>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8248197/China-builds-worlds-longest-bridge.html
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>4 years, 26.4 miles, £5.5billion~$8.8billion = $208million/mile
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>By comparisson : consider the new East Span of the SF Bay Bridge
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>11 years 2.2 miles, $5.487 billion (est) = $2.494billion/mile
>http://baybridgeinfo.org/faq
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>10x more cost efficient = A thumpin!

This is the kind of post that brings out the Merle Haggard in me.

For one thing Chinese workers earn peanuts. That sure will bring the cost down. For another they steal ideas, they don't create them. Tell me one good thing China has invented since moo goo gai pan. They are company men, not visionaries. (And I do mean men. Good luck being a woman in China).

The American companies who want to continue offshoring scut work to countries like China will continue to do so. That's just how it happens in our green eyeshades world. But if you're trying to make a point that China is 10 times more efficient or powerful than we are, I fervently disagree with you.