Chinese Building Racetrack, Won’t Allow Gambling
Work has started on China’s first racetrack for horses since 1949, but there will be no gambling at it, the New China News Agency reported Wednesday.
The official news agency said the 7,000-seat, state-run park will open in a Peking suburb this fall, featuring horse races and polo games, horse and camel rides and riding clubs. Known as the Kublai Khan Equestrian Park, after an 11th-Century Mongolian emperor, the track will cost about $1.5 million to build, the agency said.
“It will be commercial and recreational and not for gambling,” the agency quoted the track’s manager, Zheng Fengrong, as saying.
The government outlaws gambling and recently cracked down on fund-raising lotteries because of what it called their corrupting influence and resemblance to pre-Communist Shanghai’s gambling racetracks.
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