进出口总额 英文缩写:Cultural treasures become playgrounds of the rich in China?

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Cultural treasures become playgrounds of the rich in China?

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The Forbidden City is not the only cultural heritage site to run a club reserved for rich people.


In the former imperial summer resort in Chengde , Hebei province, leaflets were obtained advertising a private club in what is now a state-protected cultural and tourist site, Xinhua reported yesterday.


The leaflets declared that the club was recruiting its first 100 members at a price of 200,000 yuan (HK$239,000) per person before its opening in the middle of next month.

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Although the Chengde cultural-relics-protection authorities were quick to say they had not approved distribution of the leaflets, the adverts assured would-be members of their access to reserved roads and restricted services over an area of 38,000 square metres.


The amenities included presidential suites, lavish banquets, and expensive wine and cigars.


Under the pretext of raising maintenance money, bureaucrats commissioned to look after such facilities often rent part or all of them to members of the upper class.


As most of the adverts target onlythe super-rich, the public is unaware that their cultural heritage has been used to generate income.


Internet forums recently exposed that another national cultural site in Nanjing , Jiangsu - the former presidential residence of the republican period, nicknamed May-ling Palace after Soong May-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek - is being used for private wedding banquets.


Scenic public areas have also been used in this manner. Last October, residents in Ningbo , Zhejiang province, complained that substantial areas of the Yuehu Lake site had been cordoned off for corporations and private clubs.


Revolutionary cemeteries have suffered similar fates. There have been reports on the internet about such cemeteries being sold for redevelopment in Henan , Hubei , Jiangsu , Shanghai and Chongqing . In 2008, People's Daily reported that a revolutionary cemetery in Luoyang , Henan province, had been used for commercial purposes for 15 years.