中国の世界最大のショッピング・モールと世界最大級の空港

北京のゴールデン・リソース・ショッピング・モールは世界最大のモール。また，オリンピック開催による観光客の増加を見込んで建設される北京の空港は，第5ターミナルが完成すれば世界で最大級となる。

It takes about two days to explore Beijing's new Golden Resources Shopping Mall - the world's largest. Minnesota's "Mall of America" is 4 million square feet. Golden Resources, built in an impressive 20 months and opened Oct. 24, is 6 million square feet.
With 230 escalators, more than 1,000 shops, restaurant space the size of two football fields, and a skating rink - the Art Deco mall is a testament in glass and steel to the communist party's desire to create a stable, happy, middle-income consumer class.

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Prominent British architect Lord Foster has been roped in by the Chinese government to build the world's biggest airport in Beijing well before the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Describing it as a "truly awesome" project, Lord Foster was quoted by The Telegraph as saying that the construction of the airport would take at least three years to complete, and added that at end Beijing's new airport would be larger than the current biggest airport in Hong Kong as well as London's very busy Heathrow Airport.

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