China cake millionaire at home in his six castles

[CHONGQING] As the greatest urbanisation drive in history swells China's cities with ranks of identikit apartment blocks, one culinary businessman is indulging his architectural appetite with a visual feast of extravagant, outlandish castles.

"I don't have any hobbies, except for planting trees and building castles," said Liu Chonghua, standing on a crenellated turret atop the largest of the six he has constructed.

Mr Liu, who made millions from feeding China's growing appetite for cakes and bread, now plans to make his home in the grey stone structure, whi…