In Hubei province, with a population of 57 million and a regional GDP of $225 billion in 2009, there were projects under construction by 2010 notionally costed at $363 billion.28 A further $390 billion and $450 billion were planned for 2011 and 2012. Taken at face value, this meant that a single Chinese province with a population the size of the UK and a GDP the size of Greece was engaging in a program of investment larger than any stimulus ever attempted in the United States.
