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How sometimes you want to visit Paris! But the long road, visas, borders, customs … But a resident of China to see famous city, no need to fly across the ocean to the far Europe. In the city of Tianducheng, there is both the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe and all other sights of the French capital, Chinese Tianducheng – an exact copy of the historical part of Paris /esoreiter.ru/. 
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In 2007, there was a construction boom in China. Great China, where everything accustomed to doing on a grand scale, not exchanged for construction separate objects, and built immediately entire cities. On the empty place megacities appeared with a future population of up to 1 million people. And this were not temporary buildings, but modern beautiful cities, under become any city in modern Europe. 
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The first-born were built in an ultra-modern style with an admixture of national color. But then the architects decided to move away from habitual practice and began to build settlements, copies. So the “Austrian village of Gelstatt” appeared in China, “English Thames Town “, fake Venice, fake Hollywood, and in the east countries in the province of Hangzhou was built “Chinese Paris.” 
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The city is not just built in the style of Paris, the location of the streets, buildings, monuments on the streets – everything exactly matches the original. The French claim that the identity is simply amazing. Strain your imagination a bit – and you can feel yourself in Paris. Only the Eiffel Tower is a little smaller – a third of the actual size (110 m), signs in Chinese, and “Parisians” – all entirely yellow-faced and narrow-eyed. And baffling little people “Paris”, which is completely unusual for the French city. 
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Although Tianducheng has everything you need for life: kindergartens, schools, clubs, banks and cafes, the city does not have problems with overpopulation experiencing. Of the planned 10,000 inhabitants, a little live in the city more than 2,000. The vast majority are retired military and the poor who have been provided with temporary housing. 
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But the city was planned as an elite, the price for 1 square. m was set at 4-6 thousand dollars. Rich Chinese however not rushed to buy apartments. Remoteness from large centers (to the nearest – Shanghai, 170 km), the lack of developed business infrastructure at such high prices pushed him away Chinese entrepreneurs. By 2014, 3% of housing and rented – 1%. Today, most strolling the streets Tianducheng people are tourists. Newlyweds love to visit the city, who are simply delighted with the opportunity to hold honey month in Paris. Thanks to these tourists, the city lives, paying the work of numerous utility workers supporting infrastructure “little Paris”, keeping it from destruction. City authorities Sure that Chinese Paris will soon be filled with people. Demographic scientists warn that if the situation does not change, years in 500, Lee will become the most common surname on Earth. So what if you want to look into the future and look at Paris 2514 of the year – welcome to Tianducheng!
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