She guesses it is only a few years old; one of seven identikit mock-Tudor mansions built on a recent cul-de-sac development just outside Chichester.

Lin, born Lin Cheng-yi in 1952 in Yilan, swam about 2,000 meters to the Chinese city of Xiamen in May 1979, when he was serving as commanding officer of a frontline company in Kinmen. The outlying island county, as well as the Matsu islands to the north, is under the administration of Fuchien (Fujian) Province of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

But the ambitious project requires Related to spend about $2 billion to erect platforms, columns and foundations over a working railyard before it can build the first tower.

An illustration of this is provided by the Lan-ch'i County Gazetteer (Lan-ch'i hsien-chih) for the Cheng-te reign (1506-1521), which gives the following figures from a survey made around 1228 in Lan-ch'i county in Wu-chou (present-day Chin-hua) in Chekiang: