Hefei, capital of Anhui Province, is getting massive aid to bring it into modernity. Hundreds of thousands of poor workers wend their ways through the old streets while mile after mile of high rise apartments get constructed. Imagine an area the size of Cleveland being built to house 10 million people, all at once, from farmland. No one seems to worry too much about their carbon footprint, they’d just like to get past making footprints in mud.

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