Сhina will spend nearly $ 24 million to displace a gigantic bronze statue due to criticism

China starts removing the huge statue of the celebrated Guan Yu in Jingzhou city after solid feedback of the extend, nearby media report.

The workers as of late removed the head of the 58-meter-high statue on the orders of the country's government and started migrating it to a modern area eight kilometers absent. Presently the proprietor of the landmark, the state-owned Jingzhou Tourism Venture and Advancement Gather, will have to be spend 155 million yen ($ 23.9 million) to remove it.

The statue fetched more than 170 million yen ($ 26.3 million) to construct and was completed in 2016, with the desire of accomplishing the Guinness record. Be that as it may, the extend confronted cruel feedback from the specialists.

Last year, China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development claimed that the monument "spoiled the character and culture of Jingzhou as a historic city." In addition, the statue is currently in a region where it is denied to construct buildings of more than 24 meters in stature. However, it was revealed that the builders only applied for the corresponding permission to make the base of the monument: a museum in the shape of a ship. So, the building of the statue turned out to be illicit.

Guan Yu was a military legend of the Three Kingdoms period (220-280 Advertisement) of old China and is considered one of the most excellent warriors within the nation. Later, the general was killed and he was remembered until now.