No More Billboards in Xi'an


	No More Billboards in Xi'an

Rebecca Ruiz

9-11-2008 2:10 PM

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Rebecca Ruiz says:

This from the blog of Intelligent Travel: the city of Xi'an has plans to remove billboards from the capital's walls. The move is part of a larger effort to restore Xi'an's heritage by controlling development and population growth.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e742b9c3-1383-4fe9-b6fe-4c1837001e79/F87A352D-BB7D-44B2-9575-319CCE502BC4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/09/billboards-gott.html" href="http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/09/billboards-gott.html" style="font-size: 11px;">intelligenttravel.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/09/billboards-gott.html">Some nice news out of China on the preservation front: The city of Xi'an has announced plans to remove all advertising billboards from within the historic capital's walls in order to eliminate "visual pollution." They'll be taking down over 190 current ads (with the exception of bus stops and some electronic screens) and banning others from this point forward. <EM><A href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/03/content_6993252.htm">China Daily</A></EM> reports:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/09/billboards-gott.html">The local government has ambitious plans to refurbish the area
within the ancient imperial city wall by building old-style streets,
commercial establishments and residential buildings in the area, He
Hongxing, director of Xi'an urban planning bureau, said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/09/billboards-gott.html">Xi'an is more than 3,000 years old and was the capital city of China for 13 dynasties, and most visitors venture there to take in the incredible terra-cotta warriors at the <A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/441">mausoleum of the first Qin emperor</A> (which you can get a virtual tour of <A href="http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/asia/china/army-of-terracotta/main-pit/sphere-quicktime.html">here</A>).</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F87A352D-BB7D-44B2-9575-319CCE502BC4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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