If you looked at the pictures I posted of our new apartment, you saw the empty lot across the street. Remember I mentioned that it looked like they were getting ready to build something. Well, construction is ramping up. I'm not sure what they're going to build but they're certainly getting busy. Here's what it looked like last weekend:
Of course, the first step of any Chinese construction project is to build a wall around the job site. The Chinese love their walls, you know? I hear they have a really big one up north of here. In this case, the wall was already there. They're just making it a foot or so taller and grouting the entire surface.
And here's what it looks like this week:
Not much progress but a lot of activity. The building in the lower left will be housing for the construction workers. It is customary in China for the workers to live at the job site. Most of these guys migrate from the countryside, leaving their families behind and following the jobs to the cities.
The dump trucks started lining up this morning, hauling in some fill material to build the roads inside the job site. One thing that is good here is that as soon as the trucks pull out on the street, a crew of workers with shovels and brooms runs out and cleans up any mud they dropped on the street. It's the Chinese solution to every problem - throw more people at it.
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