There's a lot of gossip going down in Beijing at the moment about the mad health-cure magnate and professor, Zhang Lin and the mountain he built on top of a twenty six story apartment building.Obviously he knows someone who knows someone in the illegal planning department...
Yes, it's not what you know but who you know...
Oh look there, someone's put a mountain on top of that building...
Well I guess if the magnate couldn't go to the mountain, the mountain decided to come to the magnate...
I've never noticed it before, I suppose the smog's been hiding it...
I wouldn't know, last time I looked up in 1997,
a bird shat in my eye...
I think it's another case of someone making a mountain out of a molehill...
They're going to make him pull it down.
He won't have to pull it down, it'll fall down...
That's odd -even for China.
ReplyDeleteHealth Care right.Our Health Care owners put there money in Dubai.Not on top buildings.They pay of politicians.Just like the Chinese.
ReplyDeleteSad that someone would spend so much time, effort, labor, money and thought into doing that. Can you imagine the cost of heisting up all that especially if those are real boulders? Even if its just flour and water. And some people can't afford medicine or food.
ReplyDeleteWhatever it cost to put that ridiculous thing up there would have been better spent fixing stuff on the ground - or was the real intention to rise above the reality??
ReplyDeleteI kind of admire his nerve in putting something that fanciful up there, even though it's totally out of place and Disneylandish. What I don't think so much of is his willingness to inflict the construction noise and other related hassles on his neighbors just because he can. It strikes me as despotic behavior, as often seen in rich people who think they can insulate themselves from the environment that everyone else has to put up with. The funds would be better put to use improving the quality of life in Beijing. Speaking of which, it's clear from these photos that the Chinese have made a huge mistake by investing heavily in the automobile and its supporting infrastructure. Imitating the west's dumb choices ultimately will not serve them well.
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