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Future Ai Weiwei Commentary of the Day: 3000-Year-Old Tombs Mistakenly Bulldozed in Guangzhou
The Chinese city is building out its subway system so fast, this Shang dynasty archaeological site never stood a chance.
If you're from the U.S.A., where you can while your life away waiting for public infrastructure projects to get off the ground, this may come as shock: the Chinese city of Guangzhou has built eight subway lines since 1997, and they're building more now. (Some people actually think China is building subways too fast!)
Guangzhou is building its subway system so fast, in fact, that contractors surreptitiously bulldozed an archaeological site containing a half-dozen tombs from the Shang dynasty, dating from 2,200 to 3,000 years ago.