2024-05-01T19:13:02-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/145492332/giant-golden-mao-statue-in-china-demolished-after-criticism Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-01-11T11:11:00-05:00 >2016-01-18T02:04:42-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/bn/bnh62nxtmguc2w75.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Just two days after images of a giant gold-colored statue of Mao in the bare fields of Henan Province spread across the Internet, the statue was gone &mdash; torn down apparently on the orders of embarrassed local officials. [...] According to villagers and reports on online chat sites, the statue was the idea of a local businessman, Sun Qingxin ... &ldquo;He is crazy about Mao,&rdquo; said a villager who identified himself as Mr. Wang, a potato farmer. &ldquo;His factory is full of Maos.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><p>More news from China:</p><ul><li><a title="China to sustainably build 10 New York City's worth of space in the next decade" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/145119991/china-to-sustainably-build-10-new-york-city-s-worth-of-space-in-the-next-decade" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">China to sustainably build 10 New York City's worth of space in the next decade</a></li><li><a title="China hopes to improve its cities with newly released urban planning vision" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/144427543/china-hopes-to-improve-its-cities-with-newly-released-urban-planning-vision" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">China hopes to improve its cities with newly released urban planning vision</a></li><li><a title="China relaxes restrictions on who gets perks of urban public services" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/143363013/china-relaxes-restrictions-on-who-gets-perks-of-urban-public-services" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">China relaxes restrictions on who gets perks of urban public services</a></li><li><a title="Construction stalled on 'world's tallest building', so locals made its foundation into a fish farm" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/131871411/construction-stalled-on-world-s-tallest-building-so-locals-made-its-foundation-into-a-fish-farm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Construction stalled on 'world's tallest building', so locals made its foundation into a fish farm</a></li><li><a title="Chinese prefab company builds a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/126482891/chinese-prefab-company-builds-a-57-story-skyscraper-in-just-19-days" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chinese prefab company builds a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days</a></li></ul>