[Vendome]

Coooool...

[ezo4]

I had a good time there saw lots of amazing things... would like to go back and explore more

[Irenic]

Wow, those are pretty.

I’m watching The Crumbling of America on the History channel.

Our bridges are in piss-poor shape.

I think maybe we should stop handing out money to other countries and fix our own chit!

[aquila48]

Remember when it was the US who used to awe the world with its architectural wonders?

No more.

China is becoming what we were... and vice-versa.

[kbennkc]

We're screwed .

[PugetSoundSoldier]

I’ve been over many of those bridges, and over the Hangzhou bay bridge (between Shanghai and Ningbo) dozens of times. It’s so long, you can get to the middle (where they’re building a hotel), stop, get out, and you cannot see land in either direction - it’s OVER the horizon in each both directions!

Takes about 30 minutes to cross - it’s freakishly long!

[Adams]

I travel to Southern China about once a year and am blown away by the construction happening there. Construction cranes in every direction and as far as the eye can see. The only thing I've seen that we're doing that compares is the Hoover Dam Bypass project:

[JoeProBono]

[Lancey Howard]

That’s one of the coolest slide shows I ever saw.

[pankot]

Gadzooks! If they can build bridges like that what can they do with weapons?

[grey_whiskers]

All I see are targets for our bombers...

oh, yes, and notice how relatively *empty* they are?

Potemkin Village.

Cheers!

[sphinx]

I'd hate to see a derailment on #11.

Beautiful engineering. Of course, it's all fairly new. Most of our basic infrastructure is 50-100 years old, and looks it.

[Senator_Blutarski]

China enjoys cheap labor, which helps make this kind of construction possible.

Much of America's infrastructure was built between 1900 and 1965 at much lower labor costs and much less intrusive regulations than today.

[Hotmetal]

Can’t see them with this computer, will look at home.

[C19fan]

How is it China can build a 36 km bridge for under $2 billion yet the Eastern span of the Bay Bridge, is what now $10 billion and costs estimated for replacing the Tappan Zee bridge is $6 billion; given how these projects get way underestimated in the US the real cost if it is ever done would be over $10 billion? Thanks for posting. China like those cable-stayed bridges, hee hee. Britain built world class infrastructure in the 19th century, the US was on top in the late 19th-firs half 20th centuries but China is on top now. We and the Brits would rather pour billions down rat holes and in supporting dead beats while China spends on things that will pay off for decades.

[Hebrews 11:6]

China’s structural engineers apparently are state-of-the-art.