The Western media has been on an endless crusade to slander and denigrate anything and everything about China, so a single building started swaying and they jumped on the opportunity to write a hundred propaganda articles. Right on cue, the Indian lapdogs (slumdogs?) on this forum started jumping up and down in response to their master.
In reality, China's total housing stock is probably one of the most durable and long-lasting. I'll explain why, but before that let's talk about American houses.
The vast majority of American houses in the suburbs are made of weak wooden beams and flimsy plywood. Doesn't matter if the house is big or small, cheap or expensive, the underlying material and construction methods are the same.
Want an example of the flimsy nature of American homes? Google some before and after pictures of the 2020 wildfires. Entire neighborhoods of wood-framed houses burn to the ground.
It's not just fires. But tornadoes and hurricanes wipe out American homes the exact same way. Entire towns get flattened.
Now we go to China. Every year China produces and consumes 50-60% of the world's concrete and constructs residential real estate like this:
The above photos are from Xiong'an. Notice how China's communist economic system has the ability to produce a literal forest of concrete high-rise apartment buildings and cranes as far as the eye can see. An entire brand-new megacity is being built all at once right in front of your eyes. Notice how the Western media doesn't even talk about Xiong'an. Barely a peep from CNN, Fox News, WSJ, CNBC, New York Times. They won't even call it a ghost city because they know it's not true, so instead they pretend it doesn't exist lol.
Concrete is fireproof, bulletproof, can resist hurricane force winds, and is immune from termites and wood rot.
Want an example of the durable nature of concrete? How about the Roman Pantheon? It has lasted nearly two thousand years.
