qingdao，The 15th largest city in China

[ffmo123]

[Murphy de la Sucre]

Looking fabulous, heard it was a Germanized city.

[The Best Forumer]

In what part of the country is this? Looks nice.

[kel]

By far the cleanest nicest city in China.

[muppet]

Qingdao was a German Treaty Port in the 19th and early 20th Century, and still operates a Mitteleuropean vernacular, but mixed with everything else.


https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/10337...ff3d552ebef719


https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/10349...35762c0523fd53









But also a modern skyline


https://i.imgur.com/9O8h6KD.jpg



It's also a big maritime city, traditionally the gateway to Japan/ Korea now benefitting as a big port for the two biggest trade partners of China.


https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/10322...e3379a864e38db


www.chinadiscovery.com


Finally it's a tourist destination for the beaches and seafood, urban beaches for the city (a bit shit), but ringed with more upmarket resorts further down the coast, that's fast becoming a Chinese riviera






https://i.imgur.com/s3NXGFA.jpg


Oh and alcohol. The local beerfest attracted 7.2 million tourists last year - with the usual format of vast bier halles mixed with food, lights and rides to help you part with your stomach contents -the beaches proving very handy to soak up the vom.




https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d45544d3...1374196fc1.jpg

[muppet]

I'd hesitate on calling it the cleanest nicest city in China though, it's capital of a big rustbelt -long one of China's richest regions back when coal, steel and heavy industry was a thang, now in decline as the national demand becomes more eco-friendly. All of China's big cities are lean, green and super clean now in part thanks to Big Brother and the powerful environment lobby.

For example this is a third/ second tier city famous for its night markets, far inland and insanely crowded. Yet try and spot any crumb of rubbish:

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[The North One]

Wow, this city looks amazing.

[muppet]

Like almost all Chinese cities it has a nightly light show:

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[homebucket]

Very nice.

[Yorkie]

impressive indeed....the older part looks very German....people look on a map too educate yourself for the location......where it it???...near the ocean

[Murphy de la Sucre]

That Sunseeker 88 is one of my favorite yachts.

[muppet]

It's in northern China, traditionally the gateway port to trade and ferries from Korea and Japan.

[geomorph]

Originally Posted by muppet

Like almost all Chinese cities it has a nightly light show:

I am curious how this light show looks from various points on the ground, but from a drone it is fun to watch.

[muppet]

can't find one on Qingdao, but here in Wuhan (world's largest, over 300 buildings) it's at 36:30 and 41:21 and 46:27

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[Coldrsx]

Very impressive and one most certainly on the list.

[BnaBreaker]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Very impressive and one most certainly on the list.

Same here... wow... I've been to a lot of China's largest cities, but totally whiffed on Qingdao. Never knew this was a place I wanted to visit, but now, it's definitely on my list too!

[kool maudit]

I had no idea that (anything like) this existed.

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

I had no idea that (anything like) this existed.

me neither. It doesn't even look real!

[hkskyline]

Going to do a bit of advertisement for my 2017 thread on this city :

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=227850