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Infrastructure includes the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, [1] or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. This entry aggregates articles on and lists of modern infrastructure failures by category (type of infrastructure).
In 2005, the Chinese property bubble was growing. Average land values in China tripled by 2009, and continued to 2011, when values temporarily stopped growing. Due to fiscal reforms from previous decades, local governments had become increasingly reliant on infrastructure development to earn revenue, through local government financing vehicles.
Sanxi, Jingde County, Anhui, China 1543-c. 1700 bridge as a tourist attraction 0 dead or injured 2020 Zhenhai Bridge: Huangshan City, Anhui, China 1536-1699 bridge as a tourist attraction 0 dead or injured 2020 Collapse of Juxian Restaurant [52] Linfen City, Shanxi, China Building 29 dead, 28 injured 2020 Nest on Wonderland London, Ontario, Canada
Still, the Chinese infrastructure plan has faced controversy, with some partner nations bemoaning the high cost of projects and struggling to repay loans. Italy withdrew from the initiative in ...
In China, the term tofu dregs (the pieces left over after making tofu) is widely used as a metaphor for shoddy work, hence the implication that a "tofu-dreg project" is a poorly executed project. [8] According to Chinese architect Li Hu, tofu-dreg projects in China are vastly outnumbered by buildings without construction flaws. Li said that in ...
When a Chinese rocket malfunctioned shortly after launch in April 2020, destroying Indonesia's $220 million Nusantara-2 satellite, it was a blow to the archipelago's efforts to strengthen its ...
The Chinese hackers behind a campaign to infiltrate transportation hubs and other critical American infrastructure have had access to some of their targets’ computer networks for “at least ...
After the disaster, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government remained silent to the public, while no media were allowed to make reports. [ 5 ] [ 9 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 1987, Yu Weimin (于为民), a journalist from Henan Daily wrote a book on the disaster, while in 1995 the news agency took the lead and published details ...