Typical China Apartment Tour（How Chinese ansreally live） | life in China 🇨🇳

What's a typical Chinese apartment like? What's people's living environment like? In this video, I want to share what a typical Chinese-style apartment is like. Hi, I am a Bo. I live in a small county in China. Today I'll show you around my sister's apartment. This residential complex was built in 2005 and it's now known as an old residential neighborhood. These apartments are everywhere in Chinese cities and they used to be a major part of China's housing supply system. Most sit in city centers or well-developed areas with all kinds of daily amenities nearby. However, there are very few on-site facilities in the neighborhood and parking is especially tight. Honestly, the designers back then never thought every household would own a car, so they didn't plan for underground parking garages at all. Parking stays really tight to this day. Get back late after work and there's no spot left. There's a package locker here. Couriers drop packages inside and recipients pick them up themselves with a code sent via text. There are also a few storage rooms at the back for keeping miscellaneous stuff. Let's go up to the floor to check it out. There's a mailbox here. With an electric meter behind it. Motion lights are installed on the stairs. This one's sensor is clearly broken. It stays on even in the daytime. This is a fire extinguisher and above it are the digital TV and broadband utility boxes. The outside of these buildings was renovated a few years ago. They used to be really messy and run down. The exterior walls are covered with outdoor AC units. There was no designated space for them in the original design either. Old neighborhoods have their upsides too. Most are in established urban areas, so it's easy to go shopping and run errands nearby. Over here are the trash bins and a sanitation worker is collecting waste paper. The water pipes and electrical wires on the walls are also really disorganized. Adding elevators to old residential buildings has been a major quality of life initiative in China in recent years. The added elevators are built on the outside of the building with a steel-framed glass elevator shaft mounted directly onto the exterior wall. No need to demolish walls inside residence homes or alter the building's original internal structure. The elevator doors line up directly with the stair landings. Elderly people and those with mobility issues can ride it straight out. No more struggling to climb stairs. The elevators here require a key card to use, so this leads to one common issue. Elevator installation often meets opposition from residents on the first and second floors. People on the first two floors don't need to climb stairs anyway, so they barely use the elevator. It can even block their natural light, so many people object to adding elevators. Most of the time it's worked out through negotiation. For example, first and second floor residents don't contribute to the costs. All right, let's head to my sister's place now. Right inside the door is a shoe cabinet, then the living room. My sister bought this apartment around 2010. It's 125 square meters total and cost about 350,000 RMB back then. Prices shot up to 1.5 million a few years ago, but now they've dropped to around 850,000. See for yourself, this is exactly a real estate bubble. For rent, it's about 2,000 RMB a month, equivalent to around $300. The place might be a little cluttered. We'll just do a quick walkthrough. Water dispenser, it heats water. Chinese people prefer drinking boiled water and hot tea. This is a Sony TV that's been used for over 10 years. The quality is amazing. An air conditioner that's also over 10 years old. Over here is the balcony. My sister has a lot of antiques here, stored here by her dad. Bathroom with a washing machine inside. Let's look at the master bedroom first. There's also an old desk that used to be my nephew's. This AC unit is really old too. Typical yellow wardrobe. This was exactly the home decor style in early 2000s China. Master bathroom. It uses an electric water heater. This is my nephew's room. He's in eighth grade right now with really good grades. He got third place in his class on the final exam. The game he plays is called Delta Force. Currently the most popular FPS game in China. Over here is the dining room and the cabinet is also filled with antiques. Guest room, relatively smaller. Kitchen, all the fixtures are pretty worn. Over here there's also a dish cabinet and a microwave next to two rice cookers. Sit and watch some TV, dinner will be ready soon. Cured pork trotter stewed with potatoes. Steamed sea bass. Jiangxi stir-fried rice noodles. Look at today's dishes, really simple family meal. This is what a real Chinese apartment looks like. Thanks for watching.