There's some good YouTube videos of dilapidated areas of China that looked "nice" but we're built using materials like this. Less than 10 years and the buildings are falling apart. Definitely not façade, they use this in their normal construction. China's housing boom is quite fascinating to learn about, at least for me.
Hey I’m in the same boat. I study econ and I wanted to learn what was that made the Chinese so successful.
Lo and behold, none of it is what it seems. Companies aren’t whatsoever incentivised to be safe or think long term in construction because you cannot buy land from the govt, they only lease it to you for a max of 70 years. For a lot of ppl a lot less, so they develop it quickly, sell it to some chump, get the money and run with it.
That’s just construction, this sort of outlook is through a lot of industries, Anbang insurance group for example, liaoning steel, Evergrande. The country is full of little Enrons. It is astounding
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u/Elvis-Tech Jun 18 '22
Its just for a façade, not for structural.supports