BEIJING — A state-owned drug firm in China has caused online outrage for allegedly building offices that appear to mimic France's Versailles palace, complete with gold-tinted walls and chandeliers.
Photos posted online purporting to be the offices of a subsidiary of the Harbin Pharmaceutical Group show meeting rooms decked out with sumptuous Chinese-style furniture, with intricate, golden carvings on the walls.
One photo shows a white, grand piano in a vast, empty room, put on a floor that looks like it is made of yellow and brown marble, and another reveals people posing under a huge, golden structure made up of four marble pillars.
Chinese web users have lashed out furiously at the state-owned firm -- based in northeast China's Heilongjiang province -- for its lavish spending on the building.
Li Xiaomeng, a well-known journalist for Chinese state television, pointed out on her microblog that according to finance ministry statistics, state-owned firms made a total profit of nearly two trillion yuan ($313 billion) in 2010.
"But they only handed in five percent of that (to the treasury)," she said.
"It is said state-owned companies are the people's firms and the people should know how the state-owned companies spend their profits. Is the 'palace' what the people would like to see?" she said.
Ver"What happened…? This is very normal. What’s the big deal? This is what the healthy development of a business looks like. So Chinese state-owned enterprises aren’t allowed to do this? I support Harbin Pharmaceuticals… Hope there will be even more enterprises like Harbin Pharmaceuticals…"
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