
“From the top of a hillside in Pinggu village, an hour’s drive from central Beijing, the future of China’s music industry doesn’t look like much – just a vista of Mao-era farmhouses and parched cabbage fields. Yet Beijing officials have announced plans to spend more than 10 years and £1.4bn turning the area into the ‘China Music Valley’, a sprawling compound that will be home to recording studios, instrument makers, music schools, five-star hotels and an arena in the shape of a peach.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/26/beijing-spends-a-billion-to-get-chinas-music-industry-rocking/
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