China’s Building BOOM

Each city we visited in China had much evidence of the governments efforts to convert China to a land of cities from a land of farms.  On a return trip from the Great Wall, some of us on the tour bus started counting the cranes but stopped as we could not count fast enough and we totaled over 100.  I asked each of our guides for details about this building boom but did not get consistent answers.  Fortunately many of my questions seemed to be answered in a feature article in the International New York Times from November 11, 2013 “In New China, Hope Fades and Homes Crumble.”
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