Beijing Officials Build Mini-Kremlin (Updated)
As officials are repeatedly exhorted to remember the lessons of the Soviet Union’s collapse,...
vanity projects
China Vows Austerity; Giant Fish Devours $11 Million
Following a freeze on construction of new government buildings aimed at reining in embarrassingly...
Five Year Ban Imposed on New Government Buildings
Central authorities issued a directive on Tuesday banning the construction of new governmental buildings for five years. Xinhua gives details: The directive called on all CPC and government bodies to be frugal and ensure that...
Portraits of Government Buildings in China
Architectural extravagance in China has attracted a great deal of attention in recent months, with a Harbin pharmaceutical company and the Jiangsu village of Huaxi offering particular highlights, and a Los Angeles Times article...
Huaxi: The Village That Towers Above China
The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts revisited the village of Huaxi ahead of the official unveiling of its new centrepiece, a 72-storey skyscraper housing a one-tonne, 300 million yuan solid gold ox. An incongruous new sight has...
Amid Poverty, Chinese Officials Splurge on Lavish Vanity Projects
At The Los Angeles Times, David Pierson and Jonathan Kaiman survey the mass of “face projects” built by China’s local governments in recent years. There are no highways running through this impoverished rural...
Projects Built to Earn Face Become a Disgrace – China Daily
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 […]
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