Chinese Chairman Mao Ze Dong Giant Statue Demolished

by the Guardian | International

He might have been the founding father of China, but the Mao Ze-Dong Statue, that made headlines this week, towering above everything else on an empty field, lasted only one week. Today, it has been demolished.

A private initiative, it was said to have been financed from contributions by local business men, but apparently without government permission.

According to AFP, the "gargantuan gold-painted statue of Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong has suddenly been demolished, apparently for lacking government approval."

It cost builders three million yuan (£315,000).