An aerial shot of the giant bar code built as part of a tourism campaign by Xilinshui village in Hebei. Photo: Xinhua An aerial shot of the giant bar code built as part of a tourism campaign by Xilinshui village in Hebei. Photo: Xinhua
An aerial shot of the giant bar code built as part of a tourism campaign by Xilinshui village in Hebei. Photo: Xinhua
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Chinese village builds giant QR code in field in effort to connect with visitors

Tourism campaign uses 130,000 juniper trees to create scannable pattern that can be seen from the air

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Sarah Zheng
Sarah Zheng

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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An aerial shot of the giant bar code built as part of a tourism campaign by Xilinshui village in Hebei. Photo: Xinhua An aerial shot of the giant bar code built as part of a tourism campaign by Xilinshui village in Hebei. Photo: Xinhua
An aerial shot of the giant bar code built as part of a tourism campaign by Xilinshui village in Hebei. Photo: Xinhua
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