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Some things in China never fails to amaze me!

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2015-10-29 09:32 | CNTV | Editor: Mo Hong'e

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The development project, named "East Montage", covering over 400 thousand square meters, has cost a total of 8 billion yuan, or 1.26 billion, U.S. dollars. (Photo/Xinhua)

The development project, named "East Montage", covering over 400 thousand square meters, has cost a total of 8 billion yuan, or 1.26 billion, U.S. dollars.

With a canal, European-style buildings, and frescoes reminiscent of renaissance-era Italy, the developer, Dalian East District Corporation, not only aims to build commercial real estate, but also a to build a landmark for Dalian city itself.

Zhang Juan, a local resident queuing up for a ride on the gondola, says the East Montage has already attracted a significant crowd of tourists as of late October.

"This is a good thing. This is an opportunity for people who could not go abroad to enjoy the same scenery as that in foreign countries, and expand their vision to learn more about foreign customs and practices. This is really good."

Many tourists believe that east Montage has provided a pleasant blend of nature and classical occidental architecture.

According to Yan Wei, Vice General Manager of Dalian East, four kilometres of a Venetian-style canal have been constructed.

"We took architecture from Venice and France as blueprints. We channelled sea water to the 4-kilometre-long canal to create what is for China an unprecedented kingdom on the ocean and architectural development complex. Proudly, our East Montage project, since the start of its construction, has made room for the capacity of an urban culture with iconic buildings."

Yan said that the city is not a direct copy of a classical European city, but is a combination of western and local culture.

"Each building has its own prototype design. I'm not saying that we copied these designs, but we have integrated the maritime and regional cultures of Dalian together with its humanistic principles, and further expanding, innovating, and improving them. It combines the western and Dalian's features, integrating Dalian's ideals and maritime culture."

Most of the completed development in East Montage has already been sold, but plenty of the other unfinished buildings in the city are still up for sale.

Development projects such as East Montage are not uncommon across China. In 2007 Shanghai built its own "mini Paris" complete with a small scale Eiffel Tower, and a detailed building-by-building replica of an Austrian village was finished in southern Guangdong province in 2012.

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I cringe with embarrassment. But one day, China will wake up sick and ask what have they been doing and begin their own renaissance.

It beats Vegas with their pretentious "Paris" and "NYC" theme casinos.

 

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My kind of Halloween costume party.

 

[B.I.B.]

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Do you play dressing up dolls?. It seems the "English High Society" don't have a monopoly on "kinky" pastimes after all.

 

[AssassinsMace]

Is this a joke or real?

Jimmy Lai can claim she's his sister and it's definitely real... camera ready to record and all.

 

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Yes, ya read it right, fight over the last piece of fried chicken (drum stick).

A roommates' fight over fried chicken turned deadly Friday night in a west Houston apartment, police said.

Houston police found a Cuban male lying dead around 11:30 p.m. outside near the entrance to the Monte Carlo Apartment Homes on Lakewood Estates Drive.

Several witnesses saw the fight, which started between roommates over the last piece of homemade fried chicken, a drumstick. They went outside to fight over the chicken, and that's when one stabbed the other with a steak knife.

Four or five Cuban men live in the apartment, police said.

"There was a single drumstick in the pan," according to HPD Homicide Detective Fil Waters. "You can't script this stuff. It's someone getting killed over a piece of chicken. Pretty tragic."

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EXCLUSIVE: Europe braced for Russian INVASION as Putin masses troops on NATO borders

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No wonder it's exclusive.

 

[plawolf]

Yes, ya read it right, fight over the last piece of fried chicken (drum stick).

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That piece of chicken was probably just the straw that broke the camel's back.

For it to have gone so far, those two probably would have had issues for a while now, and this was just the thing that finally set everything off.

Stupid and senseless nonetheless.

 

[Skye_ZTZ_113]

I cringe with embarrassment. But one day, China will wake up sick and ask what have they been doing and begin their own renaissance.

All in good time Comrade, all in good time. Be patient

 

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Nuclear Weapon Transported In A Convoy Gets Rear Ended By Truck.

I don't know what's in the truck. But it must be something important to have that much protection. It turns out the most dangerous people to the convoy are themselves.

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

It's highly unlikely that that little bump or even a traffic accident would set off a incident. Actual detonation requires a set chain of events to take place and the bombs themselves are designed to survive accidents.