They are very efficient at building infrastructure, power plants, and the like.

Chinese and efficient...in the same paragraph?! My eyes just rolled.

Yes, the trains may run like clockwork and with military precision, but then so does the high speed rail in Taiwan (noooo, can't mention that renegade province can we?) I am led to believe,and Japan also. FYI, Italy and Spain also have a high speed rail system, despite being much smaller countries, and they built it when they took time away from eating paella and spaghetti. So stop with the "we chinese are masters of the universe" line. The west had power plants,tractors, and roads while you were still eating rice and ploughing fields with water buffalo...if you are not careful it might be back to the rice paddies getting muddy again, esp if you piss off foreign investors.

http://www.ninecommentaries.com/english-4/

In the 1950s, under the guidance of the Soviet experts, the CCP built the Sanmenxia hydraulic power station on the Yellow River. To this day, this power station only gives a generating capacity at the level of a medium-sized river, despite the fact that the Yellow River is the second largest river in China. To make matters worse, this project has caused an accumulation of mud and sand at the river’s upper reaches and raised the height of the riverbed. Because of this, even a moderate flood brings enormous losses in life and property to people on both sides of the riverbank. In the 2003 flood of the Wei River, the peak water flux was 3700 cubic meters per second, a level that may occur every three to five years. Yet that flood caused a disaster unprecedented in the past 50 years.

There have been a multitude of large-scale reservoirs built in the locality of Zhumadian, Henan Province. In 1975, the dams of these reservoirs collapsed one after another. Within a short duration of two hours, 60,000 people were drowned. The total death toll reached as high as 200,000.

The CCP continues wanton acts of destruction on the land of China. The Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River and the South-to-North Water Transfer Project are all attempts by the CCP to change the natural ecosystems with investments amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars. This is not to mention those small and medium-sized projects to “fight with the earth.” Furthermore, it was once suggested within the CCP that an atomic bomb be used to blast open a passage on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to change the natural environment in western China. Although the CCP’s arrogance and contempt for the land have shocked the world, they are not unexpected.

There is some more genius chinese engineering and innovation at work!!!! An atomic bomb to blast open a passage, amazing logic, not!