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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smartm" data-source="post: 30694085" data-attributes="member: 114079">In one of the most extreme landscapes on Earth, China has pulled off the unthinkable: a $7.7 billion-dollar vertical ship elevator that lifts 10,000-ton vessels nearly 200 meters straight into the sky. [MEDIA=youtube]wQVYOaczAj8[/MEDIA]<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="📍" title="Round pushpin    :round_pushpin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f4cd.png" data-shortname=":round_pushpin:" /> Built in Guizhou Province, one of China’s poorest and most isolated regions, this lift transformed a logistical dead zone into a thriving inland shipping hub. Shipping costs dropped by 67%. Foreign investment surged by 83%. Entire villages were reborn around this new inland “highway in the sky.”</blockquote>

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