China Cracks Down on ‘Big, Foreign, or Weird’ Place Names

China Cracks Down on ‘Big, Foreign, or Weird’ Place Names
A street cleaner passes by a replica of Eiffel Tower in Tianducheng, or “Sky Capital City,” a luxury real estate development in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on January 26, 2016. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
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The Chinese regime has begun another campaign to tighten its ideological grip on society, this time cracking down on buildings, streets, and roads across the country that have “big, foreign, or weird” names, for “undermining nationalistic culture.”

The campaign’s goal is to “facilitate social governance” and “allow socialist culture with Chinese characteristics to prosper,” as stated in a December 2018 document issued by Beijing.

Iris Tao
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Iris Tao is a Washington correspondent covering the White House for NTD. Prior to her work at the White House, she reported on U.S. politics and U.S.–China relations from NTD’s New York headquarters. She holds degrees in journalism and economics from Boston University.
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