Biggest building: China opens world's largest single structure
The fourth largest city in China, Chengdu, now has the world's largest standing building. It could hold three Pentagons or 20 Sydney Opera Houses. Seth Doane reports.
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There is already an oversupply of Malls in the world especially in China where ghost cities with empty buildings are numerous. Facing against the headwind of e-commerce where no shopping spaces are required, how will these buildings be filled if there are ample empty malls with no tenants and apartments without residents all across China? In addition to the old time state owned ghost factories, these ghost buildings are the major contributors to the non-performing bank loans in China and divide the economy into a highly inefficient state-owned portion (50%) and a free market (50%). With limited efforts to unwind the precarious financial condition by the Chinese central banks, the frozen assets from the state-owned business will further degrade the overall economic performance.
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(O_O) AMAZING
I'll be afraid to go into the waterpark/beach
eh, I thought it'd be bigger.
Do these Chinese escalators swallow civilians too?
I admire the Chinese work ethic used to build this structure. Just Amazing.
Wow! 46 million modern day slaves help build it.
alright im planning to migrate to china and live. honey get ready!
In the intro, I don't think Hong Kong would appreciate being lumped in with China..
The country is so over populated with the citizens living like ants in an ant farm. Because there's no room, they all live in 1 bedroom studio apartments with bathrooms so small that the toilet bowl has to be placed inside the shower stall. They don't care, they like this way of living, so they just keep having more and more babies and they won't stop until the whole world is like this.
its really amazing one i have been here once
This is stupid building big isn't a success that is just destroying the world
Its size cannot be compared to India's man-made monument : the largest shit hole in the world.
I wonder when it will be come another ghost mall? Very impressive building.
China is really going overboard with building cities that are practically empty, too expensive to live in... still, nice mall indeed!
....NOT GOING TO VISIT WITHOUT A PROPER FUCKING MAP OF THE BUILDING, or I will get horrendously lost in it!
Admittedly, a gastronormous waste of all kinds of resources... gold, marble, steel, concrete... the list is quite long. Probably three miles long.
china is one of the best countries, extremely intelligent people and I wish the best for them, hopefully soon to be the superpower
i dont find this wow. a wow would be a huge building based on traditional chinese arquitecture with modern amenities. huge malls have been done already, china just made it bigger. nothing wow!