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How To make Your Country Green!

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« on: February 13, 2009, 06:36:49 pm »

Why is a barren Chinese mountain being painted green?

SHANGHAI: Villagers in southwestern China are puzzled by a county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.

Workers who began spraying Laoshou mountain in August told villagers that they were doing so on orders of the county government but were not told why, media reports said Wednesday.

Some villagers guessed that officials of the surrounding county, Fumin, whose office building faces the mountain, were trying to change the area's feng shui — the ancient Chinese belief of harmonizing one's physical environment for maximum health and financial benefit.

Others speculated that it was an unusual attempt at "greening" the area in keeping with calls for more attention to environmental protection.

Photographs of the mountain showed the exposed rock covered in an artificial green looming over houses against a scrubby background.
The official Xinhua press agency estimated the cost of the paint job at 470,000 yuan, or $56,000, and quoted villagers as saying that if it had been spent on actual plants and trees, the money could have restored a far greater area of barren mountain.

Laoshou mountain was quarried for more than two decades but ordered shut recently following complaints about dust and noise from villagers.

Officials have also been trying to stem environmental damage in the surrounding province, Yunnan, where logging and development of mountain areas have been blamed for heavy floods down river.

A women who answered the phone at the Fumin County forestry department said they were unaware of reasons behind the paint job.

"This is an order from above. You should ask the leader from above. I don't have any information on this," said the woman, who like many Chinese officials, refused to give her name.
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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2009, 06:43:37 pm »

Those chinese can be fuckin' nutty sometimes  Undecided
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2009, 08:59:32 pm »

roflmao  that is so funny
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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2009, 09:05:00 pm »

just think how much they could save if they painted and new bridge across Auckland Harbour.
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2009, 09:33:33 pm »

Those chinese can be fuckin' nutty sometimes  Undecided


Yep....I can recall about 25-30 years ago when the Chinese government declared war on flies and had a kill flies day where they got the entire population to spend the day killing as many flies as they could. Bloody hilarious!!  Grin
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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2009, 06:16:29 am »

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Yep....I can recall about 25-30 years ago when the Chinese government declared war on flies and had a kill flies day where they got the entire population to spend the day killing as many flies as they could. Bloody hilarious!!  Grin

I heard about that TJ but I decided it was a have - I cant imagine that it was true  Shocked
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« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2009, 10:55:31 am »

It was big news at the time. Mind you, the Chinese used to do all sorts of nutty things in the name of the revolution back then.
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