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Chinese gamer recreates Old Summer Palace in Minecraft

By Zhang Xiaomin | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-12-16 17:21

In the boundless, block-like universe of the popular sandbox video game Minecraft, a young Chinese gamer has meticulously resurrected part of the destroyed Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, in Beijing.

Watch the video to see a serene fly-through of the meticulously recreated virtual landscape made by Qiu Zekai, known online as Qiuxiaoniuer.

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