Tuesday 25 September 2012

108 Giant Chinese Projects That Are Reshaping The World

108 Giant Chinese Projects That Are Reshaping The World
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There is an old Chinese saying that goes: If you want to be rich, you must first build roads.

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 worlds 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