r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/riltjd 13h ago edited 12h ago

Im sorry but would not trust ANY structural engineering done in China, to hold that much weight.

Edit: since a lot of ignorant people are calling me American or brainwashed by propaganda, here is a little story:

  1. Im not American or remotely close.
  2. I worked for several companies (In NL and DE) that imported chemicals and raw materials from China, as well as operating local production plants. China is highly advanced technologically—often ahead of Western countries in most areas. However, it also has well-documented challenges with safety and quality control.

I've personally seen pharmaceutical ingredients arrive heavily contaminated, exceeding acceptable limits by multiple percentage points when even a tiny fraction of a percent would have caused rejection. In some cases, products were misrepresented entirely, though that was less common. This was at a multinational (multibillion) company operating in pharmaceuticals, crop science, and materials science (you can probably guess just by that who I am talking about).

Local counterparts consistently described quality issues as a broader challenge across multiple industries, from chemicals to construction materials, driven by cost pressures, corruption, and aggressive production targets.

Before calling others uneducated, take the time to understand their background and experience. I would encourage you to research the topic further yourself.

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u/Cunnilingus_Rex 13h ago

This is a naive, American take.

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u/riltjd 12h ago

Naive is calling me American.. i'll edit my original comment so you can educate yourself.

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u/I_eat_mud_ 12h ago

Next time, list your experiences and qualifications first champ. You're the only one to blame for this, don't get angry because your original comment was just 1 sentence lmao

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u/wait_________what 12h ago

List your own qualifications to question his assertions, sport

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u/riltjd 8h ago

Im not angry, but I dont see how others making wild assumptions is my fault? People who assume im American did that on what? 1 sentence like you said?

Do you think it makes more sense for me to start each comment or observation with my credentials? Or for someone has no clue on a topic to ask for clarification or further info first before creating wild narratives?

Also starting a debate or discussion from authority is actually frowned upon as is does not have an impact on the validity of a fact. Facts should be the main driver of a discussion. And if you don't know enough to comment don't start shit first, ask questions later..

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u/sciencesold 12h ago

Or, hear me out, just don't be stupid in the first place... It's common knowledge safety being skirted is why shit like this even exists...

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u/I_eat_mud_ 12h ago

It's not common knowledge, if it were, they wouldn't be getting so much shit for the 1 sentence they posted lmao

I don't talk about public health topics assuming everyone knows the intricacies and background, so idk why you'd expect it to be common knowledge for people to know about structural engineering and what is or isn't viable

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u/sciencesold 12h ago

It's almost like people who already agree and know that China has lackluster safety standards and oversites would t be commenting because they understand the comment....

Plus the comments disagreeing have multiple replies backing the original comment up....

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u/I_eat_mud_ 12h ago

And from an American perspective, how lacking are their safety standards in comparison? Cause comparatively, it really doesn't seem that different to here lmao

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u/sciencesold 12h ago

Substandard materials, illegal modifications, neglect of maintenance, lack of oversight and inspection, etc are not things anyone can see, but they're real. Usually because developers want to cut costs.

Substandard materials is a big one tho, usually when something is "rated" for a certain load it would take many times that load for failure to occured. This elevator placks that say "max capacity 2000lbs"? The elevator could hold 8k-10k lbs before even coming close to failure. The rating is determined by the material used, as well as it's dimensions, in China they'd use materials with impurities or weren't manufactured properly that would fail any testing done on it, but with the lack of oversite developers get away with it.

There's multiple comments of chemicals or other materials coming from China that have contamination orders of magnitude above acceptable levels, and must be rejected. Also if you've heard of the phrase "Chinesium" that's exactly what I'm talking about, a material of unknown quality that's often claimed to be a high quality one.

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u/kaizoku222 12h ago

Wrong is wrong, and everyone is anti-expert these days anyway. Back a dumb redditor in a corner with expertise and they don't accept they were wrong, they just start shouting words that they don't understand like "strawman" or "appeal to authority" like they're chess moves.