Our Guy in China

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I'd almost given up on TV tonight until I saw this.

Guy Martin examines China's history of innovation, technological development and manufacturing, revealing the unseen side of China's outstanding achievements. His adventure starts in Chongqing where he works in a factory to build his own electric motorbike, tastes produce from a farm that fertilises its crops with human faeces and visits the Three Gorges Dam, home of the world's biggest hydroelectric power station. In Shanghai, Guy ships his motorbike home to Grimsby before jumping on a high-speed train en route to Beijing
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Our Guy in India was a decent watch and I generally love all his previous Channel 4 stuff.

Three part series starts at 9pm on Channel 4 (Mon 21st November).
 
The first episode was a good watch. Very informative.

The Three Gorges Dam is a work of art.

This fact shocked me. It's apparently more cost effective to send Scottish cod to China to be filleted and then back again to the UK.

Looks like he might get into trouble next week. :p
 
I enjoyed this. I like his presenting style and the way he says "alright mate?" to literally every Chinese person he passes :p

That dam is a serious fear of engineering.
 
guy martin, cultural attache.

I like that he gets excited by simple things...I would too, big engineering always makes me happy
 
the scale of things is mind boggling...a city I have never heard of and its huuuuge
 
Enjoyed this a lot, always been interested in China and would love to go one day.

Three Gorges Dam:eek:, A city, towns, villages all under water to create this.

And I enjoy watching stuff with Guy Martin presenting.
 
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beachBOYken said:
Three Gorges Dam:eek:, A city, towns, villages all under water to create this.
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Can only happen in China, where the needs of the country outweighs the need of the people. God bless China.

Here, we can't even build an extra runway without people getting their self righteous knickers in a twist.
 
To be fair there was a time when he stuck whole villages underwater for the greater good, we've just softened up over the years.
 
Love Guy Martin (no homo), he's one of the people on my ideal dinner party list. I tell you what though, I want to go diving in that reservoir or even go down in a submersible. I imagine it would be very weird swimming/cruising around recently submerged cities.
 
Malevolence said:
Love Guy Martin (no homo), he's one of the people on my ideal dinner party list. I tell you what though, I want to go diving in that reservoir or even go down in a submersible. I imagine it would be very weird swimming/cruising around recently submerged cities.
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I was trying to google this to see if its been done yet but could not find anything. If it hasn't I'm sure it will be eventually.
 
The entire Chinese minder thing is just why we should not be doing business with this country.

Blame Thatcher and the USA.

Land wind ffs, great competition laws.
 
Malevolence said:
Love Guy Martin (no homo), he's one of the people on my ideal dinner party list. I tell you what though, I want to go diving in that reservoir or even go down in a submersible. I imagine it would be very weird swimming/cruising around recently submerged cities.
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hell yeah, i need to learn to dive, must be so many facinating places.

I also want to get one of these. https://www.kickstarter.com/project...-affordable-modular-hd-underwater-dr?ref=recs
think it would just be cool, going for a walk to random lakes, old mines etc and having a nose around under water.


and guy is awesome, first episode is great, china lacks landowners rights, while we have to many rights. I mean you essentially own the view in UK which is wrong, it stops progress. Should be a sensible middle ground. Where you only have a narrow and set reason for complaining and stopping building. also need to short these multi year legal debates that make projects multiply cost. not saying remove them, but need like a fast track court that hears the cases asap.

will catch up with next episode later to night when its up on demand.
 
...did (the) Guy just say Oolong tea has same flavour as English tea ! - I do not think he will be able to host a cookery program ... but the skyscraper filming was good.
afterthought - they should let the Chinese build HSP2
 
jpaul said:
...did (the) Guy just say Oolong tea has same flavour as English tea ! - I do not think he will be able to host a cookery program ... but the skyscraper filming was good.
afterthought - they should let the Chinese build HSP2
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819 miles Beijing-Shanghai railway - 2 years
119 miles HS2 - 9 years.

Ridiculous.
 
Seems they had a lot of people working on it too 130,000 peak was trying to establish mortality :( probably similarly bad for skyscrapers and Apple production.

incidentally xmas add by wwf during adverts , stolen a march on JL
 
Did Guy say that the building they were constructing had 80 metre deep foundations?

That's deep, but at the same time Im thinking is that deep enough for such a tall building!
 
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