A hiker posted a video showing the water flow of the fall was coming from a pipe built into the rock face.
  • Hiker finds pipe feeding China’s tallest waterfall, sparking social media controversy and investigation by local government officials.
  • Yuntai tourism park operators admit to using a pipe to enhance waterfall flow during dry season to maintain visitor satisfaction.
  • Social media users express mixed reactions, with some understanding the situation while others criticize the artificial enhancement of natural landscapes.
                • muix@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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                  5 months ago

                  By definition a communist society is stateless, moneyless, and classless. Non of which China has achieved.

                • Rinox@feddit.itEnglish
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                  5 months ago

                  China isn’t communist. China is a capitalist dictatorship with one man at the top, a few people taking decisions and raking in all the profits and everyone else wage slaving away. Tell me what it reminds you

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I think you mean more like China actually went and did the hard work to make a pipe version of nature because China actually gives a damn about elevated water unlike the USA where it’s all fascist gravity flow and evaporation.

      But by all means, go on about how China’s “suspiciously like a waterpark” or “harvesting organs from family pets and covering it up with United Airlines pet death stories”. Go on. I’ll wait.

        • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          … what the hell is a tankie?

          (no, I haven’t been here long, how could you tell?)

          Furthermore, why have I not heard this term anywhere outside lemmy?

      • Seasm0ke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Ive seen the same thing at waterfalls in state parks. Its probably super common around the world by now.

        Edit: Logging back in to Lemmy like Dang thats a lot of mad neoliberals confusing an inconvenient fact for defense of the CCP.

        • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Yeah. I’m trying to think of a tourist attraction with a small waterfall, that doesn’t do this.

          The park staff is typically pretty open about it.

          Small waterfalls are seasonal, and tourists are, well differently seasonal.

          But that’s nothing that a little cheap plumbing can’t fix.

          • Seasm0ke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Its not like there’s a garden hose at the other end lol. That would be more of a scandal but for real I was just at one last weekend and when I hiked to the top there was a road and a gutter system.

  • AppaYipYip@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    So I think the important thing here is how this waterfall is being explained to visitors. If it’s open information that the waterfall only flows naturally in certain months and is artifical in others and people still want to see it when it’s artificial that’s fine. However it seems this is being sold as a natural waterfall when it’s artifical part of year which is the problem.

    Bases on thr park’s comments, it seems the move to make it artifical part of the year stems from their lack of openness that it only flows naturally part of the year. In comparison, Yosemite National Park (US) has a whole web page explaining when the waterfalls flow and the peak months to see them. https://www.yosemite.com/yosemite-waterfalls-spring/?amp=1 In my opinion, his park should be more open about the natural flow months so visitors can choose when to visit.

  • pm_me_ur_thoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I don’t think it’s an issue of what they’ve done. I’m sure everyone makes a change to such tourist attractions to aid tourism or nature.

    What’s weird is that they lie about it. Anyone else would have issued a news article, even a local one, saying the rivers are dry and this is what we have done to save tourism/nature etc etc.

    These fucks blatantly hide the truth because it makes it look like everything is perfect. And they do a fine job of it. This country is one one of the finest built bullshit producing machine and it won’t change until someone at the top decides to have a change of heart.