Les Chinois construisent un hôtel de 15 étages en six jours. (Vidéo 2.12)
Explaining why China’s economy has boomed so much over the past 35 years is a complicated endeavor more suited for a book, but one crude way to describe it is this: China has built a lot of things very, very fast.
How fast? Well, consider the example of this 15- story building constructed in six days in Changsha, the capital of central China’s Hunan Province. In 2010, a city resident created this time lapse video showing the incredibly fast construction of the Ark Hotel: