Friday, May 23, 2008 12:00 PDT
China’s tofu construction
A rescue worker digging through the rubble of a school that collapse in the Sichuan earthquake, killing 278 students exclaims:
“It’s this tofu dregs construction! Inside the concrete, there’s only wire, not a single bit reinforcing bar.”
The school was built in 1994. (From Southern Weekend, translated by China Digital Times.)
And in other earthquake-related news, China Vortex features a striking, and humbling, chart showing Google China’s search logs for the afternoon of May 19th, when China observed three minutes of silence in memory of the dead.
As China Vortex observes, “The graph says it all.”
Posted in: China