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China: inside the world's concrete superpower

Graham Watson

1st March 2019

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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.

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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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