Here comes a really green mountain in southwest China. It was painted. Wondering how it smells. An update on an earlier post. From China Daily:
A rocky hill in Fumin County of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province was painted green last year. A worker who took part in the painting of more than 1,000 square meters of bare rock revealed that the project took seven people 45 days, and cost 470,000 yuan (US$ 60,645), reported Star Daily on February 14.
Sources say the county Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry originally initiated the project. Later, there were also reports that it was finished by a private business owner, who wanted to change the fengshui in the area, and it cost only about 10,000 yuan (US$ 1,290).
A netizen on sohu.com who said his job was concerned with making budgets said that 10,000 yuan (US$ 1,290) would be hardly enough for the paint. Some even concluded that the “private business owner” was just used as a scapegoat after the project was picked up by the media and subjected to harsh criticism. [Full Text]
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