Construction boom in the People's Republic of China has reached unprecedented heights. Two decades ago, the country tried to catch up with developed countries. Now China in many ways already broke far ahead.
Statistics say that over the past two years, China has produced more concrete than the United States for the entire twentieth century.
China is one of few countries in the modern world, which is building by the whole cities. Throughout the People's Republic of China is the construction of new settlements.
Now in China, 220 cities and 23 settlements, where more than 5 million people live.
Last year, China built more than half the skyscrapers in the world, and he does not plan to slow down its rapid urbanization. But how do its workers build high towers so fast?
This is the secret weapon of the country: a powerful machine for building skyscrapers, called the "monster to climb the walls. The huge construction machine weighs 2000 tons and is designed by Chinese engineers. It provides a working platform for the construction of the building upward and can remain stable even at an altitude of more than 500 meters above ground, according to the program of Chinese State Television.
It is also said that the self-supporting platform can withstand the weight up to 2000 tons and even withstand a hurricane force. China claims that a machine designed by the country's own engineers can accelerate the construction process by 20 percent. With two tracks on each side and 12 hydraulic jacks, the machine can climb evenly once the workers have finished building several floors above to create a new and higher working platform.
Each of the anchor points on the tracks can weigh up to 400 tons. Currently, this machine is used to build Wuhan Greenland Center in the capital of Hubei Province.
A 119-story skyscraper worth 3.3 billion pounds should be completed by the end of 2020. The high-rise tower, 636 meters high, should become the tallest building in China - to overtake the Shanghai Tower by four meters.
Nowhere else in the world there is an ambition to build skyscrapers than in China. The nation already has five of the 10 tallest buildings in the world. And last year he built 76 of 144 new skyscrapers in the world - those above 200 meters.
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