China: Tens of thousands of ruins 'disappear'
Found on CNet News on Friday, 30 December 2011
China says about 44,000 ancient ruins, temples and other cultural sites have disappeared.
Explaining the results, an official quoted by Chinese state media said many such sites were unprotected and had been demolished to make way for construction projects.
In the worst-affected region, Shaanxi province, which is the home of the terracotta warriors, the statistics indicate that more than 3,500 cultural sites have vanished.
China does not care about its people, so it's not a big surprise that they don't care about their past either. Most of those ruins were most likely not visited by tourists, so no money was ever made there. The country has a long history, but under its current regime, this history gets eradicated for the sake of capitalism. Amazing how well the communists have embraced their enemy.