Why is China able to built amazing infrastructure so fast?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:China strikes me as a Potemkin Village on a grand scale. They want to build big things, but it seems like it's mostly for show or bragging rights. Looks impressive on its surface, but underneath it's chicken wire and duct tape holding it together.

No,
They are building it all.
Airports, hospitals, bridges you name it.

Hey if we're talking about buildings in China, does that mean can we talk about buildings in China? I know that's kind of OP's rage thing but the hollow bricks and columns man, wow

USA:

U.S. Invests Less in Transportation Than Other Developed Countries, China

Annual inland infrastructure investment as a percentage of GDP, selected countries
A bar chart showing that China invests far more than the median developed country, and the United States invests less.
China
4.8%
Australia
1.5%
Norway
1.5%
Japan
1.1%
Sweden
1.0%
United Kingdom
0.9%
France
0.9%
Italy
0.9%
Germany
0.8%
Canada
0.6%
United States
0.5%


https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-infrastructure

[Anonymous]

Bcs there are no safety standards.
Also don't knock our workers, in Ottawa one tiny intersection has been closed for a year to pave it. I kid you not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked as a civil engineer for 20 years and did numerous highway and infrastructure projects. Most of the the delays weren't due to regulations or environmental oversight. I did tons of environmental impact studies and if anything it took months, or a year tops, not the years of delay. It was due to lack of political will, lack of willingness to fund the project, or outright political shenanigans, holding funds hostage in tit-for-tat games, or crying poverty while the infrastructure fails.

Over the holidays I went to visit family only to end up a congested traffic area that we did a study on and thought back to all the way back in 2002 when I did the whole study on widening and improving that stretch of highway. I think it's only just in the last year or two that they've actually started working on getting the funding. It's all political games, more than anything.

Precisely. It's not that the US can't do it. It's because Americans have allll of their priorities backwards. There's never enough money because the USA flushes away $3+ T on Iraq, Afghanistan, and the F35 in order to spread American democracy. It's literally the way Americans do things that prevent them from improving the country. Sorry, China isn't improving because of totalitarianism. Japan and South Korea are democracies capable of some of the greatest feats of engineering in human history (e.g. the water drainage system under Tokyo as was shown). That once again disproves it is about totalitarianism and slave labor and everything to do with the backwards mindset of Americans who are increasingly uneducated and myopic to the point the country is becoming a backwater 2nd world country.

[Anonymous]

Why can't you take any criticism, OP? Why are you so fragile?

You didn't start by posting about the Beipanjiang Bridge and just saying it's amazing. It is! But that's not what you did.

You ASKED how China could build bridges so quickly.
You MADE the comparison between China and US and asked for comparison.

Somehow when you get what you asked for, you go into a butthurt rage about people making comparisons. But this is what you asked them to do.

Are you okay?

[Anonymous]

Congress won’t approve the spending. It really is that simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why can't you take any criticism, OP? Why are you so fragile?

You didn't start by posting about the Beipanjiang Bridge and just saying it's amazing. It is! But that's not what you did.

You ASKED how China could build bridges so quickly.
You MADE the comparison between China and US and asked for comparison.

Somehow when you get what you asked for, you go into a butthurt rage about people making comparisons. But this is what you asked them to do.

Are you okay?

Good question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bcs there are no safety standards.
Also don't knock our workers, in Ottawa one tiny intersection has been closed for a year to pave it. I kid you not.

China in fact has ZERO safety standards.