This article is from WeChat official account: Vista to see the world (ID: vistaweek) , Author: Leaf orange
According to incomplete statistics, 80% of Chinese traveling abroad have strayed into the “world’s largest”, “Asia’s highest” and “China’s No. 1” man-made attractions:
Holding the ticket stub enough to cover two autumn fat meals in his hand, looking at the huge architectural sculpture in front of him, his sanity was lost.
What’s more common is that many man-made attractions have investments in the hundreds of millions, and most of them are in small cities and counties that are not well-known, and there is no end to the question of whether they are abusing financial funds.
It’s no wonder that netizens were particularly puzzled and angry when it was revealed that “the largest Miao goddess statue was built with 86 million yuan” in Jianhe County, Guizhou Province, which had only been lifted out of poverty last year.
Reminiscent of the 1.5 billion “largest in the universe” Guan Gong statue in Jingzhou, and the 40 billion unfinished scenic spot in Dushan County… People can’t help but suspect that this is another “huge waste attraction”.
The official response later stated that the sculpture was built by a travel investment company through bank financing and self-financing, and no poverty alleviation funds were used.
This makes people’s discussion focus on another topic–
“Why Chinese cities,Always obsessed with spending huge sums of money to build these waste attractions? “
“Is this kind of attraction really seen?”
No one may know how many cities have spent huge sums of money to build scenic spots that no one cares about.
They seem to be cleverly scattered throughout the provinces. When it comes to “man-made rotten scenic spots”, almost everyone can think of those in the province.
Hebei people will never ignore the sphinx that was complained by Egypt. It is located in the outskirts of the New Great Wall International Film and Television City. It is said that there is a “Royal Palace” hidden inside the statue.
And it even has other brothers and sisters, each in the “Great Wall Dream World Tourism Cultural and Creative Park” in Chuzhou, Anhui and Lanzhou New District.
In Chuzhou’s Creative Park, the “Temple of Athens” and “Qing Qing Palace” were also copied.
Clearly under the brand of “creative”, the most proficient player is Ctrl C + Ctrl V.
In the same park, there is another double building of the Temple of Heaven and White Palace, which occasionally shows up in the “doubtful scenic spots”.
The studio, which was supposed to emulate Hengdian, started construction in 2013. Although it has not yet been completed, many facilities have been damaged first.
“White marble steps” has begun to blacken
People in Hubei might think of the Guan Gong statue in Jingzhou named “the highest in the universe” by CCTV a week ago. The Guan Gong statue alone cost 172.9 million and the entire Guan Gongyi Park invested 1.5 billion.
After four years of opening for business, the operation of Guan Gongyi Garden is very unsatisfactory, with a total income of less than 13 million.
Obviously, the title of “Universe” did not save Guan Gong who was lost in Jingzhou.
If you want to use one word to evaluate these attractions, I think you must not escape the word “doubt.”
“These scenic spots won’t be popular at first sight” “This plan is unreasonable at first sight” “Why do you need to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build this thing?”
Obviously, these “City Doubt Awards” were originally built for “tourism development”, but they weren’t really developed, so we have to say something else.