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China builds replicas of British towns
Thursday August 09, 2012 06:01:42 PM,
IANS
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London: Real estate
developers in China are now copying Tudor buildings, cobbled
streets and even red telephone boxes and artificial rivers in an
attempt to recreate the British way of life.
Thames Town, about 30 km from Shanghai, opened in 2006 as a
replica of a small town in Britain, the Daily Mail reported.
The builders even created an artificial river to replicate the
Thames.
"I wanted the properties to look exactly the same as those in
Britain. I think English properties are very special," said James
Ho, head of one of the companies behind the development, Shanghai
Hengde Real Estate.
However, the development designed to house 10,000 people has not
proved to be popular.
Reports said the place only attracts tourists wishing to take
pictures of its British-style architecture.
In a similar attempt, an identical version of London's Tower
Bridge has been built in Suzhou city in the eastern Chinese
province of Jiangsu, while a replica of an Austrian village has
been built in the southern city of Huizhou.
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