I don't know about the whole 21 million thing - it sounds right to me - but I go to China for work once a year and I do a lot of rural travel between factories and not everyone has cell phones and you don't need them to get on a bus. Lots of people have very old flip phones and nokia candybar phones which do not have facial recognition.
Well, I read all kinds of news sources. And I can be wrong. I try to read a variety before I come to a conclusion.
Some of my reading includes Beijing news sources such as Beijing Times, Global Times (English language Chinese news), The China Times, South China Post, Epoch Times, NTD (New Tang Dynasty), and of course the local ones.
I can agree that China is large and many rural areas are different, but my understanding is there is deep surveillance and cameras everywhere in all the large cities, which Wuhan is certainly a large, modern and beautifully designed high tech city, so it made sense to me.
I don't know about the whole 21 million thing - it sounds right to me - but I go to China for work once a year and I do a lot of rural travel between factories and not everyone has cell phones and you don't need them to get on a bus. Lots of people have very old flip phones and nokia candybar phones which do not have facial recognition.
Hmmm. That is interesting. Not at all what I had read.
Well, I read all kinds of news sources. And I can be wrong. I try to read a variety before I come to a conclusion.
Some of my reading includes Beijing news sources such as Beijing Times, Global Times (English language Chinese news), The China Times, South China Post, Epoch Times, NTD (New Tang Dynasty), and of course the local ones.
I can agree that China is large and many rural areas are different, but my understanding is there is deep surveillance and cameras everywhere in all the large cities, which Wuhan is certainly a large, modern and beautifully designed high tech city, so it made sense to me.