The Chinese Shame of Olympic Saga Continues: The "Creativity" of Chinese Falsification --
Manufactured scenery for Olympics

Manufactured scenery for Olympics
The Associated Press
Published: July 27, 2008

BEIJING: Polluted Beijing is usually shrouded in gray, so for the Olympics, Beijing city officials
have tried to add some color.

They have taken a dusty metropolis with thousands of cranes hovering over construction sites and
sought to create an idealized Beijing. Enormous murals in shades of blue and green, many showing off
towering palm trees and blue skies, rise like Hollywood backdrops to hide the reality of the Chinese
capital.

Beijing Olympics emblems are often used to hide unfinished construction projects. Some of the
make-believe scenes are pastoral, showing a path wandering through a tangle of trees, or rolling
green hills that suggest a quaint village lies just out of view. The murals typically hide a bare
concrete wall, an ugly hole in the ground or a building site.

Feel like a game of golf? One mural guides the urban viewer down a lush, green fairway complete with
sand bunkers.

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