| 1 | I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. | |
| 2 | 246BC Ying Zheng becomes King of Qin state and begins work on his tomb. | |
| 3 | But when they built more houses they had just that much less manpower and productive capacity left over for everything else. | |
| 4 | In other words, China could get rid of income taxes altogether and still have plenty to spend on bridges (and highways) to nowhere. | |
| 5 | Still more uncertain is whether China, with its growing weight of mega constructions, can turn its economic progress on to an environmentally sustainable track. |