In China’s ongoing quest for superlatives, Dalian has built a replica of Venice at 5 billion RMB. The entire structure has 200 European-style castles, gondolas, and four kilometer long canals.
It is seen as a desperate attempt to attract more tourists to the area, probably of the domestic kind, as it is hard to imagine foreign tourists flocking to a half-deserted Chinese-built ‘Venice’. Unless the fake Venice comes with real gelato and pizza, of course.
The media has dubbed the project ‘the Venice of the East’, which is odd, since there are quite a few historical water towns in China that basically resemble the Venice of the east, didn’t cost 5 billion RMB, and are already popular tourist destinations (near Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Shanghai).
Source: Xinhua
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Keywords: Dalian 5 Billion RMB Venice Tourism
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It's collected more phlegm, bile, and urine in it's short existence than Venice has in it's 1580-something years.
Oct 31, 2014 20:54 Report Abuse
This is so wrong on so many levels I probably wouldn't be done listing them before the stuff starts falling apart in 3, 2, 1...
Oct 31, 2014 13:36 Report Abuse
Dalian has the policewomen in skin tight leathers. Why go there to look at a few fake canals when there are better things to look at?
Oct 31, 2014 10:05 Report Abuse
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