Posted on 03/09/2002 10:01:29 AM PST by ASaneGuy
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A brochure touts the housing development as "Pure American." Welcome to Orange County. No, not that Orange County. This is Orange County, China. An hour's drive from the heart of Beijing, a Chinese developer, working with a Newport Beach architect and Orange County designers, is capitalizing on what may become the world's largest housing market in an era of rapid economic reform in China. ... At a cost of nearly $60 million, China's Orange County is taking root a few miles from the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. When completed, the collection of $250,000 townhomes and million-dollar-plus luxury estates ...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
You'll notice communsists had nothing to do with it.
If they get out of the way a lot of great things can happen in China.
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