China Shopping Mall Paves Gold Bars Walkway

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China: Shopping Centre Paves Walk With Gold Bars

 

The streets have been paved with gold at a shopping centre in China where a walkway has been built using real 24-carat bars.

 

The walk at the indoor precinct in Yichang, in Hubei province, consists of 606 shiny yellow bricks, worth $32m (£20m) in total, the Chinanews.com website reports.

 

The bricks weigh 1kg (2.2lb) each, and are covered with a glass pane. The lavish attraction was created to celebrate the shopping centre's 18th anniversary - and to attract customers during the upcoming "Golden Week" national holiday, after which it'll be dismantled.

 

Shoppers have been eager to use the walkway, as it's apparently believed in China that walking on gold brings luck, according to the Shanghaiist blog.

 

Golden Week starts on 1 October - the day the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 - and lasts until 7 October. It's a popular time for Chinese people to travel, usually to visit relatives in other parts of the country.

 

Completed two days ago in a shopping mall in Yichang, Hubei, the golden walkway is comprised of 606 gold bricks and weighs in at approximately 606 kilograms. The expensive walkway was built in celebration of the shopping mall's 18th anniversary and as a publicity stunt to attract shoppers during the upcoming Golden Week.

 

By Lucy Wang

http://www.infowars.com/china-shopping-centre-paves-walk-with-gold-bars/

 

Hubei shopping mall paves walkway with gold bricks worth over 200 million RMB!

 

 

Forget what you've heard about the streets of Heaven, a shopping mall in Hubei has built a walkway with over 200 million RMB worth of gold bricks and Chinese shoppers are tripping over themselves to walk over the pricey real estate!

 

 

Estimated to cost over 200 million RMB, the golden walkway is said to be the most expensive tourist attraction in the history of that region.

 

 

Shoppers are encouraged to walk across the golden walkway. Common belief has it that walking on gold is an auspicious activity that will bring great luck and fortune.

 

The shopping mall is expected to disassemble the golden walkway at the conclusion of Golden Week.

 

http://shanghaiist.com/2014/09/22/hubei_shopping_mall_paves_walkway_w.php

 

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