[BITList] China opens record breaking 4,000 ft long bridge
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franka at iinet.net.au
Wed Feb 26 23:57:25 GMT 2014
I find this a bit scary.
*China opens record breaking 4,000 ft long bridge*
This was aimed at Americans, but---- and we thought this was only
happening in Australia !!!
I SUGGEST YOU READ ALL OF THE TEXT, NOT JUST LOOK AT THE PICTURES.
INTERESTING COMMENTS ON COAL AND VEHICLES.
Hastheir design, engineering and architecture advanced past
the US? - imagine the mindset of those who worked on this at
these heights
Note that the person below is 1102 feet above the ground and
is sweeping the dirt off this twenty first century
Engineering marvel with a broom that was designed centuries
ago and has no safety line.
Blasting and coating this steel superstructure in a couple
of decades will be an interesting project.
Aizhai Bridge in Hunan province is 336 m (1,102 ft.) high
and has a 1,176 m (3,858 ft.) span.
It connects two traffic tunnels in the mountains, cutting
the time needed to traverse the canyon
From 30 minutes to 1 minute. Construction took five years.
Work finished at the end of last year, making it the
world's longest and highest suspension bridge.
A brave worker put the final touches on the Anzhaite
Bridge.The bridge, which connects to two tunnels,
Was built to ease trafficDrivers can take in the views of
the Dehang CanyonPeople and traffic during the
Opening ceremony.Vehicles motor along a two-way, four-lane
motorway.
Pedestrians walk along it on a special walkway under the road.
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*Chinese Supremacy*
*
*
*This article, though aimed at a US audience, gives a scary
insight into China's growing economic power.*
*A Little Known Reality.*
*June 8, 2013. Source: Michael Snyder, Guest Post*
*In future China will employ millions of American workers
and dominate thousands of small communities all *
*Over the United States. Chinese acquisition of U.S.
Businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is *
*On pace to shatter that record this year.
The Smithfield Foods acquisition is an example. Smithfield
Foods is the largest pork producer and processor*
*In the world. It has facilities in 26 U.S. States and it
employs tens of thousands of Americans. It directly owns *
*460 farms and has contracts with approximately 2,100
others. But now a Chinese company has bought it for *
*$ 4.7 billion, and that means that the Chinese will now be
the most important employer in dozens of rural *
*Communities all over America. *
*
Thanks in part to our massively bloated trade deficit with
China, the Chinese have trillions of dollars to spend. *
*They are only just starting to exercise their economic muscle.
It is important to keep in mind that there is often not much
of a difference between "the Chinese government"*
*And "Chinese corporations". In 2011, 43 percent of all
profits in China were produced by companies where the *
*Chinese government had a controlling interest in. *
*
Last year a Chinese company spent $2.6 billion to purchase
AMC entertainment -- one of the largest movie theater *
*Chains in the United States. Now that Chinese company
controls more movie ticket sales than anyone else in the
world. *
*
But China is not just relying on acquisitions to expand its
economic power. "Economic beachheads" are being *
*Established all over America. For example, Golden Dragon
Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc. Recently broke ground *
*On a $100 million plant in Thomasville, Alabama. Many of
the residents of Thomasville, Alabama will be glad to have *
*Jobs, but it will also become yet another community that
will now be heavily dependent on communist China.
And guess where else Chinese companies are putting down
roots? Detroit. Chinese-owned companies are investing in *
*American businesses and new vehicle technology, selling
everything from seat belts to shock absorbers in retail
stores, *
*And hiring experienced engineers and designers in an effort
to soak up the talent and expertise of domestic automakers *
*And their suppliers. If you recently purchased an
"American-made" vehicle, there is a really good chance that
it has a *
*Number of Chinese parts in it. Industry analysts are
hard-pressed to put a number on the Chinese suppliers
operating in *
*The United States.*
*China**seems particularly interested in acquiring energy
resources in the United States. For example, China is
actually *
*Mining for coal in the mountains of Tennessee. Guizhou
Gouchuang Energy Holdings Group spent 616 million dollars *
*To acquire Triple H Coal Co. In Jacksboro, Tennessee. At
the time, that acquisition really didn't make much news, but
now *
*A group of conservatives in Tennessee is trying to stop the
Chinese from blowing up their mountains and taking their coal. *
*
And pretty soon China may want to build entire cities in the
United States just like they have been doing in other
countries. *
*Right now China is actually building a city larger than
Manhattan just outside Minsk, the capital of Belarus.*
*Are you starting to get the picture? China is on the rise.
If you doubt this, just read the following:*
*# When you total up all imports and exports, China is now
the number one trading nation on the entire planet.*
*# Overall, the U.S. has run a trade deficit with China over
the past decade that comes to more than 2.3 trillion dollars.*
*# China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else
on the planet.*
*# China now has the largest new car market in the entire
world.*
*# China now produces more than twice as many automobiles as
the United States does. After being bailed out by *
*U.S. taxpayers, GM is involved in 11 joint ventures with
Chinese companies.*
*# China is the number one gold producer in the world.*
*# The uniforms for the U.S. Olympic team were made in China.*
*# 85% of all artificial Christmas trees the world over are
made in China.*
*# The new World Trade Center tower in New York is going to
include glass imported from China.*
*# China now consumes more energy than the United States does.*
*# China is now in aggregate the leading manufacturer of
goods in the entire world.*
*# China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined.*
*# China is now the number one producer of wind and solar
power on the entire globe.*
*# China produces 3 times as much coal and 11 times as much
steel as the United States does.*
*# China produces more than 90 percent of the global supply
of rare earth elements.*
*# China is now the number one supplier of components that
are critical to the operation of any national defense system.*
*# In published scientific research articles China is
expected to become number one in the world very shortly.*
*
And what we have seen so far may just be the tip of the
iceberg. For now, I will just leave you with one piece of
advice - *
*learn to speak Chinese. You are going to need it !*
*
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