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How do you change the Feng Shui of the natural landscape? You do what the Chinese government does – you paint an entire barren hill green. Rather than planting actual foliage to cover the bare landscape, paint will suffice no? The cost of painting the hillside? $56,000! How many seedlings can you buy letting the hill naturally turn "green"?

Villagers in southwestern China are puzzled by a county government’s decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.

Workers who began spraying Laoshou mountain in August told villagers that they were doing so on orders of the county government but were not told why, media reports said Wednesday.

Some villagers guessed that officials of the surrounding county, Fumin, whose office building faces the mountain, were trying to change the area’s feng shui — the ancient Chinese belief of harmonizing one’s physical environment for maximum health and financial benefit.

Does anyone want to pretend something like this was happening in your city? What type of conversation would ensue at the next public council meeting? Would you raise a fight?