Sixty-year-old Mrs. Li has lived at Shuitouzhuang for 20 years - ever since her last home, a single story house near Beijing South railway station, was bulldozed for redevelopment.
现年60岁的李女士已经在水头庄居住20年了,此前她住在北京南站附近的一个平房里,那里因为要重建也已经拆迁了。
Beijing is not alone in building out forests of gleaming new office blocks in the middle of nowhere. London did the same when it designated the industrial wasteland around Canary Wharf as a financial hub back in the 1980s. What was ridiculed at the time as a quixotic venture is now one of the world's key financial centers. The development succeeded on its own terms, even if locals complain that it is miles from anything and has all the soul of a car showroom.
北京并不是唯一一个在偏远郊区兴建闪闪发光的新写字楼森林的城市。伦敦也曾在上世纪80年代将金丝雀码头(Canary Wharf)附近的工业废弃地规划为一个金融中心。尽管当时被嘲讽为不切实际的冒险,现在这里已经成为全球主要金融中心之一。这一开发项目靠自身努力取得了成功,尽管当地人抱怨这里离市区太远,并且设计理念完全类似于汽车展厅。
But China already has a major international financial center at Shanghai, and a secondary stock exchange in the southern city of Shenzhen. Seventy miles south-east of Beijing, Tianjin has ambitions to turn itself into a banking center. If China's troubled financial system really hits the rocks some of those offices are going to be empty a very long time.
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