James Huang - london / spreadsheets / bibles / guitars / chow mein » concrete http://www.jameshuang.co.uk This blog reconciles being a Liverpool-born Chinese Christian with life in London as a trainee auditor Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:31:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Where did all the concrete go? http://www.jameshuang.co.uk/2008/04/where-did-all-the-concrete-go/ http://www.jameshuang.co.uk/2008/04/where-did-all-the-concrete-go/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:26:36 +0000 James http://www.jameshuang.co.uk/2008/04/where-did-all-the-concrete-go/ Flyover 1 It went into building China. More specifically, it is being used to build a huge flyover near my home (American English: overpass; Chinese: 立交桥). The amazing thing is that what you see in the pictures did not exist 3 weeks ago. It grows by 10 metres when I pass it week-by-week.

Flyover 2 China’s vicarious appetite for natural resources is well documented. Tianjin is transforming itself to be alike any other modern city. But in the meantime, it means a lot of old buildings are being torn down and the city is covered in a huge dust cloud from all the construction.

I predict that when the London Olympics come around I will look back at this time and wonder why Britain was not able to match the speed of China’s construction. I hope I am wrong.

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