Take a look at China Page.com and see the photos of modern cities in China. Since 1980, China has rebuilt most of its established cities and added hundreds more.
In 2004, the BBC News said, “The biggest mass migration in the history of the world is under way in China, and it is creating what some are calling the second industrial revolution.… A massive building boom umparallelled anywhere is taking place – last year, half the concrete used in construction around the world was poured into China’s cities.”
Concrete isn’t the only product China needs. Iron and steel are also needed.
China is buying iron ore from around the world. In 2009, India exported 106 million tons. A July 2010 Reuters piece says, “Chinese steel producers are increasingly turning to Australia’s magnetite iron ore sector, pouring in funds to explore and develop mines once considered uneconomic…”
In 2006, China was the number one producer with 820 million metric tons of iron ore and still imported 52% from other countries like Australia (470 metric tons), India (150) and Brazil (250). Source: Wikipedia
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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