It's real alright and everything you see there has been built within the last 26 years .

But even that is slow compared to what's happening in other parts of China.
For wotan, the tallest buildings in salford quays would probably be about the height of that white rectangular building at the front centre.
The tallest building there which isn't finished yet is the Shanghai tower and will be 632 metres tall when it's topped out, the second tallest in the world until some of the other buildings in China are completed.
The scale of the building projects all over the country there are awesome, nothing has ever been done anywhere that compares in terms of size and speed.