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China: inside the world's concrete superpower

1st March 2019

Just marvel at the majesty of Beijing's new airport, and the statistic that China pours "more concrete every two years than the US did in the entire 20th century".

That is staggering. You might think about a number of things - the implications of this for growth, and whether or not building on such a scale is necessarily a good thing.

Since 2003, China has poured more cement every two years than the US managed in the entire 20th century https://t.co/56Pa9JThvm #GuardianConcreteWeek
— Guardian Cities (@guardiancities) February 28, 2019

Beijing’s huge new airport is a third of the size of Edinburgh, and aims to process 72 million passengers a year https://t.co/56Pa9JThvm #GuardianConcreteWeek
— Guardian Cities (@guardiancities) February 28, 2019

Graham Watson

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