I visited Shanghai couple of days ago and I saw many old apartment buildings along the main streets were covered by bamboo scaffolding with the workers busy scrambling up and down. It seems like they never mind that hundreds of bamboo poles are tied together with merely some extra long twist-ties. After a few seconds I realized that Shanghai is going to host the World Expo 2010 in next May so the local government must renovate everything which turns the city into a huge construction site just same as what’d happened before Beijing Olympics.

Bamboo Scaffolding

Bamboo Scaffolding

Bamboo Scaffolding