How long can China keep building 14k skyscrapers per year?

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That’s the question that has plagued me for ten years. Via James White of Lessep Investment Management, at the AFR:

If China’s annual residential property sold was built in Eureka Towers (14,000 of them) and one constructed every 65 metres, it would line the Hume Highway from Sydney to Melbourne.

In terms of population, 14,000 Eureka Towers, with 556 apartments and an average two occupants per apartment, is equivalent to 15 million people, matching annual urbanisation of one per cent or 14 million people.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.