Corporate hub is too crowded  

Twice a day and five days a week, I want to sing a song in my heart: I will surely cry for you, Beijing CBD-ya! Those who have lived long enough in China know the exclamatory "ya" is absolutely needed to emphasize emotions.

In this case, it is all because of the hopelessly clogged-up traffic in the streets that run across this Central Business District.

It defies one's imagination to think how any new streets can be added to a space where concrete towers are wedged so densely. It would perhaps be as costly as in Hong Kong's Central District, and at a risk of budget that overruns. And the budget for having more other services and conveniences there is enormous, not to mention meeting the standard for emergency evacuation and anti-terrorist drills.

With that amount of finance, municipal planners may just as well build a new business district - anyplace where access by major streets is better.