Posted on 09/17/2021 9:20:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a jaw-dropping moment caught on camera, 15 high-rise buildings were obliterated simultaneously in China after sitting unfinished for eight years. In the country’s Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, the skyscrapers were destroyed into huge pile of dust. Now, video of the demolition is going viral, leaving netizens stunned while starting a serious conversation about country’s excessive and unplanned urbanisation projects.
China’s state-run Xinhua News stated that 4.6 tons of explosives were placed at 85,000 blasting points in the buildings for the demolition. The report said the mission was successfully completed in just 45 seconds.
In order to ensure that the blasting work is full-proof — emergency rescue departments dispatched more than 2,000 support personnel to set up eight emergency rescue teams, including on-site fire rescue teams, comprehensive emergency teams, flood control emergency teams, and urban management logistics teams, Kunming Daily reported.
According to Yahoo News, a detailed plan was put out to execute the coordinated explosions. While preparing for the demolition, shops nearby the premises were closed and residents in the neighbouring buildings were evacuated.
Authorities decided to take such drastic step as the buildings had been abandoned for a very long time and the basements were submerged in rainwater.
Taiwan News added that these buildings were part of the unfinished Liyang Star City Phase II project and was about 1 billion Chinese yuan (US$154 million) worth of property. Initiated in 2011, the housing project met with many hurdles over the year and saw frequent interruptions even after ownership changed. After the government intervention, the project did not resume until late last year but couldn’t be completed.
However, this is not the first time simultaneous demolitions at such a large scale was seen in China. Earlier in 2017, 36 buildings were flattened in a mere 20 seconds in Zhengzhou, with a plan to renovate the area into a more appealing hub.
Here’s how netizens reacted to the demolition:
It’s wacky enough that China’s central planning has to get rid of millions of unneeded housing units, but what really astonishes me is: look how these buildings are toppling over sideways. That’s NOT supposed to happen in a controlled demolition. These buildings were death traps. https://t.co/ZPcH2kqEGx
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) September 15, 2021
I see others have already pointed out this was bc of the conditions of the bldgs but having worked in real estate investment in China there are uh lots of very free market reasons why projs don’t get finished & don’t sold for yrs, assets are distressed for many reasons https://t.co/yRSiYctN7G
— Rui Ma 马睿 (@ruima) September 14, 2021
Demolished? Why not let poor people live in them at a reduced rent? When the economy changes someone will build in the same footprint. This is another failing of the government and an ecological disaster. https://t.co/lgJO5KWrvu
— Bill Dettenborn (@BDettenborn) September 15, 2021
I feel like this is going to happen here with all these neighborhoods they’re plowing over what’s left of mother earth for. Quickly built houses that are probably badly made with no privacy and no real yard because they’re right next to each other. https://t.co/inrXsfGJPR
— 👻🔮🌴🌊 𝔢𝔤𝔩𝔢𝔲𝔟𝔥𝔫𝔶𝔨𝔱𝔦𝔴𝔢𝔡 ☀️🌑📚🛸 (@esgnosisennykti) September 16, 2021
I’ve never seen anything like this 🤯 https://t.co/q6et6aEt40
— Earthling (@ziyatong) September 14, 2021
Your reminder that #China ridiculous growth over the last decade has been primarily fueled by gov’t back “building”. Evidence continue to shows demand has evaporated with too many residential property up to quickly resulting in demolition https://t.co/RYBgcTfxFh
— @sin_tos (@sin_tos) September 14, 2021
Imagine the carbon emissions from building and demolishing unwanted buildings. Horrific. https://t.co/FsZd1dYN3X
— Rab Bennetts (@BennettsRab) September 14, 2021
Is it just me or do several of the buildings still standing look like they are tilted?
I see what you mean: ‘China’s Lehman Brothers moment’: Evergrande crisis ...
[Search domain theguardian.com] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/chinas-lehman-brothers-moment-evergrande-crisis-rattles-economy
The crisis engulfing Evergrande, China’s second-biggest property company, is the greatest test yet of President Xi Jinping’s effort to reform the debt-ridden behemoths of the Chinese economy ...
China Evergrande Group, an indebted property giant, warned that it risked default amid plunging sales, as investors protested near the company’s headquarters.
Evergrande owns more than 1,300 real estate projects in over 280 cities in China, according to the company’s website. In recent days, protests by angry home buyers and investors have broken out in ...
Evergrande’s collapse would be the biggest test that China’s financial system has faced in years,” Mark Williams, Capital Economics’ chief Asia economist, wrote in a note last week.
China Evergrande, the troubled property giant that has become a symbol of debt and excess in the world’s second-largest economy, said on Tuesday that it faced “tremendous” financial pressure ...
A “waste”, most of those things are just hollow shells in the first place.
You can drive by them and literally look right through them, and they are everywhere.
So much of China is just a facade.
Hahahaha! I just re-watched that movie about a month ago...:)
Great reference there!
Hahahahahaha! I do the same thing with Crazy Russian Driver videos...:)
I read articles a few years back about real estate in China and after the article I saw a documentary on buildings in China. The actual struct was ok with good engineering. The rest of the buildings not so much. Decorative details like lentels , cornices etc are improperly attached and falling off. The finish work is terrible, doors don’t close, plumbing leaks etc. these buildings are sold site in seen to investors and they are worthless.
Maybe General Milley can call China up and assure them they're 'still the best'...
In other such projects, the apartments were actually sold and the owners are in fact living there with no windows, electricity or water. They are in effect camping in their own homes.
In other situations, having no trust in banks or stocks, people invest money in hard assets, real estate. They buy houses. They may own two or three apartments that are vacant. Thus there are many many vacant buildings owned by people having no intention of ever living there. It is reported there are tens of thousands such apartments
Blow 'em up, lock 'em up in their apartment and come back three days later to take 'em to the incinerator.
Same difference. It's how the CCP rolls.
Ok...now I’m having Chinese for dinner.
I love the nearby Chinese restaurant...”Be here ten minute.”
——Skyscrapers built with bad materials——
In China, they call the phenomena Tofu Dreg. It is well known and there are lots and lots of videos showing tofu construction.
I have watched the video in question and the destruction of the 15 buildings was not related to tofu construction. I did not learn why the project was destroyed.
Tofu Dreg is a national joke
“China is asshoe.”
What hideous, cookie-cutter development in that photo. It’s a scenario where you could enter the wrong building to try to get home after a tiring day—they all look the same. Ugly skyline—apparently, the government has a uniform building height and window-size requirement. That’s socialism for you.
There’s nothing that says a controlled demolition has to come straight down. The important part is for it to not land on something you don’t want to damage. If you’ve got a big field of nothing sideways is easier and faster. There’s plenty of controlled demolitions that go timber instead of straight down.
The flat faces probably needed the steel from the buildings to build another aircraft carrier.
Yep they hoped to draw people in from the country side fail ensued.
Buildings had been abandoned for a very long time and the basements were submerged in rainwater.
Paid for with American trade deficit dollars.
omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om6b0_ffyFQ
It’s a shame that a deal could not have been made to send these high rise tenement buildings to California...
They would have perfect for placing in, and around, all CA’s single-family-home neighborhoods in support of the latest CA zoning law just signed by Gavin “In A Landslide” Newsom...
Distributed all across CA, these 10-story apartment buildings each could hold up to 5,000 tenants...
Thereby placing 50,000 illegal migrant vermin (IMVs) into those white neighborhoods all across CA...
That’s a good start towards a solution for finding homes for CA’s 15,000,000 IMVs...
Vodka and dash cams! What could go wrong?
Have you run across this phenomenon:
Not sure what’s going on apparently it started out as drifting and then they added full throttle lockdown to it. Crazy stuff!
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