Not all rich people in China are into fast cars or fancy apartments. Some have a taste for more unearthly treasures like space rocks!
Take jade dealer Tong Xianping, 50, who has an extensive spotlit collection of meteorites in his Urumqi showroom.
He bought a piece of Seymchan for 1 million yuan (about $163,600), which is thought to be billions of years old, and got part of a Gibeon for a similar price.
“It was worth it. They are news from space,” he told AFP. “… Company founders and bosses like big meteorites.”
Tong keeps some of his bounty in a safe, such as a set of carbonaceous chondrites he found himself. “These are very complete fragments, and hard to find,” he added.
Cars are manufactured, but there can only be one of each meteorite.
