[英语阅读]上海将建缩小版梦幻庄园

Chinese group planning Neverland ranch replica

流行天王迈克尔•杰克逊生前居住过的“梦幻庄园”缩小版将在一年后出现在上海崇明岛，国内粉丝可以到那里缅怀偶像。据悉，该项目投资1亿元，占地面积66.7万平方米，相当于加州原版梦幻庄园的十七分之一；策划方还将透过公开拍卖、私人购买等方式，取得杰克逊部分生前遗物，摆放在这个中国版的梦幻庄园内。

Police officers stand behind the closed gate of Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch in Los Olivos, California on July 01, 2009. A group of businesspeople are proposing to build a replica of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch on an island north of Shanghai as a tribute to the late singer, state media reported Thursday.

A group of businesspeople are proposing to build a replica of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch on an island north of Shanghai as a tribute to the late singer, Shanghai Daily reported Thursday.
The 100 million-yuan (14.6 million-dollar) replica would be the centrepiece of an agricultural sightseeing park where visitors will be able to sample rural cuisine and listen to Chinese folk music performances, the newspaper said.
"We believe the farmland, without the Neverland Ranch, would be too plain," Qiu Xuefan, a chamber of commerce representative for businesspeople from the eastern manufacturing city of Wenzhou told the newspaper.
"We think it would be a good idea to build a place for Chinese fans to remember him," Qiu was quoted as saying, adding inspiration for the replica came after Jackson's death last month.
The report did not specify which parts the group planned to recreate from Jackson's former ranch, which featured a zoo, an amusement park and cinema.
At 667,000 square metres (165 acres), the replica ranch would be one seventeenth the size of the original, the report said, adding the first phase of the project on Chongming Island could be completed as soon as next year.
Wu Pei, another member of the Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce, said the group had contacted people close to Jackson about buying memorabilia for the ranch.
She told the newspaper the group did not believe the Jackson estate would oppose the replica ranch.
"We believe Jackson's cultural relics belong to the whole world," she said. "We don't think there will be a problem with intellectual property rights."