Our Guy in China C4 9pm.

[Laurel Green]

New series 1/3.

Guy Martin examines China's history of innovation, technological development and manufacturing, revealing the unseen side of the country's achievements.

[poing]

Thanks for the reminder, planner set to record as it zombie time at 9pm

[Laurel Green]

Zombies I'll be under my desk if anyone wants me!

[KTF]

Not really sure what the point of this is. Not really learning much?

[Laurel Green]

anonymous said:

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Indeed, inexpensive too. Would imagine about 3.5k over here. I know there is an off road equivalent(perhaps a tad more powerful)made in New Zealand which retails around £5.5k.

ETA: The above mentioned are not foldable.

Edited by Laurel Green on Monday 21st November 21:53

[Adrian W]

st!

[MonkeyBusiness]

Not great viewing. Scraping the barrel with this program.

[FourWheelDrift]

KTF said:

Not really sure what the point of this is. Not really learning much?

That behind the communist controlled scenes it's still a run down st hole?

[trooperiziz]

I thoroughly enjoyed that.

[speedking31]

He seems to be avoiding saying everything twice. He seems to be avoiding saying everything twice. Which is nice.

[AdamIndy]

T'was a good show! Certain parts were eye opening to me at least. Flooding villages etc for the dam and that dock!

[ajprice]

"Nee how, y'alright mate."

[hora]

I quite liked that. I avoid his speed etc shows but this was better.

[Rick101]

Just catching up on it. Very good, will look out for the next one.

Amazed me how that dam was built. 13 cities, 140 towns flooded all for the greater good.

[bobski1]

That dam was crazy, started in 94, completed in 2012 & paid itself off in 2013 but imprisoning the people protesting against it....


When he was just walking around on his own towards the end was brilliant, ni hao a'right lass

[RemaL]

I have it recorded to watch and looks good, but then again i'm a fan of Guy

[Sonic]

AdamIndy said:

T'was a good show! Certain parts were eye opening to me at least. Flooding villages etc for the dam and that dock!

We did that a while ago with Haweswater and Thirlmere in the Lake District... just on a slightly different scale

[cmsapms]

Sonic said:

We did that a while ago with Haweswater and Thirlmere in the Lake District... just on a slightly different scale

Not to mention Ladybower and Scammonden

[youngsyr]

KTF said:

Not really sure what the point of this is. Not really learning much?

Not really learning much? I learnt a lot (for a semi-documentary) and I've been to China.

Some of the points I learned:

- China's huge manufacturing output isn't about lots of big factories with automation, it's about having a huge amount of people doing very manual work in small factories (e.g. the moped engine testing guy putting his ear to the motor to check for faults!).

- The level of fake goods out there is every bit as bad as the rumours (e.g. Land Wing!)

- The Ghost Cities so popular with the Western press aren't failures because they're currently empty, they're actually awaiting the urbanisation of millions of rural Chinese over the next 20 years - that's some forward planning!

- Just the sheer scale of the place e.g. Felixstowe docks, the largest docks in Britain is 13.5 square miles, the port he visited was 1,400 miles square, they have a bridge that is 20 miles long!

[Lead]

I first visited China in 1986 and was amazed at the use of manpower to get things done. One morning I saw a three lane highway being cleaned - by a line ( across all three carriageways) of middle aged women with brushes!. At the time there were very few cars and those that were on the roads were all for government officials. The `observers` in those days were many.