Yeh I was gunna say something similar. Yes China has some street level noise but the traffic noise is significantly reduced. I stayed in a hotel on xinzha rd in shanghai amd despite it being next to a raised highway (南北高架路on a Saturday morning all I could hear was the bird call from the park across the street

I had no idea that cities could ban car horns, that’s amazing. Some busy cities are completely intolerable due to overuse of honking.