然而中国经济其中一个引人注目的特点就是房地产和城市基础设施建设 — — 高层住宅、大型交通枢纽、会议中心，体育馆和博物馆都比在同一经济发展阶段的日本和韩国要扮演更重要的角色。
One striking feature of the Chinese economy, however, is that real estate and urban infrastructure development – high-rise housing, grand transport projects, convention centers, sports stadiums, and museums – already play a far more important role than they did in Japan and South Korea at comparable stages of economic development.