Poor county in NW China in hot water for building 'luxury' school shortly after it had been lifted out of poverty

[PeacefulWar]

阳澄湖小学, It took 110 million in 2010. It's just an elementary school.
Several luxury schools in Shanghai

盘点上海赫赫有名的几所贵族学校，一般人还真上不起

盘点上海赫赫有名的几所贵族学校，一般人还真上不起

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It cost only 1/7 and seems the education facilities and equipments cost the most unlike this one.

Anyway, one of the poorest town in China spend more than 700 millions to build a middle school, nothing can be justified here.
And we know there are huge corruptions involved in this project.
Let's wait for the investigation results.

 

[lcloo]

If there is corruption involved, the chances of the building standard being that of tofu engineering grade could be high. That could endanger the students should an earthquake strike in future, like in 2008 Wenchuan。

 

[zectech]

Still need to pay for maintenance.

Turn the pools into outdoor swimming pools with chlorinated water. Teach the middle schoolers to swim.

 

[S10]

LOL so they wasted the money on building a luxury site, then made even more money demolishing it. Better investigate the relationship between local officials and construction contractors.

For what it's worth, at least they unwisely spent it on a school rather than a town hall.