First of Its Kind Survey Shows How Many Buildings China Has

What’s new: China has close to 600 million buildings in the country, according to a survey that has for the first time put a number on the vast amount of construction that exists nationwide.

Personnel in the housing and urban-rural development sector obtained the data on the number of buildings during China’s first national survey on natural disaster risks, National Disaster Reduction Committee Secretary General Zheng Guoguang said at a press briefing last week. He didn’t elaborate on the number.