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International project
Mulan School
POINT
Infrastructure has been a major driver of growth across
China. Highways and high speed rail links proliferate
enabling the vast movement of goods and raw materials
to sites of production and consumption. These conduits
have also facilitated mass labour migration from rural
villages to factories. Although connecting many isolated
areas initiating urbanisation and investment opportunities,
in some instances the impact of infrastructure can have
detrimental local effects: farmland is bisected; villages
divided; and the environment can become degraded
through altered water courses and slope erosion.