The Newest Counterfeit Craze - Buildings – China Rants

www.fcproductions.net — As you may or may not have heard, an apartment building (luckily still unoccupied and under construction) in the compound “Lotus Riverside” in Shanghai’s Minhang district fell over in one big piece on Saturday. How does this happen? Aren’t there inspectors to prevent this kind of thing? Well, it just so happens that I used to date an interpreter, and one of her jobs was actually negotiating between foreign real estate buyers and a State-owned property development firm. She had some interesting things to say about the issue.

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