The first part of your post is certainly legit but I think the building looks kind of cool...

yeah, a few more yuan spent on air cleanup might have made the ball and the bull look even shinier.

Well, to me the building looks ridiculous. And I wonder if it will really be worth it and make its money back. But I am no expert on that region so we shall see.

The big Tesla ball on top should make lightening storms more interesting. The architecture is unique, but it does look out of place dwarfing everything else.

Where's Donald Trump? He's got to have had something to do with this. You can tell by the huge bull....

Like everything in China, this is yet another FAKE

It will make a nice target for Al Qaeda . . .

goldenone i am courious about this statement.

the western world's money at work folks...just keep buying their junk!

With the Political support and the trade agreements and market penetration China now enjoys here in the USA where do you suggest we buy from?

After that answer how do we buy from companies that are not CHINA when they do not have the market penetration China does?

so a SOLID tonne of gold is all of 15 INCHES in diameter... or half the size of an NCAA basketball

How big is 51,760 cubic centimeters? The dimensions of a cube are easy to find using a calculator: The cube root of 51,760 is 37.26, so you'd have a 37.26-cm cube. That's just under 15 inches on each side - yep, a 15-inch cube of gold weighs a ton. Yikes!

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_big_is_1_ton_of_gold#ixzz1aOjdRHnk

Anyone who cry’s sour grapes should see that this country has out lined many large scale goals for its population, has embraced capitalism, and has a working future.

Our US Government has no current goal except to export a Middle Eastern Welfare system to Muslims who do not want it.

These Welfare Wars have sucked all the working capital out of the United States, and Europe, and there is nothing left to repair our rotting infrastructure much less build a bold new city as this.

The Chinese do not tangle themselves in other countries affaires, and unless you’re getting to close to their boarder they keep their minds on their own business while they play hard ball in the capitalist arenas.

This is what it looks like when your government is about building a future.

Chinese leaders are still motivated by shame if they screw up, if our leaders were motivated by any of the shameful measures implemented for the last 12 years the offices of congress and the presidency would be empty for a few aids left to mop up.

Stop the envy, and let us get busy with cleaning our house.

You sir are ill informed. China is invested in others affairs on every continent on this planet. They are the second largest seller of weapons in the world. They don't invest in war abroad out of some benign concern to merely profit from items used to fight. No, like us, it is the fighting itself that they are encouraging and supporting so as to ensure access to resources abroad. Large hegemonic countries are defined by their need to influence and manipulate to their furthest extent.

It's the DAILY PLANET from Superman.

Jason could you name one country that the Chinese have attacked, or participated in attacking since the Vietnam war?

imrightnotyou,

I love your moniker. The answer to your question is India. The East Indies are more productive, cheaper, and more Capitalistic (no small thanks to the British influence) than the PRC. India will become the rising star of the 21st Century as its economy flourishes. Hindi will surpass Christianity and Islam as the new moral order. Tanned skin will be the new "In". The Nehru jacket will make its comeback in the West.

LME, Hong Kong, Tibet, The US...

Jason you are simply “Crying Sour Grapes”, do you understand crying sour grapes?

Investing, selling products … weather weapons or toys for children are all a part of the capitalism that we of the USA champion through out the world.

The Chinese are doing well because they work together, and play hardball with their trading partners.

The Greedy rich in the USA are more than willing to export jobs, intellectual property, and materials to the Chinese for them to build and send back into our markets for sale.

So our Greedy rich are doing even better than the people in this Chinese city, it’s the rest of the 99% of the people here in the USA and our infrastructure who are not.

Our greedy leaders are enabling the Chinese to do this well, and if the Chinese were stupid enough to send us all their manufacturing jobs, administration works, and intellectual property we in the US would be much better off than we are.

But the Chinese are not stupid, and our Business and Political leaders are greedy enough to give them our economy on a platter.

And CYBER attacks, don't forget the CYBER attacks. And themselves, don't forget Tinneman Square where the Chinese army used their people to grease the treads of their tanks.

That's it folks, the big Tesla ball on top of that building means that the Chinese finally figured out how to deliver free electricity all around the globe and bring down the western capitalist countries to their knees! NOT! :-)

Oy vey, Moses, where art thou? And we thought the Jews are the only people capable of melting gold into a shape of a golden calf, according to Bible? The Chinese seem to be trying to prove to the whole world that they can outdo all others, even when it comes to greed and vanity, or be just as capable. The only thing is, this time around, who will be the chosen one of their tribe to come down from a mountain carrying the word of God etched into an iTablet commanding them and telling them how to live and behave? That will be the day!

Your eBay buyer dollars at work.

You guys are all missing the point here. Who cares about their pollution or the way the building looks?? It's not even important to this story. What I see here, is the fact that China is still doing big great things and were not. We need to start thinking big again. That's what made us great. When we were doing great things like this, other countries were on the outside looking in and hating on us as well. But we didn't mind because we were on the inside looking out. We need to get serious about where were going and what kind of country were going to be, otherwise we will consistently see everyone else doing big things and we'll be left out in the cold.

Robin Steele: LME, Hong Kong, Tibet, The US...

Hardball negotiations for sure, but Sour Grapes.

A Veteren ..And CYBER attacks, don't forget the CYBER attacks. And themselves, don't forget Tinneman Square where the Chinese army used their people to grease the treads of their tanks.

Maybe cyber attacks by hackers … expensive but no bullets fired or troops involved.

The miracle of Tiananmen Square was that the Chinese army did not grease the treads of their tanks with blood, and this was the turning point were the Chinese rejoined the rest of the world. The massacre took place outside of the Square in the country, in their country … If you want to play this card let us not forget the Dead students at Ohio State University in the 1960's who were protesting the Vietnam war.

I am also a veteran.

I am not Pro Chinese, I am looking at what they have been able to accomplish because my Business leaders and Political leaders are soulless greedy screw ups who have given our economy to the Chinese for pieces of silver.

But I will not cry sour grapes because they are winning at our game.

This monstrosity is completely at odds with the rest of it's surroundings. I guess the architecture itself is a matter of taste. I do not particularly like the looks of the building but other may. Regardless it most definitely does not fit in with the surroundings. The gold bull is a ridiculous display of waste and excess. Imagine the number of people in China that could have been fed with the money spent on that bull. They spend a fortune on this display and pay the workers who built the tower slave wages. Yes, China has definitely stepped away from communism and adopted the absolute worst aspects of capitalism. I also share the article's confusion as to where the people are supposed to come from to fill this hotel. It does not look like there is much in this village to attract people to a high class hotel like this. They will likely be bankrupt in a very short period of time and this tower will end up an abandoned eyesore.

The future of this pollution-drowned monstrosity of waste?? Check out

The Not-So-Great Mall of China: Welcome to the world's largest (and loneliest)
shopping centre

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223747/Ghost-mall-The-worlds-largest-loneliest-shopping-centre.html#ixzz1aP72YLZx

I wonder how long it will be before Al-Qaeda knocks it down.

I don't see where in the article they claim the bull is made of solid gold, i'm fairly certain is it merely gold plated.

Not all that important whether it is an eyesore or not or how much it costs. I wonder how earthquake proof it is.

mm209, or it may indeed be pure gold, but not solidly cast, "pure" of course being a relative term in the measurement of gold, with 14 karat, 18 karat, and actually pure 24 karat metal all being referred to as "gold". In other words, what ever purity level the gold may be (lets assume 18 karat), the statue may be made completely of this metal, but it is certainly cast with a large hollow space inside, as any large bronze or steel statue would be.

We have given china the bullets with which to kill the USA, and they are firing them at us with a machine gun. Our leaders and businesses have spit in the face of the 100,000 americans who died to protect us against communism in viet nam, korea, panama, and afghanistan. These miscreant businesses whose passion for killing unions, and making profit at any cost, have brought the USA to its knees. We ought to be throwing the Hedge fund owners from the tops of their manhattan townhouses into the gutter below where they belong after raping the financial system and putting America in hoc to Communist China. If we dont string up these killers and treasonous murderers of the American Dream, then we deserve our fate. The Bankers, investment banks, and hedge funds, who take the richest peoples fortunes and multiply them many fold by stealing the money from the average investor, are the villains greater than Osama Bin Laden ever was. Bin Laden killed a few thousand people, but the Banks have laid waste to tens of millions of lives and they deserve exactly what Bin Laden got. We need to track down the thieves and hang them over the lions den until the cough up every penny. The Fox Farce of Rupert Murdoch is the propaganda wing of the republican party, brainwashing the people into thinking that the poor are whats ruining america. Thats no different than what they do in Bangladesh when they stone a woman who has been raped. We cringe at that, but what about whats happening right here. We need justice. The blood of Abel cries out to me, from the murderous Cains of the Republican Hypocrites who cry, am I my brothers keeper? you are damn right you are. The keeper of your brother. The Navy Seals never leave a man behind, but the Republicans look at the fallen, and curse them for costing them time, money and feeling. What a bunch of filthy rats.

Everyone had to walk around blindfolded.. it was just easier that way.

"In Communist China.. Skyscraper unveils YOU". (anyone remember Yakov Smirnoff?)

hey is build first and then think later. Is called status, no tourist attraction just too much money so why not build a white elephant.

"If you build it they will come"

Actually, as much as we like to hate on china, This building could never be built here today for that price. As for the Bull, it's an attraction, and its cost works out to its weight. It is like displaying money, and could be melted and remonitized at any time. But I don't think the architect saw the Ten Commandments. Tiny pockets of China are flush with cash, even so half their factories are already closed. Capitalism is in it's death throws. The rich are going to live it up as long as they can. Then they will destroy our society with their greed.

Great observations Robin - With little or no value placed on "value" in light of the rest of the world's largest economies struggling against the currents of the presently near-catastrophic economic outlooks, this building is a monstorous allegory pointing to China's socio-economic hypocrisy. (Not to mention the currency swindling that China perpetrates with these abominable Western "free-trade" treaties.) It would be interesting to discover how many workers were injured or killed in it's contruction; what wages were earned by the laborers; what it's owner(s) earn(s); and what is it's actual market value in the hovel where it was constructed. Quite a polluted, bleak and Frankenstinian setting to say the least. All peoples of the Communist-Capitalist system should be duly impresssed with this example. Better fiction could never be created in light of the facts. Wow.

Actually, not into hating... PERIOD. Enough already! I am into identifying what's broken (which has been done adnauseum) and moving on to seeking out solutions!

Revolution?..when every citizen has 250K in the bank and universal health care?

i think your "vision" is cloudy

sounds like America of old...THANK YOU GOP/BIG CORPORATIONS for making the Chinese realize the American dream

Dan you can't tell the blind to see, even though they can and do add the math, rigid Ideology wins in the end. It's about identity for a large group of the populous just belonging to something is what is important even if it means promoting against my self interest as in this case, sending jobs overseas.

Might not turn out so good. Remember it's a bull in a China Shop.

Mac - now THAT was FUNNY. I laughed so hard I spit coffee all over my monitor. thanks for the Laugh of the Day. Peace.

i love wal-marts donuts.

Our way out of this mess isn't in congress, presidents, or any such thing. If we just simply buy online made in the USA items the rest will fall into place. Including the rich getting richer at our expense... We won't learn though.

Great slogan. Try buying only American-made products. I can guarantee it will be a short-lived experiment. People buy what they need when they need it, from where it is convenient to shop, at a price they can afford. That's it. I like to buy American when I can, but basically I buy what I can get. And usually, I shop at Walmart. Convenience and value.

It's probably hollow. but solid gold, yes.

@MisterEarl - Nice catch! You're right, one tonne of 24kt gold is roughly 14-inches^3. Either the Chinese propaganda machine was working overtime or else the author made a large mistake! I doubt that it is "solid" any metal. If it has a 'solid' 24kt "shell" it would be so easy to mess it up just by punching it. How funny would that be if their gold bull's face had a large fist imprint in it?

Typical of China - cheap knockoff that they claim to be the REAL THING! Just like the good fortune lucky genuine 14K gold rings they sell on eBay for 99 cents each, and STUPID AMERICANS line up to buy the junk.

And I sense a bit of a slap in the face of the USA - anyone notice the similarity between the Wall Street bull and this Chinese Water Buffalo..?

Solid gold my patootie.

Like a hollow chocolate Easter bunny. The way kids learn about getting ripped off!

14 karat, 18 karat or actually pure 24 karat gold? There's a big difference.

How do you know this? Have you been there? Grant it the Chinese aren't exactly trust worthy but I cannot imagine them lying about this. I can only imagine it can be verified. I mean c'mon Eruope has universal health care and free education don't know about all that money in the bank but hey who am I to argue.

To see how well they are doing, read the stories about the chinese ghost cities. Massive construction projects just sitting empty.

http://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/rise-of-the-chinese-ghost-town

David that's exactly what I'm talking about. I see a hotel reception in the photos above, which is likely just a room full of communist party members.

It's not that Universal healthcare and education isn't feasable for the U.S., it's that just mentioning it gets you branded as a communist or a socialist even if they are better ways to service more with less.

If you actually believe that there is a town in China that was recently nothing more than a poor farming village but now everyone in that town has a quarter of a million bucks sitting in a bank somewhere, you are hopelessly naive.

The vast majority of the cost of health care in this country is insurance, middlemen, corporate profits and price gouging. We need nationalized health care, but we need a legitimate government first.

Yup you're correct..$43.2 million cost that statue. Being on the 60th floor in that building figure it be hard to rob it at one ton.

What a waste of money for a country with millions starving and a shack to live in.

But then again we in the USA are just as bad!

You could just push it out the window.....

Come on over, Mr. T. Bill. Live here a few years. I've been here for six years. See the harsh realities, the immorality, the lack of civility and manners, the cheating, the shortcutting in nearly every human endeavor, the universal corruption at all levels. Anything advanced here has been copied from the West. See how so much of what you are "bullish" on is hype. You sound like a typical naive fool we expats joke about over beers.