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The in-depth story of the Chinese Tofu Building Incidents. Imagine just taking out a huge loan to buy your own newly built apartment, but the stairs collapsed, and your ceiling fell apart. It’s not just homes that crumble but infrastructure as well.
Everywhere you go, things are collapsing. Almost every collapse brings talk of change, but then it happens again, and the outcome has been tragic.
In Chinese media, these construction disasters became known as *Tofu dreg projects*.
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what happens when you don't use galvanized steel beams and eco friendly wood veneer secured to the wall using screws you borrowed from your aunt
In american news, when an american dies, it’s a tragedy.
When somebody somewhere else in the world died, it’s the fault of whomever they are trying to make into the bad guy.
I feel like he explained the Tofu dreg in China quite well. If he teamed up with Serpentza, he would be unbeatable at covering disasters like this.
"made in china" …. ….. Says. it. all.
China built a bunch of shitty buildings to artificially inflate their gdp. How many ghost cities do they have!
Before watching the video, I've always wondered why it was called tofu dreg construction when, as in the thumbnail on this very video (I don't know if it will change or not), it is obvious that the buildings are better than most American buildings and are often in one piece when they fall over. It is a lack of a proper foundation that is the issue in this case, and many other examples. Hopefully I learn something here.
it's not only poor building materials and poor construction standards, it's also a general lack of maintenance that occurs on all levels.
throw in the rampant corruption on top of these problems and it's easy to see why buildings seemingly fall apart with ease
this is a very interesting video to watch right after consuming a lot of galvanized square steel content
It's not just the corruption, but the general policy. Large, often Government owned, construction companies bid for jobs and get them. However these companies and just offices. So the sub-contract the job, taking a slice of the money. This repeats several times each company taking a slice of the budget till it gets to the smaller company who are going to do the work. But by this time the profit is so small corners have to be cut. Such things as bamboo instead of rebar, inferior materials, etc. Throw in the building boom and even the big companies are struggling and even going bust.
Thank you for covering this, this needed more coverage
omg i feel so sorry for those people in china. the US has an infrastructure issue too, most of our infrastructure was built 100yrs ago. we're def gonna need to replace it soon
This channel will have unlimited source for video topics in China alone, but it will be boring as the reason for disastrous incidents is always the same — corruption 😂
China's quality is what I thought is like 😂❤
Love tour videos, I found them so riveting. Keep It up!
May you make a video in the future about italian disasters?
Ah! The Chinese,,,,,, nuff said
Well, they were made in China…
RIP to all those who lost their lives.
you are doomed for every second if you are in China
China is fuckin terrifying. I feel sorry for the comman chinese citizen
C H I N A
I liked it better when the ad wasn’t integrated into the video. It feels icky.
Yup servers you right. 😂 Jeez life sucks sometimes
The Chinese facade, that they are the future is falling apart like everything they build. Just like the Soviet Union.
Sad how corrupt and insensitive the Chinese government truly is. Also do any Chinese engineers actually have a college degree?
2:34 that one is also similiar happened to bocimi toll road in Indonesia, 2 month ago before this
China is full of corruption and cheaply built products. Tofu building, Tofu roads, cheaply built EVs. And the CCP tries to cover as much of it up as possible.
Rare to see building collapse in the West. Surfside wasn't because of bad build quality.
“CHAYINA” -Trump
The lessons of life. This is tragic.
Everyone touts capitalism as the greatest monetary earning system of the world, but the serious flaws of placing profits over everything are becoming more and more evident as time passes. I see it every day at my own job, the bosses push for the dirt cheapest bids despite knowing those contractors will utilize the absolute most trash materials and equipment to save their own bottom line. We get new builds that fail in a matter of years at best, and months more often than not. Rather than looking at the vendors source materials, the time they take to ensure their work is setting up well and is stable, and the quality of past jobs the motto today is the cheaper and faster the better. This of course can only lead to failure after failure, catastrophically no less. But this is true for almost every sector these days, the manufactured food industries, health care (especially in america), construction of all facets, even machinery is becoming more prone to constant failure and need for replacement parts and upkeep. The reality is the mindset has swapped from quality and time to money and liability. It doesn't startle me at all that these events are occurring on larger and larger scales, but it does sadden me tremendously.
China exclusive specialties in projects Tofu Dreg.