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Construction booms in London as new financial year begins (10)

People's Daily Online)  16:33, March 22, 2013  

Liverpool Street in downtown London is under construction. (Photo/ People’s Daily Online)

By Wang Yisan, Bai Tianxing and Zhang Xiaolong

April is the beginning month of the U.K.’s new financial year. Construction of public facilities will kick off in many places around the country at this time every year.

It is common that constructions of many public facilities begin at the end of a financial year. In some places the workers do nothing but excavate the ground. After the local governments issue their budget these constructions disappear.

People’s Daily Online reporter notices that public funded activities such as business trips increase significantly at the end of the financial year.

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(Editor:YaoChun、Liang Jun)

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