Huang Quan bid farewell to Lao Shun and walked out of the high-end luxury residence located within the third ring of Jing. He strolled along the streets of this city where he was born and raised, noticing many differences from the past, yet many similarities remained. The towering buildings, dozens of floors high, mostly retained their original structures, with the majority undergoing internal renovation, updates to wiring and IoT retrofitting, among other things.
Even some buildings, which were not considered particularly attractive, had a new outer shell added, transforming them into stunning, sci-fi-like structures.
As Huang Quan meandered, he came across a crowd gathered around a demolition and reconstruction project. A high-rise office building from the 90s was scheduled for demolition under the city government's plans to erect a taller, more advanced building on the original site.