The Company also involves in industrial installation, steel structure, the production of concrete, building decoration, landscape construction, railway construction and electric power businesses, among others.

FORBES: China State Construction

The Ecole's architectural commissions illustrated this link: private townhouses for doctors, a coal merchant and a brewer, for example, as well as the construction or (re)decoration of a printing works, grain store, furrier's shop, department stores and, significantly, a church and three banks.

ECONOMIST: Decorative arts

The middle classes tend to hire decoration companies, which subcontract to whichever construction firm pays the best kickbacks.

ECONOMIST: Consumer goods