Dragonhead dreams

摘要

In China's central plain a big new city is being built. The towering half-finished buildings of its central business district encircle an artificial lake and an exhibition centre that will be one of China's biggest when it opens later this year. Plans are afoot for a hexagonal pyramid-shaped hotel that would be nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower. Broad highways are spreading across former farmland. But will the people come? Zhengdong New District is rising from what used to be a military airfield surrounded by fields, fishponds, factories and scrapyards east of Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province.