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Chongqing, the next big thing?

Build the city, and the people and businesses will come. Or so the government hopes. Watch this video, Chongqing, City on Steroids, to see Chinese capitalism at work, for better of worse. The video is long and clearly intended for... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Sun, May 11 2008

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