Video: The richest village in China builds a skyscraper hotel
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Once upon a time in China everything villages were not just poor, but very poor, and even hunting for sparrows and attempts to pour metal in mini-blast furnaces did not help. And now one of Chinese villages became so richthat a 328-meter skyscraper hotel was erected there. The slogan "Let's raise the village" is in action!
Huaxi (we, not being Sinologists, will not dare to transcribe this name into Russian, so that something does not work out) has long been famous as the richest village in China. Just half a century ago, 1600 people lived here, at the very least, interrupted from rice to rice cakes. Huaxi is now a huge village, home to 50,000 people, and for every family, according to statistics, there is one house, two cars and $ 250,000 in the bank.
Rows of neat cottages evoke thoughts of Photoshop, they look so incredibly clean. And the culmination of the economic success of the Huaxi village has become a real skyscraper, built exactly to the 50th anniversary of the village.
At the same time, the 74-storey hotel put to shame the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the most beautiful skyscraper in New York, the Chrysler Building. The 328-meter building was erected in 4 years. This pleasure came at a cost rich village Huaxi 470 million dollars - however, as you understand, for such a "collective farm-billionaire" the gigantic sum did not turn out to be ruinous. Chinese officials solemnly cut the ribbon at the entrance to the skyscraper on October 8.
The hotel, built with money from the villagers, has 800 rooms, a chic exhibition hall, a rooftop swimming pool, beautiful gardens stretch between the buildings, and a golden calf stands in the main hall. Yes, a real golden calf weighing a ton! This detail completes the impression: a skyscraper is not so much an ordinary hotel as an architectural manifesto of the Chinese Communist Party: they say, imagine how rich the Celestial Empire is, even if skyscrapers are being built in its villages!
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