Chinese workers attend the project launching ceremony of building a full-scale replica of the Titanic passenger liner in Daying county, Suining city,
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Chinese workers attend the project launching ceremony of building a full-scale replica of the Titanic passenger liner in Daying county, Suining city, southwest China's Sichuan province, 30 November 2016. Tony Blair's former communications chief Peter Mandelson is pushing a rather different project: the New Titanic, a 1bn yuan (ê 116m) bid to rebuild the doomed passenger liner in a landlocked Chinese county more than 1, 200km from the sea. On Wednesday (30 November 2016), more than a century after RMS Titanic sank claiming more than 1, 500 lives, Mandelson reportedly travelled to Sichuan province's Daying county to take part in what local media described as a solemn ceremony to officially kick off construction of the full-scale replica. The 269-metre New Titanic is the centrepiece of a high-end tourist resort being built in Daying, about 115km east of Sichuan's capital, Chengdu. Qixing Energy Investment, the Chinese firm behind the doomed liner's revival, has faced criticism that it is seeking to profit from the 1912 catastrophe, which occurred during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.