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Foreign names of China projects under fire

Beijing says excessively grandiose or strange names will also face scrutiny

Published Thu, Mar 24, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    Hong Kong

    THERE is a Vancouver Forest in Beijing, a Thames Town in Shanghai and an Oriental Yosemite in Dalian, China.

    China's suburbs have been filling up lately with housing developments whose names and architectural styles are meant to evoke the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, anywhere but China. And the authorities don't like it.

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