Beijing’s Giant Airport Terminal To Open - BusinessWeek.com
…the $3.75 billion terminal occupies nearly 14 million square feet and will accommodate some 50 million passengers annually by 2020. And it was completed in less than four years—an astonishing feat considering the decades spent on frustrated expansion projects of much narrower scope at airports such as London’s Heathrow.
I moved to Beijing in 1995 and lived there until 2001. I went back to visit in 2005 and it was already very different than the place that I grew up in. Hearing others that have gone back more recently, it sounds like the city is almost unrecognizable after all the Olympic construction projects. Here’s a picture of the new CCTV (Chinese television) that looks like it’s about to fall over!
My business partner and good friend Jason Barber has blogged about a couple of crazy building projects that the Chinese have begun. You should check them out!
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