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Village in the Sky: China’s Richest Village Now has its Own Skyscraper

Rising up from the flat plains around it like an enormous, triple-hulled rocket and topped with what can only be described as a giant gold golf ball, Huaxi’s 1,076 ft-tall “New Village in the Sky” officially opened on October 8, making Huaxi, about an hour’s drive from Shanghai, the only rural village in the world with its own skyscraper.

But then Huaxi is no ordinary village — it is an extraordinary example of China’s schizophrenic blend of communism and capitalism: a centrally-planned utopia where collectivism has made everyone not just equal, but rich as well.

The village’s 4.5 billion dollars of assets and investments, which include a one-ton solid-gold water buffalo and two shiny new helicopters, are publicly-owned and each year, one-fifth of the village’s post-tax profits are shared out in an annual bonus.

High-res A woman looks at an egg-​​shaped sculp­ture made of dis­pos­able wooden chop­sticks on dis­play out­side a shop­ping mall in Bei­jing. The artist’s inten­tion is to make peo­ple aware that the world is frag­ile like an egg, and to encour­age them stop using dis­pos­able chop­sticks. (Andy Wong/​Associated Press)

A woman looks at an egg-​​shaped sculp­ture made of dis­pos­able wooden chop­sticks on dis­play out­side a shop­ping mall in Bei­jing. The artist’s inten­tion is to make peo­ple aware that the world is frag­ile like an egg, and to encour­age them stop using dis­pos­able chop­sticks. (Andy Wong/​Associated Press)

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Chinese zoo rehearses tiger escape using man dressed in furry costume.

If some of the staff who captured the beast don’t seem to be taking the safety drill at Chengdu Zoo seriously, then they can be forgiven.

For if you look very, very closely at these images, you’ll notice it isn’t a real tiger at all. Instead of letting a real big cat loose, managers thought it might be wiser to practise with a costumed escaper.

High-res When the owner of this structure asked for a music building, the architect took him quite literally. Located in Huainan City, An Hui Province, China, the Piano House was built by the local government to draw interest to the newly developed area. It’s also a place where music students from the local college can practice and perform. A gorgeous transparent violin is attached to the piano building, which features a staircase that connects the two giant instruments. via [Let Me Be Inspired]

When the owner of this structure asked for a music building, the architect took him quite literally. Located in Huainan City, An Hui Province, China, the Piano House was built by the local government to draw interest to the newly developed area. It’s also a place where music students from the local college can practice and perform. A gorgeous transparent violin is attached to the piano building, which features a staircase that connects the two giant instruments.

via [Let Me Be Inspired]

High-res Jilted bride saved in suicide drama A jilted bride-to-be tried to throw herself from a seven-storey building in China after her boyfriend called off their wedding. The 22-year-old college student, named only as Miss Li, put on her wedding gown before stepping through the window of the residential building in Changchun, eastern China. Li threatened to jump saying she could not live with the fact that her fiance had left her and married another woman just days before their wedding, local television said. But before she plunged to almost certain death, care worker Guo Zhongfan caught her by the neck and held her as others rushed to help pull her to safety, MSNBC reported.

Jilted bride saved in suicide drama


A jilted bride-to-be tried to throw herself from a seven-storey building in China after her boyfriend called off their wedding.

The 22-year-old college student, named only as Miss Li, put on her wedding gown before stepping through the window of the residential building in Changchun, eastern China. Li threatened to jump saying she could not live with the fact that her fiance had left her and married another woman just days before their wedding, local television said.

But before she plunged to almost certain death, care worker Guo Zhongfan caught her by the neck and held her as others rushed to help pull her to safety, MSNBC reported.