Deeper reform will make replicas history

A one-to-one replica of Sphinx, an Egyptian cultural heritage structure, in Shijiazhuang, capital of Northern China's Hebei province, was demolished recently after Egypt sought to file a second complaint against the structure with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

The replica in a film and television park was meant to help filming but it was built in 2014 without the authorization of Egypt. After Cairo filed a complaint with UNESCO in 2014 saying the park had breached world cultural heritage rules, the park owners separated the head from the body of the structure in 2016 to show they had dismantled it. But when the park secretly re-assembled the structure, Egypt sought to lodge a second complaint with UNESCO.

This time, the park has said the Sphinx replica will be modified into a fountain with a deer's head and a lion's body.