Building a Green China
Despite some greenish glimmers, the world’s biggest construction site remains stuck in shoddy materials, hunger for land development and aging ideas about design. While it contributes 15 percent of the world's GDP, China consumes 30 percent of the earth's steel and half its concrete. On top of which, buildings in China consume a third of the country's increasingly endangered water supplies
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