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While I agree that it's hard to out-engineer mother nature, the Zhengzhou plan specifically states that the purpose of several of its measures is to help prevent large-scale floods. To be fair, the plan was 10 years from being done, was not designed for such extremes. 7/11
That said, a well-built emergency response system, in tandem with a well-built "sponge city" system, should have helped prevent the loss of life. RMB 50 billion is a lot of money to spend on a system that doesn't. 8/11
Point being: it is not uncommon for local governments to implement smart city initiatives poorly because the central gov wants cities to roll out buzzy technology. 9/11
Other point being: All the smart tech in the world doesn't fix problems if the humans operating those systems are not well trained, or are not doing their jobs. Will be very interested to see what the investigation turns up. 10/11
Other other point being: It's important to note that "China" is not a monolith. The central government has long struggled to get local govs to follow through on "high-quality development," but this is much easier said than done. 11/11
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