Thursday, 30 September 2010

Great Wall of China


President Richard Nixon once famously said, “this is a great wall and only a great people with a great past could have a great wall and such a great people with such a great wall will surely have a great future.”

According to the Chinese saying, you should plant trees in your youth so that you can sit in the shade in your old age. This way of thinking has long instructed the Chinese approach to development and helps explain why China has invested so heavily in infrastructure.

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