On one of my first trips to China in the early 1990s, on the drive from Beijing airport, I remember gazing out at hundreds of workers labouring with little more than shovels on a new highway snaking its way through farmland towards the capital. By the time the Olympics came to the city in 2008, the road had been joined by a second expressway and China had grown into the world’s largest construction market. Last year, it completed the world’s second-highest building: the Shanghai Tower, 632m of luxury offices, designer shops and a high-end hotel.
在上世紀90年代初我最初幾次去中國的旅程中，記得有一次在從北京機場出來的車上，我看見成百上千的工人，手中拿著不過是鐵鍁之類的工具，修一條從農村蜿蜒通往首都北京的公路。到2008年北京舉辦奧運會之時，這條路以外又多了一條高速路，中國也已成長爲全球最大建築市場。去年，中國建成了全球第二高樓：上海中心大廈(Shanghai Tower)，這是一棟由豪華辦公室、名牌商店和高階酒店組成的632米的高樓。
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