Video: Made in China: a copy of the Austrian village of Hallstatt in the Middle Kingdom
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
No one will argue that the 21st century began under the motto: "Made in China". We are all so used to this cliché that it seems like the Chinese can do anything. We started with semi-basement sewing workshops and cheap equipment, continued with high technologies. The next step is the most ambitious step: from now on, the stamp "Made in China" can be put not only on goods, but also on entire villages. Recently, in southern China's Guangdong province, the village of Hallstatt is an exact copy of the Austrian.
The village was built with the support of the mining and metallurgical company China Minmetals Corporation, which has invested about $ 1 billion in this project. The construction of the Chinese Hallstatt began with the erection of an exact copy of the famous church tower, which is the "hallmark" of the Austrian village of the same name. After that, whole streets were built, which exactly coincided with the original. Of course, at the beginning of the work on the project, the Europeans expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that the Celestial Empire was suddenly engaged in "plagiarism", but over time it was decided that the newly built Gelstatt could become a good advertisement for attracting Chinese tourists to Austria.
Austrian Hallstatt is a favorite tourist destination. Here you can not only enjoy the beauty of the Alpine mountains, but also see many interesting sights. In addition to the church, the village is famous for its ossuary with painted skulls and salt mines.
A European delegation arrived at the opening ceremony of the Chinese Hallstatt. The Austrians were delighted with how they managed to create a village with a completely different culture in China. True, the Austrians themselves are in no hurry to visit the sister city, about 2,500 tourists come here a year. Most Chinese, on the contrary, go to Europe to see the original town with their own eyes.
By the way, this is not the first experience of the Chinese in the field of "cloning" cities. Earlier on our website Culturology.ru we have already written about the English city Thames Town, which is built in Shanghai.
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