Changyi Liu Changyi Liu 1 month ago Australia will take 5 years to do a feasibility study...and cost 20 million 132 Ratplague707 Ratplague707 2 months ago In my city in the US there's a section of road that's been under construction for my entire life. 1K Sakhya Mondal Sakhya Mondal 2 weeks ago (edited) Infrastructure of China shows that their government is really trying to develop their country. 167 Xel Kim Xel Kim 1 week ago Damn. i see why some countries continue to smear China and 'convincing' people to hate china 12 andrew mc andrew mc 1 month ago I lived in china - i am from Australia - we are doomed here also! it takes workers here over two years to build a small couple of ks freeway to the airport. China are showing the west how it should be done - you have to admire them. 46 Saranciuc Saranciuc 1 month ago Once you see this, you realize the level of corruption in your country.... 99 Rudol Von Stroheim Rudol Von Stroheim 1 year ago The Chinese build 6000 miles of road each year. Meanwhile in Britain, it took a team of construction workers 3 weeks to fill in a pothole in a road near my neighbourhood 7.3K doublestrokeroll doublestrokeroll 1 month ago Man, China is such a beautiful country. 45 Sionnach MacBradaigh Sionnach MacBradaigh 1 month ago As America continues to argue over investing in infrastructure on a very, very, very modest level. The US is also doomed, completely doomed. 31 Queen David Queen David 1 month ago I APPRECIATE THIS VIDEO THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED AS MOTIVATION. 102 Jeffrey Craig Jeffrey Craig 1 month ago Had not seen this until now. As a son of a career-long civil engineer specializing in roadways with Caltrans, this was all totally mind-blowing. I was never interested in going into civil engineering myself, but thanks to everything I picked up from my father's career, what China is doing is simply astonishing. 148 tabyac tayto tabyac tayto 2 years ago 20 years ago it took 15 hours from my hometown to shanghai. Now it only takes two and half hours I love the high speed train 3.2K redshadow redshadow 1 month ago Meanwhile in Mumbai, we perform rain water harvesting on public roads across the city every monsoon season. 53 k0c1l k0c1l 2 months ago If trump hired a contractor from chinese, "the wall" would be real right now. 617 Kwasi GYAMENAH Kwasi GYAMENAH 1 week ago China is just unstoppable and super power in the making. 12 Cam35mm Cam35mm 1 month ago An honest assessment... Doomed Why the ruling elites of Britain still want to hide under America skirt, only they would know.