Chinese developers are planning to flatten 700 mountains to make way for a new town in the north-west of the country.
... developers hope the cost and effort will be worth it, with the new metropolis potentially able to boost the region's GDP by £27bn by 2030.
The ambitious mountain-flattening is already underway, despite concerns over the effect it will have on the natural environment.
Lanzhou, home to 3.6 million people, already has the nation's worst air pollution and the region is notoriously arid, with water in scarce supply.
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