Chinese Whispers: life in a mega-city
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China's Development Strategy Is a Good Idea
i was always impressed by the fact that, whereas i remember john prescott way back wen when he said, we wregoing to build four and a half million new houses in 20 years. But of course, they've never worked out where they should be. It's uppercentage allocation o you tell a city you will have, you 500 thousand houses. The demographic shift has never taken into consideration. Theyare also v been now built by developers who are going through the biggest crisis in china's history,. with a complete slumpo 85 % slumpin so people are now refusing to pay their mortgages. So what you find is the quality of build is as rubbish as ever it was
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