A western-style house with a long history in Shanghai has had to move to make way for road construction. It won't be destroyed, but amid the breakneck speed of development all around, the move is happening extremely slowly.
This three-story house was built in 1906 and occupies about 43 hundred square feet of land in Shanghai's Pudong District. But sadly, it's had to make room for a road. The local government says the 104-year-old house has precious cultural and historical value, and has decided to move it, rather than tear it down. But workers say moving such an old building is a special challenge.
It was a hot, stinky mess.
Here in Anping County in Hebei Province, locals had no electricity for stretches of up to 22-hours. That means no water, rotting food, classes without overhead projectors, a county hospital shutting down every few days.
Forget modern conveniences. This move was for the sake of the environment. Anding Country split the electricity grid into three sections and each power supply was alternately turned off for 22 hours, meaning residents and businesses were left for bouts without electricity.
With around 70% of its electricity generated from coal fired power stations and a huge demand for coke to make steel, China's hunger for coal is insatiable. This puts enormous pressure on the country's coalmines which are notorious for being amongst the most dangerous in the world.