Three years after quake, new towns arise in SW China

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Terrific pics, especially from post #9!

Cant think of any other country that is so impressive in terms of scale in infrastructure development!

The new towns are not on the same site of the earth quake destroyed old ones, so the time to remove the rubbles saved. This rebuilding task is a political task, not a commercial development. The central government give the job to some provincial governments, and the provincial government give to job to the cities under their governing, the designated officials must finish the work good and on time, other wise their political future will be bleak . If the official do the job very good, they add the credits to the higher officials, to the central government, so these officials will be trusted with greater responsibilities, this is the work of dictatorship. All the residential buildings are not for sale, only to resettle the displaced folks, and nobody can play, because this project belong to the dear party( some propaganda you know, under publicity, under the media, too risky for corruption). This kind of works will not happen in the democratic India, will any city in India send a group people with their won money to build a small city in a mountainous remote place you never have nothing to do with it for nothing?
 

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The question to ask is, who is going to stay there? Will the original surviving residents return? For free? If not, will there be a Han influx from the north-east?
well, who is living there is of course the surviving residents returned....most of them can buy the new house with "soft loans" provided by the government.
 

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If something like this is to happen in India then it will take 5 years of planning...5 years of land acquisition...5 years for execution and 10 years of completion...earth might be under water by then...
Really great to see how china works..
You're forgetting scams, votebank, terrorism, local people's protests. and 2 dozen things. In China, all this is silenced with a bullet between the eyes. Something that would suit to change India as well. Impressive photos. The funny thing is, Western democracies have the same speed of execution. So it seems we need something like Chinese system in India to expedite it. Not Communist, but authoritarian like that.
 

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Would not like to sound like a spoil sport for the great achievement but ...

How much of this is done by forced labour with worker rights violations i think we would not be able to know.

Again not a spoil sport or insult just an interest.
 

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