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China Just Toppled This 120-Foot Golden Statue of Chairman Mao
Its demise came courtesy of improper permitting and overwhelming government embarrassment.
Earlier this month, news outlets and Internet users the world over gawked and jeered at new images of a 120-foot golden statue of Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong, then under construction in an incongruously brown and frozen field.
But the glamorous statue is now gone before it was even finished. Local officials confirmed to Chinese media Friday that the Mao of gold is now just a pit in the Henan province’s Tongxu county.