Palinurus
The Living Force
From this link (Dutch only): _http://www.depers.nl/opmerkelijk/575449/Chinezen-kopieren-dorp.html
Bing translation (modified slightly for better understanding):
To the dismay of the inhabitants, a complete Austrian village will be re-created in a luxurious area of Guangdong in China. For months on end architectural spies appear to have recorded and noted every stone in the village of Hallstatt.
"Would they have been permitted this at all?'', ask residents wondering in the newspaper Krone Zeitung Wednesday. "That the Chinese copy cars and machines, so much we knew. But whole villages? ''
The picturesque village of Hallstatt, with 900 inhabitants, is on the Unesco list of world heritage.The beautiful homes and hotels are located on a lake and attract many tourists. Some photographing Chinese ' tourists ' apparently had other intentions on the side.
The detailed Chinese construction drawings were by chance discovered by inhabitant Monika Wenger. She leads the hotel Grüner Baum, which, like for example, the Church and the market square is copied. "My feeling says that they should at least have asked the owners to seek their cooperation. ''
The hotel manager fears that Chinese tourists will stay away from the original Hallstatt, once the copy in Guangdong is ready. The Chinese obviously want to start building just this year. The Austrian houses will then serve as a restaurant and a shopping centre.
Mayor Alexander Scheutz remembers that he recently had received a request to receive a group of Chinese in July. That request had not yet revealed for whatever project it was going to be about. ,, In the announcement it said it was about an idea to start a cultural exchange '', said the Mayor.
Bing translation (modified slightly for better understanding):
To the dismay of the inhabitants, a complete Austrian village will be re-created in a luxurious area of Guangdong in China. For months on end architectural spies appear to have recorded and noted every stone in the village of Hallstatt.
"Would they have been permitted this at all?'', ask residents wondering in the newspaper Krone Zeitung Wednesday. "That the Chinese copy cars and machines, so much we knew. But whole villages? ''
The picturesque village of Hallstatt, with 900 inhabitants, is on the Unesco list of world heritage.The beautiful homes and hotels are located on a lake and attract many tourists. Some photographing Chinese ' tourists ' apparently had other intentions on the side.
The detailed Chinese construction drawings were by chance discovered by inhabitant Monika Wenger. She leads the hotel Grüner Baum, which, like for example, the Church and the market square is copied. "My feeling says that they should at least have asked the owners to seek their cooperation. ''
The hotel manager fears that Chinese tourists will stay away from the original Hallstatt, once the copy in Guangdong is ready. The Chinese obviously want to start building just this year. The Austrian houses will then serve as a restaurant and a shopping centre.
Mayor Alexander Scheutz remembers that he recently had received a request to receive a group of Chinese in July. That request had not yet revealed for whatever project it was going to be about. ,, In the announcement it said it was about an idea to start a cultural exchange '', said the Mayor.
