The Putuo Zongcheng Temple, or "Little Potala Palace", in Chengde. [Photo by pudelklopper/shanghaiist.com]

Chengde, located in the northeast of Hebei Province is about 256 kilometers away from Beijing. It attracts tourists who are interested in Tibetan culture and is regarded as the "Little Potala Palace" close to Beijing.

That is what the shanghaiist.com reports: "Why visit the real Lhasa when there's a fake one closer to home? Richard Bernstein, of The New York Review of Books, visits Chengde, not far from Beijing, where Kangxi, the great Qing Dynasty emperor, built a replica of the Potala Palace. Tourism authorities have in recent years developed the place as a monument to Kangxi and a quasi-theme park that is now teeming with Chinese tourists. Bernstein describes what he saw in the Kangxi Ceremony, an 'ultra-high-tech theatrical extravaganza' that now plays nightly in the new amphitheatre."