The life of the poor behind the streets of Guangzhou, China.But you can find pleasure here 

Love these kinds of videos. High quality, no stupid music, no annoying overdramatic host with annoying voice .... just the pure ambience of local life. Thank you

Being poor does not mean you have to be dirty and disorganized or disorderly. I know alot of people who dont have money, but they still sweep and clean. I lived around the Tianhe area and walked in streets like this, except definitely less tidy. That was before the pandemic and I can say it is interesting place to stay and learn about how other people live.

❤❤ better than anywhere. A little poor but Peaceful, Safe & clean community. I can live there with those people happily. From South Korea.

So CLEAN! Safe. Hard working people together. All the best from Poland. 😍 Love China.

The small street is amazingly very clean and seems quite peaceful.

The cleaniest alley I've seen. It's narrow but clean. Some dark spots but safe to walk by.

where is the life of the poor here. didnt see anything. they just live a simple life, but poor I cant see it here. My inlaws live also in Guangzhou, similar home somewhere in Xiue Xiue district. Yes, houses from the 50s/60s. But, they are pensioners already, and receive from the government a total of CNY 12,000. Which is similar as my mother receives in the Netherlands as pension. So, because the streets look tiny and the houses from 50 or 60 years ago, doesnt mean they are poor.

I see clean, safe alleyways and hard working people👍🏼❤️

It looks nice to be honest, everything is clean and organised with no smelly garbage piled up anywhere, most people seem to be riding either bicycles or electric scooters so it's relatively peaceful and safe to walk and go about your business and just live. I live in Indonesia here there are far far worse areas of poverty than this, even in Bali one of the world's most popular and busiest tourist destinations.

Guangzhou is one of the places I would like to visit. Some people had said it was dirty and some had sworn that it is an amazing place. Guess I need to find out for myself and take that adventure. Definitely got motivated after seeing this video. Thanks for sharing.

POOR? Do not see homeless, beggars or street gangs. Looks safe and happy people walking around

strength and encouragement to the people of china! you are an example to the world!

Here in the USA it would be littered with dirty used needles and homeless drug addicts.

It is a different side of the city, not usually seen by tourists/visitors. It is appreciated. Thank you for sharing.

I observe well-kept, secure alleyways and diligent people.

Unlike other parts of Asia with poverty, this place is as clean and pristine as it gets, same goes for the whole country generally.

Wow. I used to live in southeast Guangzhou, where I had my own lighting company with a Chinese partner. I lived in the Tianhe district several miles south of the computer store, University and downtown. My apartment complex was modern and really nice, but our shop where we built lights was in a section to the east of there, towards the train tracks, that was exactly like this. The maze through the tower blocks of apartments always reminded me of Blade Runner. I was amazed that it was like walking from microcosm to microcosm of extremely dense neighborhoods, all scrunched together, each with its own unique features and people. Eventually, after walking to and from work through these mazes, I actually began to know my way around. I began recognizing people from area to area as I navigated the narrow alleys. At first, it was a bit creepy, being so unaccustomed to such a strange scenario. But, I learned where the good street food was ... where the best markets with the freshest food were, where to get a haircut, buy cellular minutes, etc. Being the big westerner (6-foot, 275 pounds) that walked through nearly every day, standing out like a sore thumb, I got a lot of odd stares and heard a lot of "Whaaaaaa!"s as I walked by. But, people eventually started smiling and saying "Hello" to me. I was accepted as belonging there, and they definitely made it known to me. The sights, sounds and smells of that adventure in my life will be with me forever. Thanks for this, you just let me relive a walk to work!

In China, this is called: Village in the City!!! Most of the people living here are migrant workers from other provinces. Because the rent here is very cheap, I like this kind of place very much, because it is very lively, and you can find everything you want to eat here. Although it is very poor, it is very clean, and everyone is very friendly and helps each other. Also, not all of them are poor, many of the landlords or locals are very rich. Although it is very shabby here, the housing prices are unimaginable!!! Haha

I know several areas of Guangzhou who has these small alleys. Not cheap living in the alleys around Taikang Road close to Beijing Road. Living there doesn't mean they're poor

Looks like fun to explore. I remember exploring Japan like that 20+ years ago.

These poor areas look way better, cleaner and safer than skid row or Kensington.

I notice how clean those narrow walk ways are. Interesting.

Been to China 14 times through work. Everywhere was clean like this and it was really safe there.

Holy cow, these places look poor and depressed, an image of China that you don't often see on YT videos. But after a while, I realized that there was a marked absence of vagrants, homeless people, drug addicts, abandoned buildings, vacant lots with overgrowth--not even trash, even those narrow alleys looked clean. And I thought to myself that if I were poor and destitute, I would give my back teeth to be like the people who live and work there! Mr. Chen, do you have any videos of areas with trash, vagrants, homeless people and drug addicts in China?

As a developing country, we still have a long way to go❤️

But the key fact here is that, you can be safe walking thru an alley way like this in china! I have been going to China for years, almost 2-3 times a year. It is as you seen it in this video!

China and East/Southeast Asia are the only regions in the world where you can enter such areas without getting mugged, beaten, or killed. Try this in any other place and you wouldn't live to upload your video. Goes to show how safe Asia is compared to many other parts of the world.

Great, it always amazes me how clean China is, even in the narrowest and darkest ally ways, spotless, workers working happily, couriers picking up from restarants. Even China's so-called poor, are clean happy people. A nation that the West should look to on how to treat people. Every country has poor people, but in the US and other Western countries they are kicked to the gutter. Look at the videos of the American and British poor, absolutely destitute.

I was amazed at how clean everything was around China. Some places looked old but not trashy. I was able to travel from Beijing to the South to Beihai, and stopped at Changsha and Jinan. Very friendly people, only saw two homeless people and only had people trying to sell me stuff around the Great Wall. The cops ended up running them off.

My only experience with Guangzhou was spending several days there with a girlfriend. I didn't know that chicken feet are a favourite food in Guangdong. I found the flavour excellent but, like most Westerners, I thought there were too many bones to enjoy the dish. I also climbed Mount Bayun. When we summited, I was surprised to see oldsters singing traditional Chinese folk songs next to a hillside where screaming people in giant wire round cages bounded down the slope and an entire bamboo bunji jump was working at full capacity. One of the rural delights I experienced was in Qingshan fishing village. Before tourism, the men of Qingshan where we were told that until recently were too poor to marry, were actively engaged in human husbandry. An interesting sideline is we were fed two ocean vegetables that didn't grow anywhere else on Earth. Qingshan is on the West slope of Mount Lao, China's tallest coastal mountain just east of Qingdao.

i'm american living in rizhao for ten years. even in the impoverished country side, its still cleaner than my native new york city. the city itself is incredibly clean.

las provincias menos favorecidas de China sin duda tienen un mejor nivel de vida que el sector sur de Santiago de Chile. desde Chile los saludo, con la sana envidia de siempre

All the alleys are so clean 😉

Looks like i place I would love to visit. All of the are so respectful and have such good manners. Thank you.

Those narrow streets look awesome! I love it. Maybe it's just me.

En USA solo encuentras mugre en los callejones. En este video China evidencia que la humildad no va de la mano de la suciesa, el ruido y la basura. La disciplina lo es todo. Un pueblo disciplinado alcanza el desarrollo de manera inmediata. Toda América debería seguir los pasos de esa gran nación llamada China. Saludos.

This looks safe, quiet and clean to me. Def many many worse places to live in UK

It’s all moreBS about China they’ve created. A new renaissance in the world they have the most beautiful cities in the world their airports are incredible their rail way system is amazing o eggars on the streets 😊

I enjoy walking on many of China's alleyway. There are no trash, smell, poop, sewage water leftover and security issue like in many other countries. So it's quite an interesting experience & something that everyone can enjoy without fearing for their life (especially for woman). At least the ones that I've been to.

Not as poor and desperate as the homeless living on the streets in America. In fact they look well off , well fed as well as a decent roof over their heads.

That was remarkable. It was great seeing China in such an interesting way.

Poor? Have you seen the videos of the streets in LA?

I love cities that have neighborhoods with small streets. They are so much fun to explore.

I'd rather be poor in Guangzhou than poor in Hong Kong.

this is so much better than Kensington or LA camp ground .....

so exciting to explore the back alleys, can find unexpected pleasures

My wife has a brother and sister that live in Guangzhou in one of the poor areas right by a school. We visited there 7 years ago and it was a very pleasant place to visit. Never once did I feel unsafe while there and everyone that I got to meet and encounter on a daily basis at the stores were all friendly. The only thing I encountered there was two men running down the street one day. The man out front was running for his life while the man chasing was running him down brick in hand. When he got close enough he hit the man in the back of the head with a brick. Apparently the other guy had stolen his wallet and he wanted it back. Of all things the man that had his wallet stolen pulled the other guy up holding him in a choke hold and dragged the guy to the police station that was set up there.

It’s quite clean actually. I was just in New York Times Square and it was filthy dirty! With homeless everywhere.

When I first arrived in Guangzhou, it was in the city centre where I stayed the most at the start. Lived out near Canton Tower for a few years. Didn't really see places like this in the city until I met my wife. She was from an area like this. I have been visiting places like this now a lot. People are used to me visiting my wife's family now, but at the start, I got stares and curious looks, especially from kids. I feel a lot safer here than certain places where I grew up in the West.

It's strange, they look very poor, but the land is very valuable. To be precise, they are rich.

Greeting from Vietnam, nice to know you

I love the 气氛。 Love China from Russia

überall sehr schön sauber und ordentlich ... kein Graffiti und homeless people

25 years ago I roamed in this sort of alley in Guanzhou. It wasn’t hygienic and place was dinghy. Today, it is clean and improved. Reflection of my memory.

Not a single homeless person, this is just perfect

It's clean and Safe 🖐️👍🙏🏽❤️💯🤩

I live since many years in Panyu district. This video was filmed in a village in Huangpu district if I read the street signs correctly :) Surprisingly not many people wearing a mask, it is understandable then why the situation with the latest outbreak is as severe as never before in the past 3 years... Generally can not say they are all poor, especially the house owners. The land in this area has quite high value now. I also experienced shop owners of messy looking shops, but living somewhere in nice and high price areas at top floor big apartments.

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Wow, those alleyways are very very clean! Not even a leaky pipe dripping water.

This is a new experience for me, being able to walk here. exciting night. thank you for sharing.

What an amazing maze! Love watching your posts; real and very interesting!

Well, I did not see any rubbish in these poor, narrow streets, which is an indication that these residents will have a much better future because they respect their surroundings.

素晴らしい動画！

*视频不錯！兄弟們找心仪的女孩子上课看這！* 😉😉😉

Soo crazy the buildings are Soo close together I Can't tell if it's day or night.

What I dont expect is its clean and neat, wow.

I don't see poor..I see beautiful woman. Hard working folks..and most of all they are lean an healthy. Didn't see 1 over weight person 👍🏼

*很不错，兄弟们不管在哪个城市，这里都有心怡的女孩可以玩！* 😉😉

no tents or druggies everywhere like US

It actually looks nicer than some of the backstreets in Manilla, Philippines.

Sure looks better than some of the major cities in the United States. I recently watched some videos of Philadelphia and San Francisco with deplorable living conditions, just horrible with all of the homeless people and the epidemic of drug addiction. So sad to see our once great cities in such decline.

From the look of the alleyway housing. It used to be a small village in the style of Canton area, but this village got swallowed up by urbanization nearby by being surrounded with high rise buildings and nearby new shops building that attract all type of new people.

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They make the most of their life with dignity in a low profile life .

This area doesn’t look poor but it may be a poor area. It’s hard to tell because the community kept the area very clean. The streets and sidewalk doesn’t have trash and there is no gum on the floor. Nice.

Que recuerdos, antes de la pandemia anduve por esos lugares, con mis amigos le decíamos la China profunda.

看起來街道很乾淨，跟網路媒體上說大陸很髒的的訊息根本不同，看來髒的是網路媒體

Didn't look poor to me, it looked very clean and well maintained. The only thing I didn't like was the motorbikes riding through but I suppose you get used to that.

I don't see homeless , the streets are clean, no kids are begging for money and food. And I understand China has a huge population. So it's normal living on a stiff or narrow alley.

Most of the scooters look electric. Good at least for the air quality in those narrow alleys.

Good Place. Clean and with no much noise..

No trash, no drug, no violence, clean, organized street, people wearing decent cloth and enjoy their lives. If this is not the purpose of having freedom, then I don't know what you are talking about.

This is an example of a healthy poor class, bravo to China 🇨🇳 👏

*這真不錯！兄弟們找心仪的女孩子上课看這！* 🗨🗨‍

"But you can find pleasure here"... and VD.

我是意大利人，我知道中国人喜欢 意大利，因为我们意大利人非常热爱中国和中国美丽的人民！中国也必须得到帮助，而不仅仅是受到美国等其他国家的批评，因为中国是全球范围内一个非常强大的经济大国;中国正在向全世界传授教育！加油中国！ CHINA!!!

what camera did you use? did you also use gimbal stabilizer? So smooth 👍

It is regrettable that in the 22nd century there is a huge social difference between the entire history of humanity, here in Brazil it is no different.

華やかな中国の都市を見るより、こういう人々の生活が近くに感じれるところの方が見てて好きだな

Wow....and clean.

加油！加油！加油！

"Life of the poor"? All the allay ways and streets are very clean. No trash anywhere. I'd be happy to live there.

What an interesting looking place! At first since "poor" was in the title, I was expecting more slum-like conditions. However, despite the compactness of their living space, those alley ways look clean and well kept. Props where it is due on that note.

It's so clean 😧 It's dark but I don't see any rubbish. Is that place really poor???

辛苦都是為了生活

Feels raw and alive. Camera is steady. Nice work.

Amazing how clean the streets are

Look better than the whole of Africa.

The pleasure would be shocked if a foreigner strayed here. Or the double price would suddenly be demanded. 😅

No matter where you go in this world, there's one constant. People just trying to eke out a living the only way they know how...