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RSS FeedsINSIGHT-Deep in the red: Chinese county pays price for vanity-project binge
(WorldNews China)

 
 

16 december 2018 04:29:03

 
INSIGHT-Deep in the red: Chinese county pays price for vanity-project binge
(WorldNews China)
 


RUCHENG COUNTY, China--In the heart of an impoverished village in southern China, a life-sized statue of Mao Zedong sits on a platform adorned with intricate stonework, flanked by a diorama of Red Army soldiers and traditional brick-and-tile homes with curved roofs. Officials have spent a small fortune on the project that has transformed the village of Shazhou, in Hunan province, into an open-air museum dedicated to the Chinese Communist Party. But few tourists have come to peer at the inscription at the foot of Mao`s statue, or take selfies in front of the heroes of the revolution. The `red tourism` project was the brainchild of the former Communist Party chief of the local county, Rucheng,...


 
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