PHOTOS: Changchun installs fake trees to go with fake bushes

Changchun has taken the lead in the war against seasonal affective disorder.

Not content with covering the city's dead shrubbery with sickly green fake grass wallpaper, the capital of northeastern Jilin Province has now installed fake trees to go with the fake bushes.

PHOTOS: Changchun covers up dead plants with green bush wallpaper

Some netizens thought that the project looked "too fake" and sighed that "the entire country looks like it was thrown together by a three-year-old." Others, however, said people were being overly critical of the government and that the fake greenery, in a city where temperatures regularly dip to -15 degrees Celsius in the winter, was an admirable effort to lift people's spirits.

Too this, critics of the trees retorted that "winter should look like winter" and "if your spirits are that lifted by fake things, you just have poor taste." "Some people just like fake things," another explained, "especially some of our leaders."

[Images via Sohu, Sina]