108 Giant Chinese Infrastructure Projects That Are Reshaping The World
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And, boy, have they built some roads: In the past year, we've seen the world's longest sea bridge, the world's longest gas pipeline and a high-speed railway that's left everyone else in the dust — literally.
The resultant infrastructure push is incredible. A list of 108 super projects is floating around Chinese message boards and we picked out the 45 coolest ones to showcase here.
From highways spanning the continent, to the largest wind power base in the world, to a modern Silk Road that links Europe and India, to new cities in the desert, China is showing what it really means to do big things.
$102 MILLION: The Pingtang telescope will be the world’s largest radio telescope when completed in 2016
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$176 MILLION: Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory conducts China's major scientific projects and is the country's most expensive research facility
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$200 MILLION: The Guangzhou Opera House is one of the three biggest theaters in China, designed by architect Zaha Hadid
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$368 MILLION: The Hainan power grid project is China’s first underwater cross sea power grid and will link the southern island of Hainan to mainland China
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$473 MILLION: The Qinling Tunnel is longest highway tunnel in China
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$717 MILLION: The Kashgar-Hotan Railway connects all the cities and towns of the southwestern Tarim Basin
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$760 MILLION: China Central TV Headquarters is a loop of six horizontal and vertical sections covering 1,551,837 ft.
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$900 MILLION: The Tianhuangping hydroelectric project is the biggest in Asia and plays a vital role in providing power supply in eastern China
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$1.1 BILLION: The Shanghai World Financial Center Project is home to the second highest hotel in the world - the Park Hyatt Shanghai is on the 79th floor
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$1.3 BILLION: The Baltic Pearl Project is China's largest foreign development project and consists of residential and commercial properties outside St. Petersburg, Russia
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$1.7 BILLION: The Wuhan Tianxingzhou Yangtze River Bridge is a combined road and rail bridge across the Yangtze River in the city of Wuhan
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$1.7 BILLION: The Nanjing Metro Line was completed in 2005 and is used by almost 180 million people a year
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$1.8 BILLION: The Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge is the fifth longest cable-stayed bridge in the world
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$1.9 BILLION: The Chengdu Shuangliu Airport will annually handle 35 million passengers
MY OPINION
IF THESE EXPENSIVE PROJECTS ARE ECO FRIENDLY..GOOD TO MOTHER EARTH THEN THEY ARE OK BUT IF NOT THEN THEY ARE IN FOR DEMOLATION WORK
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Agreed........like the White House.