China may have been building on sand. Evidence of shoddy work even in the richest coastal regions homes have to be rebuilt on average every six or seven years and overbuilding is abundant in China s ghost towns, ghost amusement parks and ghost malls, but even flagship academies now appear to have been built with little regard for real world economics. The Financial Times (sub required) takes an in-depth look at China s construction and fixed investment driven economy and del that the 42 km eight-lane bridge near the city of Qingdao could be China s equivalent of the infamous Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere that played such a big part in the 2008 US presidential election: But the rush to catch up has been unseemly. Although its capital stock should be expected to converge with that of more developed economies, this should happen over many decades, not overnight, Nick Mr Lardy of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington says. Nearly two-thirds of capital stock has been created since 2003. Simply put, China has built too much, too quickly. Back in Qingdao, officials privately admit the world s longest bridge was a mistake.

The idea of a local Communist party chief, since sacked for corruption, it serves a suburban district that is also connected to the city centre by an undersea tunnel, several ferry routes and a highway that runs along the water s edge. Though it was designed to carry 30,000 vehicles a day, an executive in a government-backed construction company says it is registering just 10,000. Qingdao was one of China s first so-called Development Zones designated by the communist party in the mid-1980s when it decided to open the country s economy to the outside world. The $2.3 billion Jiaozhou Bay Bridge took only four years to complete and broke several world records and won numerous prizes in China. At the time of the opening of the bridge in July last year China Daily spoke to some residents of Qingdao about the project. We network Star provide Professional technology, excellent product quality and intimate after-sales service when you purchase ball mill and other products from our company. As a professional mining machinery exporter, we will win your trust with our delivery speed, enterprises credit and product quality.