And you think WE have a polution problem?

[wa3zrm]

China starts televising the sunrise on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog

The smog has become so thick in Beijing that the city's natural light-starved masses have begun flocking to huge digital commercial television screens across the city to observe virtual sunrises.
The futuristic screens installed in the Chinese capital usually advertize tourist destinations, but as the season's first wave of extremely dangerous smog hit - residents donned air masks and left their homes to watch the only place where the sun would hail over the horizon that morning.
Commuters across Beijing found themselves cloaked in a thick, gray haze on Thursday as air pollution monitors issued a severe air warning and ordered the elderly and school children to stay indoors until the quality improved.
The air took on an acrid odor, and many of the city's commuters wore industrial strength face masks as they hurried to work.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...

[Premium Parrots]

kill me now

[WickedKitchen]

And then there's this:

[lxskllr]

If the government is paying for the buildings, why don't they sell/rent them at prices the people can afford? Getting $10,000 for a $100,000 item is better than getting $0, and it'll improve morale.

[WickedKitchen]

On Christmas, my brother-in-law put an image of a fire on his TV. It was annoying 'till I found the scotch.

[Andy105]

In communist China, everyone probably has the same carbon footprint. That's a lot of footprints. But, the egg rolls are awesome!
Also, they own $1.3 TRILLION of U.S. Debt, so we might have to clean their windows

[Thunder_Snus]

And then there's this:

Pretty sad. If wealthy individuals eventually buy all of them it just takes one of them to lower their prices before everyone else follows suit. This isn't a situation like i usually see here where people want the apartment that costs 750 a month but they only can afford 400 and they rent it anyways even though there is plenty of property for 400....figuratively almost noone can afford to buy the property being built where they already live. Does China not have an economist on hand to tell them how terrible an idea this is?

[WickedKitchen]

If it's a long-range plan it should work. I mean, the population of China is friggin huge and getting bigger faster than just about any other culture. Maybe the Muslims, as a culture, might surpass the Chinese but they're already spread much farther so I think the situation is different. Movement of the people to metropolitan centers has its advantages...for government. This would probably be posed as a benefit to the people but that remains to be seen as does any actual overall benefit be realized.

In conjunction with the people moving into the cities the country could experience agriculture on the same massive scale converting most everything in between to one or the other. I'd pick the country...if I had the choice but looking at it from a fifty thousand foot range, it seems a logical solution to this Chinese problem, or at least a plausible solution.

That being said, IMHO Chinese building materials aren't exactly engineered to stand the test of time...at least those used here in the US...but I'm getting off topic here.

[Burnsey]

In communist China, everyone probably has the same carbon footprint. That's a lot of footprints. But, the egg rolls are awesome!
Also, they own $1.3 TRILLION of U.S. Debt, so we might have to clean their windows

We could just print more money....oh, we're already doing that.

[trebli]

At least it hasn't been vandalized and striped bare like Detroit.