Historical values fade under fakes

Chairman Mao Zedong would be alarmed if he knew how his countrymen were interpreting some of his words.

In 1964 Mao came up with the principle of making the past serve the present and foreign things serve China.

So instead of conserving historical buildings local governments prefer to tear down the not-so-perfect and the not-so-new buildings and construct replica historical buildings that fit their modern needs and which are supposed to appeal to tourists.