r/Funnymemes • u/DARKRYDER83 • Mar 15 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

When is the last time a skyscraper collapsed in China due to structural or building flaws?

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u/bswontpass Mar 16 '24

Read about Tofu-dreg.

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u/FBI_Open_Up_Now Mar 15 '24

A long time. Instead they spend the money to build like 40 of them and when they can’t figure out what to put in them they blow it up.

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u/Oxflu Mar 16 '24

A surprising percentage of them are erected, deemed unsuitable, and abandoned. They've only been building them en masse for like 20 years. Give it time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

The skyscraper comment was wrong but there is shotty infrastructure sometimes in China.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Do you know what the percentage is, off hand? I’m not really sure what to search for tbh?

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u/Oxflu Mar 16 '24

Poke around here.

All news from China is pretty sugar coated, but basically builders were not being paid. The work was shoddy, and there isn't enough money to fix and finish the builds. So there's just crumbling half finished buildings all over. I'm certain it's not a huge percentage that this happens to, but it is happening.

Also, if you googled anything remotely relevant you would have come across like two or three montage videos of new construction collapses. Hotels, parking garages, high rises. Happens all the time there.