Chinese Government Spends Over $325,000,000 on a New Music Centre (No, That’s NOT a Typo)

August 5, 2014August 4, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment

Go big or go home. How do you write that understatement in Chinese characters?

Beijing, the local government in the city of Langfang and something called the Ovation Cultural Development have committed $324,000,000 USD to building a one million square-foot music theatre centre. Why? Because musical theatre does huge, huge, HUGE in China.

Details at Digital Music News. There’s also a big feature on the project at China News Service.

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