" Shanghai's foundations are built on soft soil- so building multistoried spaces underground would be like digging holes in a piece of bean curd, " the government reports said, " the difficulties are easy to see" .

“上海的地基建在软土上——所以在地下建造多层空间就像在一块豆腐上挖洞，”政府报告说，“困难显而易见”。