Comments on: Like In The Fable Of Yu Gong, Developers In Lanzhou Moving Mountains To Build New City http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/like-in-the-fable-of-yu-gong-developers-in-lanzhou-moving-mountains-to-build-new-city/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: masomenos http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/like-in-the-fable-of-yu-gong-developers-in-lanzhou-moving-mountains-to-build-new-city/#comment-210340 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:56:38 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=7283#comment-210340 (Lanzhou lies in a canyon cut through deep silt deposits (loess) and bedrock. Air becomes trapped in the canyon and Lanzhou’s air quality is bad to terrible. Several years ago, there was a proposal to “cut a hole in the mountain” or canyon wall to improve air circulation, but it never happened.

My colleague in Lanzhou tells me there is a new city planned, but it will be on the upland plain where the airport is now – 50-60km from Lanzhou proper, where some small hills will be leveled. Remember that hill and mountain in Chinese are the same word – “shan”.

]]> By: RhZ http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/like-in-the-fable-of-yu-gong-developers-in-lanzhou-moving-mountains-to-build-new-city/#comment-208949 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:23:23 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=7283#comment-208949 Yeah 700 ‘mountains’ in 10 square miles is the tip off.

]]> By: jdmartinsen http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/like-in-the-fable-of-yu-gong-developers-in-lanzhou-moving-mountains-to-build-new-city/#comment-208198 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:42:19 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=7283#comment-208198 Oh, the sensationalism! Although the 中国经济周刊 article linked from the Guardian piece also frames this as a mountain-moving project, the quotes it provides from the actual development plan imply something rather less hubristic: the area is made up low hills and slopes, so a total of more than 700 hillocks will be bulldozed (整体推移山丘700余座). The old men may be foolish, but they’re not really trying to move any mountains.

]]> By: Andao http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/like-in-the-fable-of-yu-gong-developers-in-lanzhou-moving-mountains-to-build-new-city/#comment-208175 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:35:34 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=7283#comment-208175 Is there any evidence of demand for this? Or they just doing it for kicks?

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