Part of the issue is that the Chinese government's leaders have decided to put quality-of-life concerns ahead of maximizing economic growth when it comes to two of the country's largest industries: housing and autos.
This map could be connected to local industries, housing and transit infrastructure, types of businesses, and everything else.
That brought us in contact with many new stakeholders, including people from industry, house owners, insurance companies, nature conservation organisations, designers, engineers and municipalities.
Closed bases can be converted to private sector investment for new industry, housing, schools or parks.
Some 260 metres long, this cathedral of industry houses three part-built grey and black nuclear submarines.
SimCity asked players to juggle taxes, industry, housing, transport and much else besides, and it made it all remarkably fun.
The competition is between three major uses: 'wild land', especially forest; agriculture; and urban uses, such as industry, housing and transport.
Visitors to Nanjie have only to look at some of the neighbouring villages, where there is little industry, houses are dilapidated and land is farmed in an inefficient patchwork of household plots, to realise that this is quite an achievement.
He also talked about the hardships of farmers who are suffering from the country's rapid growth as developers buy up their land for industry, housing and golf courses.
Higher unemployment and rising bankruptcies could easily cause a vicious new downward lurch.In Britain, given the size of its finance industry, housing boom and consumer debt, the balance-sheet adjustment will, if anything, be greater.
Incongruously, Industry housed one of only two public golf museums in the country.
