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Building being demolished. There is no way for me to estimate the number of square kilometers/miles that have been cleared for new construction in Beijing. We happened to be walking by the next day when the last of this building was knocked down. Unfortunately, between the wholesale historical and religious cleansing of the Cultural Revolution and the indiscriminate destruction of the current wave of development, very, very little of China's culture remains. It will be interesting to see if the government can successfully build and retain a society on the cultural basis of all that remains: consumption and materialism. Central Beijing, China.