Inside China's mini-Paris: Town built to look just like French capital complete with its own Eiffel Tower and Chapms elysées

With the Eiffel Tower standing proudly above decorative European buildings, this looks like a magnificent view of the famous French capital.

However, not all is at it seems. Incredibly, this Parisian scene is actually in the middle of China.

The Tianducheng development in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is filled with grand European buildings and wide walkways.

Ornate fountains and statues also line the streets of the town.

With China's love of all things French, the developers no doubt expected the town to be a huge success.

But things haven't quite worked out as they would have hoped.

Despite being designed to accommodate at least ten thousand people, the town remains sparsely populated.

Local media have now started labelling it as a 'ghost town', with pictures showing the large streets remaining virtually empty.

Images from the town show how China's aspirations and its traditional culture collide.

Surrounded by farmland and wide roads, farmers can be seen working in fields with the mock Eiffel Tower looming over them.