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Former Minsk aircraft carrier now Chinese-owned
The Minsk, a Soviet-built aircraft carrier-turned-theme park, has been sold to a state-owned Chinese company for 128m yuan (£8.6m) and will continue to operate as an amusement venue, the buyers said yesterday. The 43,000-ton Kiev-class carrier was put up for sale after the company that bought it in 1998 and turned it into a floating theme park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen went bankrupt.

The attraction is popular with visitors from nearby Hong Kong, and has now been bought by the CITIC Shenzhen Group, which says it is working out a development plan.
So now the Chinese have the Minsk and the Varyag in their clutches, both of which are 'amusement parks', and both of which let the Chinese go to school on how to build an aircraft carrier.

Posted by: Steve White 2006-06-02
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