di 05 jan 2016, 13:19

Bizarre golden statue of Mao

Beijing –

The Great Chinese helmsman Mao in their own country and for many is still immensely popular. That to show the immense golden statue that a few rich Chinese businessmen currently drop out in the countryside.

Photo: REUTERS

The anonymous donors are counted according to Chinese state media, nearly half a million dollars down for the 37-metre-high gold-painted statue. The huge Mao overlooks the countryside of the province of Henan, in central China. A striking detail is calculated, this area was the hardest hit by the famine that followed Mao’s disastrous economic reforms of the Great Leap Forward. It came to tens of millions of Chinese life.