Another disgraceful PRC copy

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A visitor takes a photograph of a carved structure at the abandoned Wanguo park in Wuhan.

 

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A delivery man rides past replicas of Moai statues at a business district in Beijing.

A car drives on a roundabout with a windmill in the middle in Holland Village in Shenyang.

 

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A farmer tills the field near the replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Tianducheng development in Hangzhou.

Workers build a pavement at Fisherman's Wharf in Macau.

A family walks in the Chinese replica of Austria's UNESCO heritage site, Hallstatt village, in China's southern city of Huizhou.

 

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Children pose for pictures at the replica of Austria's UNESCO heritage site, Hallstatt village, in Huizhou.

A canal flows through the center of the Florentia Village in the district of Wuqing, located on the outskirts of the city of Tianjin.

Chinese workers walk past a 1 - 4 scale mini leaning Tower of Pisa in Shanghai.

 

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Fucking chinks have zero creativity.

 

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Visitors to Beijing's World Park walk across a replica of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Workers unload flower pots near a replica of the Arc de Triomphe at Beijing World Park.

Visitor takes photographs of a replica of the White House at Beijing World Park.

 

[sochi2014]

You must realize that there are 700 million people living in poverty in China and they do not have the opportunities like majority of Singaporeans to travel around the world to see the real stuffs.

 

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I’m being led into a faculty building at a small university in Xinle, a rural and dusty town 30km from Shijiazhuang, Hebei. Inside, I’m shown what can only be described as a vision. It’s a scale model of my most fantastical childhood daydreams made real. A Hogwarts meets Disneyland – complete with fairytale castles, giant white pyramids, replica cathedrals, temples and even a few towering steel skyscrapers. The bold plan – currently nothing more than a few faculty buildings and a construction site – is set to be complete in 2022. Welcome to the Hebei Academy of Fine Arts.

Artist and visionary businessmen Zhen Zhongyi founded the academy in 1996. “It’s the only privately operated of all the fine arts universities in China,” he tells us after our visit. “No such university has developed so rapidly – it’s got a unique place in the history of art education." The school has around 8,000 students, majoring in subjects such as traditional Chinese fine art, architecture and design. Under the leadership of the charismatic Zhen, the academy – by his own admission – has become successful (in a 2009 interview with China Radio International Zhen claimed that the school's graduate employment rate was 100 percent). "We want to make it an empire of the arts,” he tells us.

The collection of architectural eccentricities that Zhen plans for his empire has turned a few heads in the past month – mainly because the first of many future faculty buildings bears more than a passing resemblance to fiction’s most famous school of witchcraft and wizardry.

 

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Rolls-Royce considers legal action against £30,000 Chinese copycat

 

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Cairo Says China’s Fake Sphinx Harms Egypt’s ‘Cultural Heritage’

A full-size replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza is seen in Shijiazhuang, north China’s Hebei province on May 13, 2014.

Chinese tourists may have been thrilled about getting their very own Sphinx. Egypt, however, was less than pleased.

The country said it planned to file a complaint to Unesco over an imitation Sphinx built in China earlier this year because it “harms the cultural heritage of Egypt,” Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said in a statement. A Paris-based UNESCO spokeswoman said the organization had yet to receive a formal complaint.

The life-sized Chinese version of the Sphinx is part of a new theme park in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, just 300 kilometers southwest of Beijing. A manager at the theme park told the state-run China Daily that the Sphinx was constructed only as a movie prop and would be destroyed once the filming is complete, though he gave no timeframe.

China Real Time couldn’t reach the park for comment. Calls to the Shijiazhuang government rang unanswered on Monday.

The Chinese Sphinx has become a popular tourist attraction since it was finished in April. An anonymous worker from the construction company told China Daily that Sphinx cost about 8 million yuan ($1.3 million) to construct.

This isn’t the first time that Egypt and China have gotten into spats over matters of tourism. Last year, a Chinese teen ignited global anger after he was accused of carving his name on the wall of Egypt’s 3,000-year-old Luxor Temple.


Of course, the Sphinx isn’t the first look-alike to pop up in China, where one can find various versions of the White House, France’s Arch of Triumph, England’s London Tower Bridge, Australia’s Sydney Opera House or even the famous Austrian town of Hallstadt. There’s even a whole theme park devoted to miniature versions of the world’s most famous tourist sites.

Messages posted to the verified Weibo account of state broadcaster CCTV shamed Chinese cities for duplicating so many Western or ancient civilizations’ landmarks, noting that most have earned bad reputations or simply become a joke.

“Since [the duplicated Sphinx] is just for a movie, [the local company] should withdraw it quickly and not try to turn it into a permanent construction, which would cause trouble between these two ancient civilizations,” it said.

Others blasted the fact that China is building replicas of famous buildings from around the world while it is at the same time destroying much of its own architectural heritage.

“Tearing down our own historic buildings and duplicating others’ stuff. Maybe they’ll become another wonder a thousand years later,” wrote one.

Meanwhile, others wondered if the country couldn’t turn its efforts to imitating more than just historical sites.

“It would be really awesome if they could duplicate others’ sky,” wrote another, referring to the bad air pollution in China.

 

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The real deal ... Hallstatt in Austria

Replica of the Austrian alpine town Hallstatt in Guangdong Province, China

 

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Le Corbusier's Chapelle de Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France.

Now a barbecue restaurant ... Ronchamp in Zhengzhou.

 

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European replica towns

 

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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then China's been sucking up to a lot of folks lately, this time in the form of a life-size knock-off of the famous 1/1-scale Gundam statue, located in Odaiba and Shizuoka.

The Middle Kingdom's version, which Chengdu Floral Land amusement park asserts is totally original, stands at a similar height to the Japanese original, though it's made from fabric stretched over a frame rather than steel-and-plastic.

Upon hearing (and seeing) the sight, Gundam copyright owner Sotsu shifted its lawyers into combat mode, it seems that the park's managers have backed down somewhat, covering their statue's head as they make some "final modifications".

Personally, I don't see why they're so mad. The Chinese statue looks absolutely different! It's orange!

 

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i dont understand why the hate?this is amazing.obviously these buildings werent here before china's econmic rise to power....these shows besides china's obssession with manufacturing and cheaper better faster,they have a appetite for culture and art....these buildings are works of art since obviously there isnt standard blueprints for them to reverse engineer and put into manufacture process....it takes skill and talent to make it look as authentic and as real as possible....

i dont get the jealousy,if i used my free time and build a mini replica of the istana and put it on youtube,people are going to praise me for my skill and talent so i dont get why the hate for China?

these adds vibracy and beauty to my country ill be proud if i had all these "replicas".

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Btw why can shit land call their film industry bollywood and none of you are offended? It's copied off hollywood.

 

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Btw why can shit land call their film industry bollywood and none of you are offended? It's copied off hollywood.

are you one of the 20 000 computer censorship bureau of communist party of china? if so, good for you for making a decent living.
If you are a fanboy of PRC for free, i will say you are very cheap.

 

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Boxx Electric Scooter – Looks as Comfortable
Another entry in the electric scooter market is the Boxx scooter. In its “upgrade” model , the scooter charges in 1 hour via a standard domestic plug and gives you up to 80 miles (129kms) travel. Weighing 120 lbs (55 kg) with all aluminium construction the unit comes standard with ABS, traction control, drive by wire, oversized all LED dot lighting system, and two useful cargo holds. Options include a heated seat and extra battery pack to double your distance.

Though they claim “superior comfort ergonomics”, it certainly doesn’t look that comfortable to me. So going 80 miles in one go might be a bit ambitious, and I’m guessing a pillion is completely out of the question. I suspect you won’t be getting your knee down on that sweeping corner either

Customisable at Boxx the price starts at $3995.

He Liang rides his homemade suitcase vehicle along a street in Changsha, Hunan province, China, on May 28, 2014. He spent 10 years modifying the suitcase into a motor-driven vehicle. The suitcase has a top speed of up to 20km/h and the power capacity to travel up to 50-60km after one charge, according to local media.