中国在基础设施建设方面拥有显而易见的比较优势，这来自其低廉的劳动力成本（中国工地工头的成本是经合组织国家的八分之一）以及使其能够实现其他国家无从实现的规模经济的巨大的国内市场。
China has a clear comparative advantage in infrastructure construction, owing to its lower labor costs (the cost of a project site foreman in China is one-eighth that of OECD countries) and vast domestic market, which have enabled it to achieve economies of scale that other countries simply cannot.