Pan Feng, an office staff worker in Shanghai, bought 20 postcards of a "Noah's Ark ticket" as a gift for her friends and colleagues for Dec. 21.
According to the movie, more than 400,000 people were chosen to board the arks which were constructed at a so-called Qiuming Valley in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
The valley is an area at a small basin three kilometers away from the Mainling Airport in Tibet's Nyingchi Prefecture.
When Xinhua reporters visited the valley on Thursday afternoon, two soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) guarding a small power station asked with a smile, "Are you coming to board the ark?"
One of the soldiers led reporters to the back of the station and pointed to a 20-meter-wide and 30-meter-high dam, or rather, a cement barricade wall preventing a landslide, and said that it was a "shipyard."
When a plane flew above, a soldier joked that "maybe some presidential plane is arriving."
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