The party secretary says he wants to turn the "city village" of Huaxi into a Shangri-la.

他表示自己想把华西村建设成香格里拉。

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The last time I visited Huaxi in 2005, it was building a cluster of giant pagodas, which then appeared outlandishly large compared to everything else in the village.

上次我去华西村还是2005年，当时他们正在修建一宝塔群。

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The newly-opened skyscraper in Huaxi Village, Jiangsu province, dwarfs the surrounding buildings

这座新落成的摩天楼位于江苏省华西村，它在周围的建筑中显得鹤立鸡群。

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Mr. Wu, who died of lung cancer at age 84 on Monday, responded to China's market overhauls in the early 1980s with a politically savvy strategy to charge up the economy of Huaxi, the village in eastern Jiangsu province that he headed as Communist Party secretary.

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My eyes are fairly popping out of my head even before we get to the theme park that Huaxi has built for the hordes of tourists who visit the village.

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"I was shocked, and everyone in the village is saddened by the news of his death, " said Wang Lijuan, a manager at the Huaxi Tourism Agency.

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