Nineteen buildings in Wuhan's downtown area were demolished by five tons of explosives in only 10 seconds on Saturday, in order to build a new business district in the capital of central China's Hubei Province. The blast area was located in the city's downtown area which lies next to a light rail viaduct, residential communities, a shopping mall and a transformer substation. "For this kind of large-scale blasting demolition conducted in the downtown area, we not only need to guarantee the demolition result, but also strictly control the adverse effects of blasting," said Jia Yongsheng, general director of the project Jia said his team erected more than 120,000 protective screens and prepared five tons of explosives. In order to guarantee safety, they set the collapse time to the millisecond. "The demolition effect was ideal. The explosion didn’t affect the light rail and public facilities around the blasted buildings. There was no damage or adverse effects of blasting," said Jia. Subscribe to us on Youtube: https://goo.gl/lP12gA Download for IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cctvnews-app/id922456579?l=zh&ls=1&mt=8 Download for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imib.cctv Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChinaGlobalTVNetwork/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial Google+: https://plus.google.com/+CCTVNEWSbeijing Tumblr: http://cctvnews.tumblr.com/ Weibo: http://weibo.com/cctvnewsbeijing

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1. was those buildings ever inhabited? i know millions of flats and complete buildings is sitting idle and unfinished in china. and a lot of them is build just to drive the prices up befor the sale of the land to developers and never meant to have ppl in them at all.
2. This is the hidden truth that how Chinese GDP soars. Not gonna to end well.
3. Its probably a good thing, they looked like the projects in the US.
4. should have left the sound alone
5. What a waste, with all the people who can't find a place to live
6. It must be a pain in the butt to wire all the bomb wire.
7. This make 911 a peanut butter