Norman Foster
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And it's foggy.
It's misty.
You can't see.
The cities now, unbelievable.
I mean, clean air, 90% of the vehicles, electric, and an extraordinary amount of green.
I mean, Shanghai is 50%, Beijing, 50% green.
That's happened over the last few decades.
And
And in terms of connectivity, just over 54,000 kilometers of high-speed train.
220 miles an hour, 350 kilometers an hour.
Connecting, by this, 97% of Chinese cities.
On a big day, 13 million travelers.
Achieved in 16 years.
And in the UK, they gave up on the London to Manchester.
It goes as far as Birmingham, short-termism.
They have a department for leveling up.
The ultimate leveling up is connectivity.
They just didn't get it.
And that 54,000 kilometers is more than the rest of the world put together by a huge margin.
Because at every stage in the emergence of a nation, whether that is the United Kingdom