Venture out of Hong Kong and Shanghai and you will easily find busted up stuff. Even relatively deep in the countryside you will have new roads, so the infrast

Venture out of Hong Kong and Shanghai and you will easily find busted up stuff. Even relatively deep in the countryside you will have new roads, so the infrastructure is spread out nicely. But in so many places you will find abandoned buildings, 80% empty new construction trying to capitalise on a huge real estate bubble, and some major overprovisioning (things are growing fast, but not that fast). So many places just feel empty. A lot of it reminds me of the nightmarish city designs of le corbusier, where design decisions were taken to look the most impressive on a postcard, or to look huge from a postcard. But then you're walking inside the place and it feels totally out of place. It's great that infrastructure is being built, and this sort of mass movement could help tackle a lot of problems. But like Moses' highways in the past, these are being built more as political monuments rather than as smart urbanism. No politician wants to be in charge of building 3 normal-speed train line when they could be in charge of building a high-speed train line, even if the former would be more useful.