'There is no need to go to France anymore!'

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Tianducheng, in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, has been built to look like Paris

Just like the French capital city (pictured), the Chinese knockoff town has an Eiffel Tower

• Residents of Tianducheng, in east China, gushed about the fake European town

• The £420mn development was built by a property group to house 10,000 people

• Its centre piece, a fake Eiffel Tower, is one-third the size of the original structure

• One resident said: 'After I came here, I really feel the authentic European flavour'

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While millions of Chinese people are making their way to Europe and America to see the outside world, many of them also enjoy visiting the fake Western-style towns within the country - to pretend to be abroad.

One of the most popular places as such is Tianducheng, an elaborate town in eastern China that is supposed to look like Paris.

Chinese people apparently love the £420 million French-style development so much as they gushed about its 'authentic' European atmosphere to a reporter from Pear Video. 

One of them, a resident, was quoted saying: 'After I came here, I feel there is no need to go to France anymore.'

While another person, also a resident, told the reporter: 'Maybe I won't be able to go to Paris, but after I came here and personally experienced the atmosphere, I really feel the authentic European flavour.'

A third resident, who claimed to have lived there for 10 years, said many tourists would come to visit the town during the weekend. 

The Eiffel Tower in Tianducheng, measuring 108 metres (354 feet) tall, is illuminated at night

The picture taken from Montparnasse shows the Eiffel Tower in Paris during sunset

One Tianducheng resident expressed her love for the town: 'There is no need to go to France'

Another person said: 'After I came here, I really feel the authentic European flavour'

Situated near cosmopolitan Hangzhou, Tianducheng was built about 15 years ago by a property group. 

The 164-acre area, dubbed 'Paris of the East', is designed to house 10,000 people in French neoclassical-style buildings.

All buildings are centred around a mini Eiffel Tower, the town's crowned jewel.

The Tianducheng Eiffel Tower is about one-third the size of the original 324-metre-tall (1,063-foot-tall) landmark in Paris, which was constructed for the 1889 World Expo.

Situated near cosmopolitan Hangzhou, Tianducheng was built about 15 years ago

The 164-acre area is designed to house 10,000 people in French neoclassical-style buildings

The French capital is by no means the only city which has got a wacky Chinese cousin.

In Shanghai, which is about two hours from Tianducheng by car, there are an English town, a German town, an Italian town and a Dutch town. 

In Huizhou, Guangdong, the authority has built an exact clone of Hallstatt, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Austria.

The city of Fuzhou city in Jiangxi province is planning to build a copy of Shakespeare's hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon, to express their love for the English writer.

Moreover, a new district, inspired by the old town of Hannover in Germany, has been built in the city of Changde in Hunan Province.

Many of these developments, however, later became 'ghost towns' - a sign of China's real estate bubble. 

Source: Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5340579/Chinese-people-love-fake-Paris-town.html

English-style Thames Town (pictured) was built on the outskirts of Shanghai 20 years ago

Thames Town has the most British elements, such as the red phone box in London (pictured)

A £330mn town styled after Hannover (pictured) was unveiled in China's Changde in 2016

The German town in Changde has been inspired by the historic centre of Hannover (pictured)

The blueprints of Sanweng town, which is supposed to be a copy of Shakespeare's hometown

Sanweng would have replicas of the landmarks in Stratford-upon-Avon in England (pictured)

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