In scale and pace, the building boom currently sweeping over China has no precedent in human history. China is spending about $375 billion each year on construction, nearly 16% of its gross domestic product. In the process, it is using 54.7% of the world's production of concrete, 36.1% of the world's steel, and 30.4% of the world's coal.Four hundred billion bucks buys a lot of cool architecture. Some of it would look great integrated into the Emerald Spine. Take a look at the CCTV Headquarters Building in Beijing:
And the wild flatscreen for the folks hanging out down in the garden underneath.
Hopefully they'll landscape in plenty of room for people to lie around under there, or there's gonna be a whole lot of neck strain in that neighborhood.
