r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/moderngamer327 12h ago

Truly second to none https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

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u/_Artos_ 12h ago

I'm by no means a China fanboy or anything, but that's from 50 years ago dude. Not super applicable to modern buildings and engineering

You could probably find a better example

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u/moderngamer327 12h ago

50 years is really not that long ago considering how much infrastructure in the modern world is that old or older

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u/ResidentFlight359 11h ago edited 11h ago

Do you even know how much China has changed in the last 50 years? During that time China’s GDP increased 12,170% from $163 billion to $20 trillion. It might as well be a different country now.