Does anyone know where this picture is? It looks like this now.
A broad and flat street, but there is a sculpture lying across the intersection, with a scrapped fighter jet flying in the sky on it. The good avenue has been cut into a dead end. Want to report someone blocking the road to the government? No need, the government is blocking the road.
Recently, a post and picture titled "Gaoyi County leaders created the most awesome T-shaped road in history" became popular on the Internet. The poster said that this was because the street happened to be facing the gate of the Gaoyi County Government in Hebei Province, and the feng shui was not good. good.
The reporter interviewed and verified that the picture posted on the Internet was not a new picture. The road is still blocked, and in addition to the plane, there is an extra piece of grass on the road, which has become a garden. In an interview with the media more than half a year ago, the relevant local authorities responded that the road blockage had nothing to do with Feng Shui, and that the plan was to block the road and build a pedestrian street.
However, this nearly 40-meter-wide two-way six-lane Xincheng Street in Gaoyi County has been blocked for nearly three years since 2007, and there is no sign of a pedestrian street being built.
The scenery blocks the road, so why fly?
Xincheng Street is a main road running from north to south in Gaoyi County, the smallest county in Hebei Province. According to earlier reports, this road was built in 2000. It is 40 meters wide and has six lanes in both directions. The northernmost end connects with Fuqian Road, forming a T-shaped intersection. The street is directly opposite the office building of the county party committee and county government.
In recent days, some netizens posted "Gaoyi County leaders build the most awesome T-shaped road in history", describing the strange current situation of T-shaped intersections, "Everyone is building roads, but Gaoyi is blocking the road." There are many pictures attached to the post and detailed explanations. In the last 100 meters or so of this avenue near the county government, a monument-like base was erected, with a silver-gray scrapped fighter jet placed on it. Behind the aircraft was a crescent-shaped pool, occupying the entire road. Netizens claimed that this was because the county leaders invited Feng Shui masters for guidance.
The post and photos were very popular on the Internet. Many netizens agreed that the road blockage was due to Feng Shui, because they could not think of any other reason for blocking a 40-meter-wide street with airplanes.
The large flower bed on the motorway
The reporter verified that the photos on the Internet may have been taken in 2007 when the road blockage first started. After 2008, the road blockage was no longer limited to fighter jets and pools. , there is also an extra flower bed - the flower bed on the motorway.
The local media "Hebei Youth Daily" reported on the road blockage in Gaoyi in October 2008. At that time, there was already a three-story circular flower bed spread across the Xincheng Street motorway. The west side of this group of landscapes is connected to Fengcheng Square, which covers an area of more than 60 acres, and a road about 4 meters wide is left on the east side. "The flower bed represents the sun, and the crescent moon fountain represents the moon. We privately call them 'the sun and the moon shine together.'" said a local who took photos in the flower bed.
In May last year, "China Architecture News" also published a questioning report "There is a "Superstitious Project" in Gaoyi County, Hebei Province." A member of the public told reporters: "Since this plane was erected here, traffic has become inconvenient. Pedestrians and vehicles traveling from north to south are crowded on this narrow sidewalk, especially during the rush hour. There are students passing through after school, and buses from the county committee and county government passing by, which is very unsafe. At the same time, it also affects the facades along the street on the east side of the road, and most of them cannot be rented out.”
Is the road blocked for Feng Shui?
A retired veteran cadre who did not want to be named told the reporter of China Construction News: "This matter is not a secret here, everyone knows it. At that time, a county leader was ill. It was good for healing. The leader was superstitious and asked a Feng Shui master who was said to have a "half-immortal body" to give him some advice. The Feng Shui master said that because this road was facing the gate of the county committee and the county government, it was unlucky and for the sake of his health. With a bright career, this road to the county party committee and the county government must be blocked, so the county leaders built this project. What do you think this strange shape holding an airplane looks like? Does it represent promotion and wealth? "
Many citizens in Gaoyi County were interviewed by our reporter and said that this landscape was related to the county leaders’ belief in Feng Shui. Everyone speculated, but there was no evidence.
Official response: This was planned
Our reporter tried to get in touch with Cui Xinyuan, secretary of the county party committee. The person in the county party committee office couldn't explain the situation clearly and gave Secretary Cui the phone number of his secretary. The secretary said, "I just came here not long ago. I work as a cleaner. I am the life secretary." He even said he didn't know Cui's office phone number. Other government departments declined to comment.
In earlier reports, local functional departments gave explanations. A director of the Gaoyi County Construction Bureau Office who claimed to be surnamed Niu said: "The aircraft building was built according to the overall urban planning at that time, and there was no problem." "That road will be a pedestrian street in the future and will not be opened to traffic. Under the supervision of the county party committee and county government Two other roads are being opened on the east and west sides. "The reporter asked: "The road has been blocked for two years, and the other roads have not been opened. Doesn't this affect normal traffic? Is this also planned?" Director Niu: "It is being opened. This is our custom." But he declined to provide relevant planning documents.
Li Xianzhi, the deputy director of the bureau, denied the "Feng Shui theory" in an interview with "Hebei Youth Daily" and said that this group of landscapes "was planned last year and was subject to expert argumentation and superior approval. However, He did not explain the reasons for its construction, how to organize the demonstration and other relevant details.
What is the current situation of this road? Many local netizens confirmed that the road is still so blocked and they have never heard of the pedestrian street. .
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Cui Xinyuan, Secretary of the Gaoyi County Party Committee in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, loves greening and proposes afforestation and greening as a way to promote Gaoyi’s economic development. The project industry has made great efforts in greening every year, increasing the forest coverage rate in Gaoyi County from 1.8% in 2003 to 10.8% in 2008. It was elected as one of the top ten news figures in Hebei greening in 2008.
Cui Xinyuan is not only engaged in greening in the countryside, but also in Gaoyi County. He has launched a "tough battle for urban greening" with "street greening, local landscaping, demolition of walls to allow greening, and planting greenery everywhere." < /p>
According to local media reports, in 2009 Gaoyi County implemented a county street greening upgrade project and carried out a comprehensive and thorough greening transformation of major streets and squares such as Xincheng Street. “The most humane aspect of street greening transformation is the newly built In 2009, when a reporter from "Popular Science and Technology News" interviewed in Gaoyi, an insider revealed that the blockage on Xincheng Street was first caused by the release of airplanes, and later the moon pool and sun were built. In the spring of 2009, the garden continued to be expanded to the south. Now, the entire five to six hundred meters of the motorway at the north end of Xincheng Street has been turned into a garden.