30-story-hotel built in 15 days

(Ecns.cn)—A construction company in Hunan Province of Central China completed a 30-story prefabricated hotel in just 15 days this New Year's season and posted a video to show off their "record accomplishment."

According to the company, the construction adopted the most cutting edge technology, ensuring its capacity to resist earthquakes measuring 9.0. In addition, builders claim the whole construction saved 5 times the energy and 6 times the wood ordinary projects would use.

The impressive video caught the immediate attention from outside China and was labeled by the Daily Mail as an example of "Chinese Speed." Many foreigners were stunned by the speed-of-light construction, some cheered the new technology, and others worried about the potential safety hazards posed by that level of ambition.

And when it was loaded on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, it enjoyed 80,000 clicks within one day. The publicity brought the company under fire however, with many doubting the quality of such hurried construction. The new technology is in its infancy after all, and needs time to mature, said the Sanxiang City Express.

Despite the criticism, Yuanda, the construction company in question, has announced another plan to finish a 200-story building in 6 months.