Yea Dalian has some very western areas, like complete replicas of Europe or USA.
I wrote them long ago. Here's the links. I can see why they do it. I mean for decades everything was Chairman Mao style architecture which is old. They needed something different and what is more different than these examples below.
https://steemit.com/cn/@solarguy/i-landed-in-china-and-found-venice
https://steemit.com/cn/@solarguy/i-landed-in-china-and-found-new-england-what-a-surprise
Cool - I'll check out your posts - Yeah, it seems China has a fascination with recreating western architecture - even in Macau, an Eiffel Tower, and concrete Venetian waterways with signing men in gondolas :/