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The 2008 earthquake that devastated China’s Sichuan province has become something of an afterthought in the wake of more recent natural disasters. Four years later, it seems all too easy to forget the emotional ache felt around the world when news outlets linked the collapse of over 7,000 schoolrooms and the deaths of thousands of school children in the area to poor construction and a corrupt building industry. Though such tragedies inevitably fade over time, it is important to remember their lessons, especially as China expects to complete over 65 skyscrapers within the next six years, and has already effectively built a 30-story hotel and furnished it all within a mere 360 hours.