tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post4668217721067844533..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: Cement Production: China and Elsewhere Stuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-75716530687148194152012-11-08T07:58:39.829-08:002012-11-08T07:58:39.829-08:00Amazing ...Amazing ...yvesThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00225964326142677776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-62192533649725613002012-11-08T04:47:08.373-08:002012-11-08T04:47:08.373-08:00In many ways the developments in China have simila...In many ways the developments in China have similarities with the housing boom in Sweden during the late sixties and early seventies. During that time the government but up a goal of building one million new housing units in ten years to solve severe lack of housing (today these buildings account for 25% of total). The project actually was fulfilled but to a great cost. The buildings have a lot of technical problems and were planned and design to fast with little though of the users. The result after ten years was a lot of empty houses and a collapse of the building industry. Still today only a fraction of new houses are being built compare to those years. <br /><br />When traveling and working in China I have a feeling that we soon will see a similar abrupt end. A lot of project seems to slow down and it seems that many Chinese cities already have a quite large floor area per person. The statistic is a bit murky but some number show that the space exceeding Korea and Japan. <br /><br />A lot of steel and concrete is of course going to infrastructure projects, and even that national highway and rail systems is quite developed today, most of the rural systems still have a low standard. <br />Bjornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497432111524326106noreply@blogger.com