Stories involving production/construction within the communist system always reminds me of the Soviet Union tractor factory insanity.
Everyone in the area of the tractor factory had a “job.” They came to work every day, and dutifully worked to produce tractors. Right outside the tractor factory were rows and rows and rows of brand new tractors that would eventually rust. There is no “market” in the Marxist/Leninist world.
The Tower of Babel quickly comes to my mind.
My second thought is such a conspicuously large building in a country with millions of starving people just may stir somebody to a point of rage, where they want to bring that ‘useless’ building down to the ground, to stop the wasted government monies. It’s one of the biggest Man Made targets the world has ever seen.
And it will topple over two years after it’s completed.
I wouldn’t go up that tower if you paid me.
2nd Tallest Building in the World: Merdeka 118 Opens in Kuala Lumpur
< gunny hartman>”I didn’t know they stacked tofu dreg that high!”</ gunny hartman>
Quality steel was used, right?
Naturally, that building is of the highest quality.
I met a guy that was a crane operator. He quit one job after he was made to sit in an inoperable crane while they waited on a part from Germany. He said he was going crazy after the second day of just sitting in the crane (union rules).
I wonder how those Chinese guys are doing after 10 years up there?
One thing about it, looking at that skyline nobody’s going to be asking “Which one is it?”
Isn’t the tallest building in North America the CN Tower in Toronto? It’s over 550 meters tall, I think.
It’s the chicom version of the WPA.
Maybe they published that today because it's the 117th day of the year.
Goldin Finance 117 is designed to resemble a walking stick, and has that as its nickname.[10] Earlier designs resembled the shape of a fin and a diamond. Goldin Finance 117 is planned to be the main tower of Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan, a Central Business District funded by Goldin Properties, and would be built nearby the Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club.[11]No mention of it there or on the Chinese page, but 117 is the number of scales on a Chinese dragon:
The number nine is special in China as it is seen as the number of heaven, and Chinese dragons are frequently connected with it. For example, a Chinese dragon is normally described in terms of nine attributes and usually has 117 (9×13) scales—81 (9×9) Yang and 36 (9×4) Yin.
CHINESE STEEL has failed 2 tests in TAIWAN....
Made with Chinese concrete and Chinese rebar. What could possibly go wrong?
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