Both are new cities in the coal chemical industry – which one, Yulin or Ordos, is more livable?
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Yulin and Ordos are both emerging coal chemical cities located on the Loess Plateau. Hundreds of millions, even billions, of yuan are invested in these cities each year, and over the course of a decade many large-scale coal chemical projects have been built there. Both of these cities are developing new urban areas. For example, in Ordos, the Kangbaza New City was considered to be overdeveloped a few years ago and was dubbed a \"ghost city\". What’s the situation there now? ? Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of coal chemical industry workers work, live, and conduct their daily lives in these two cities. Is transportation convenient? What is the climate like? How are the supply conditions? Is the food service industry developed? Let’s all discuss this from various perspectives
Kangbashi is doing very well now; there are many more people there. I go there every year, and the number of people keeps increasing. Traffic congestion is quite severe in some areas
This post was last edited by The wise are enlightened on 2020-8-9 at 12:21. None of them are suitable – the environment is poor, costs are high, housing prices are steep, and there is a lack of educational, medical, and elderly care facilities.
But if you work there
Let’s start with transportation. Neither city has high-speed trains, but both cities have airports
Indigenous people are not very familiar with this; in companies established in the past decade, multiple dormitory buildings have been built, and employees’ daily routine basically consists of going from the dormitory to the cafeteria and then to the office – a straight line of three stops. Older employees move back and forth between their homes and workplaces like migratory birds, and weekend flights are hard to get. Young employees are helpless; between life and the future, they can only focus on the present for now, taking the weekend shuttle to the city to visit supermarkets and eat out.
When flying to these two cities in the eastern region, it takes almost a whole day just for the travel time. If the flight is delayed or canceled, one has to stay overnight in the transit city.
Kangbashi is great – it has convenient transportation. High-speed trains to Xi’an and Hohhot will be built in the next few years, and there are many flight routes available at the airport. The climate has distinct four seasons; it is a great place to escape the heat in summer, and it’s not too cold in winter. The urban environment is good, and education and healthcare have developed rapidly in recent years.
There will soon be high-speed trains from Kangbashi to Xi’an and Beijing
This high-speed train will also reach Yulin; it’s likely part of the Baohai High-Speed Railway, which is currently under construction
Actually, that’s pretty much the case for everyone who works in chemical plants