While I think there's a certain romance and grandeur about enormous and lasting infrastructural projects, it's a little frightening how quickly we can forget our mistakes.
Even though so very much has changed in China since the Great Leap Forward in the 50s and 60s, I wonder how carefully the consequences of poor planning, overstretching one's resources, shifting economic conditions and miscalculation were taken into account.
Even though so very much has changed in China since the Great Leap Forward in the 50s and 60s, I wonder how carefully the consequences of poor planning, overstretching one's resources, shifting economic conditions and miscalculation were taken into account.