"The sanitary conditions here are also too bad!" The last tenant's stuff is still here! Jordan Taylor's boyfriend pointed to the head of the bed and frowned.
Delhi guest houses
The protagonists in the picture are Jordan Taylor and her boyfriend. As an American girl who loves Chinese culture and has lived in Shenzhen for many years, Jordan Taylor has had a huge curiosity about India, the world's other largest developing country, in recent years. In order to gain an in-depth understanding of India, she and her boyfriend finally found time in their busy schedule to travel to Delhi, the capital of India.
Jordan Taylor
Unexpectedly, the two had just arrived at the hotel after getting off the plane, and they were completely disappointed in this trip abroad. Because the five-star hotel next to the airport is ridiculously expensive, Jordan Taylor and her boyfriend had to stay in an ordinary hotel in old Delhi, and the extremely poor sanitary environment immediately caused the disgust of the two people as soon as they entered the room.
Jordan Taylor's boyfriend
Not only were the beds in the room a mess, but there were hundreds of tenants' belongings next to the pillows. Because it was the indian rainy season recently, the mattresses and sheets were wet to the touch, and it was not a place for people to sleep. There is also no water heater installed in the bathroom, and if you want to take a bath, you can only use it with a bucket of hot water. What is even more difficult to accept is the shortage of electricity here, there will be a power outage every three to five minutes, and when there is good luck, there will be calls in half an hour, and there will be no calls even after one night.
toilet
After a few days of living without electricity and no internet, Jordan Taylor and her boyfriend couldn't help but cry out loud that they were about to be tortured. Jordan Taylor does not understand why the gap between Delhi and Beijing is so large in the capital of the same developing country. In Taylor's eyes, not only Beijing but also Shenzhen, where she has lived for a long time, the development of all aspects has completely crushed Delhi.
The streets of Delhi
Delhi's crowded and noisy streets, old drainage facilities and poor hotel environment have not a single place for Jordan Taylor and her boyfriend, and probably only affordable Indian food can give them a little relief. But China's Beijing or Shenzhen not only has a variety of food to eat everywhere, but also more spacious and clean streets, a well-developed and convenient urban drainage system, and affordable hotels with good environments.
The streets of Beijing
So how big is the gap between New Delhi, the capital of India, and Beijing, China?
It should be known that India, as one of the fastest growing economies in Asia in recent years, according to market statistics, India's annual GDP is as high as 3,000 billion US dollars, and in some years it even surpasses China. As the capital of India, Delhi's urbanization is accelerating, and now with a huge population of 25 million, it is the second largest city in the world, and population experts even predict that by 2030, the total population of Delhi will exceed 35 million.
The streets of India
Delhi not only has a huge demographic advantage, but also has a strong historical background. Both the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Dynasty built palaces here. The British colonial period also always set up the Governor's Palace here, and after decades of painstaking management, Delhi has become the center of India's political culture. After India's independence in 1947, Nehru University, one of India's best universities, was established in Delhi in 1969 in honor of the country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru University
As a large city in India with a population of 10 million, Delhi not only has developed light industries such as cotton and wool textiles, but also heavy industries such as steel and wood processing. After entering the 21st century, emerging technologies such as information technology, networking, finance, and tourism and catering have developed rapidly, and the proportion of the tertiary industry has even approached the standards of developed countries.
India factory
How has Beijing, China, developed in the past decade? First of all, starting from the successful hosting of the 29th Summer Olympic Games in 2008, the iconic buildings such as the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube of the world-class gymnasium have aroused unanimous praise at home and abroad, and after the successful conclusion of this world-renowned event, the status and influence of the mainland in the world have risen rapidly. Compared with the capitals of developed countries, Beijing's infrastructure construction has reached the international advanced level, with a subway mileage of nearly 700 kilometers, ranking the forefront of the world.
nest
Delhi, India, has not yet hosted an Olympic event, and the only records that can be held are the first Asian Games in 1951, the ninth Asian Games in 1982 and the Commonwealth Games in 2010. At that time, in order to hold the Commonwealth Games, the Indian government, under the pretext of improving the appearance of the city, ruthlessly expelled more than 60,000 homeless people from the city. Delhi's GDP reached a new high of US$67.8 billion this year, ranking 42nd in the world.
Commonwealth Games
In the same year, Beijing's GDP was $147.6 billion, more than double delhi's. Who would have thought that a decade ago, the GDP of both cities would remain around $30 billion, and the gap between the two cities would widen in just a few years. Since then, Beijing's development has been even more out of control, with a GDP of 3,537.1 billion yuan in the decade from 2020 to 2020 alone, and the per capita production income is close to the income level of middle-developed countries. Delhi's GDP that year was only $210 billion, far less than half of Beijing's total.
imperial palace
In comparison, the living standards of the people of Delhi today are almost the same as those of Beijing in 2010, and in terms of infrastructure, public construction such as the Delhi Metro today is far from meeting the standards of Beijing in 2010.
The most common form of public transport for Delhi's people is still public buses, which take in more than half of the city's residents every day. As a faster and more advanced subway rail transit construction, until the end of 2016, only six subway lines were opened in The city of Delhi, with a total of 142 stations and a total length of 183.63 kilometers. Beijing has opened 14 subway lines 16 years ago, with a total length of 336 kilometers, covering the entire Municipal district of Beijing and connecting with high-speed railways and ground buses. Until 2019, there were as many as 23 subway rail transit routes in Beijing, with a total of 405 stations and a total length of 699.3 kilometers.
Delhi buses
At the end of 2018, Beijing's public transportation mileage even reached 22,255.8 kilometers, with as many as 1,000 public tram routes and more than 25,000 public buses. And unlike delhi's buses, which use traditional energy sources, all buses in Beijing are powered by electricity, which is energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
Beijing bus
In addition, the taxi industry in Delhi, India, has also been directly crushed by Beijing. According to statistics, Delhi's taxis are still dominated by traditional tuk-tuks, which mainly rely on human pedaling to move around is not only poor in safety, but also inferior to ordinary cars in terms of speed.
Finally, let's compare the gap between Delhi and Beijing airports, as capitals, both cities have world-class airports. Located southwest of the city center, Delhi's famous Gandhi Airport, with up to 43 million annual pick-ups, is the most important international airport in South Asia worldwide. As one of the world's largest airports, Beijing Capital Airport is the international shipping transportation center of China and even the world, with an annual number of pick-ups of about 81.929 million, second only to Atlanta Airport in the United States.
Beijing Capital Airport
Not only is it under pressure in economic and transportation construction, Delhi has also suffered from environmental pollution all year round. Located on the west bank of the Jumna River, a tributary of the Ganges, Delhi has a subtropical monsoon climate, and the extreme heat after the end of the rainy season is very unfavorable to the spread of pollutants in the air, coupled with the large number of fireworks and firecrackers set off in the city every year on The Indian Diwali festival, which makes air pollution worse. In addition, the exhaust of diesel-powered vehicles emitted by as many as 500,000 diesel-powered vehicles in Delhi has continued to reduce the air quality in the city.
The streets of Delhi
As early as the 2014 Global Air Pollution Survey, 13 cities in India were among the top polluters, with Delhi having the most serious pollution index. Therefore, Delhi, an ancient city with a long history, still has a long way to go to become an international first-tier city compared to Beijing, China.