Officials in a Beijing suburb have built themselves a white-walled, gold-domed office complex resembling Moscow’s Kremlin, prompting anger among the public.

Photographs published by the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper show a sprawling complex, whose arched windows and gleaming spires resemble those of the Cathedral of the Annunciation in the Russian presidential palace, flanked by factories churning out smoke in the background.

The buildings, which were built to house the district’s weather, seismological, water services and landscaping bureaus, ranged in cost from 9.3 million (US$1.5 million) to 21 million yuan, the newspaper reported.

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