Management at a national heritage park in the Northwestern city of Xi'an has come under fire following its moves to tear down newly completed buildings, modeled after ancient ones, inside the park before its October opening.

An artistic rendering of Xi'an Daming Palace National Heritage Park.

The demolition of three such buildings in the 40-billion-yuan ($5.89 billion) Xi'an Daming Palace National Heritage Park is being fiercely criticized as a waste of money.

Daming Palace is well known for its illustration of the economic and cultural prosperity of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD).

The park, located one mile north of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD) city wall of Xi'an, covers 3.7 square kilometers, media reports said.

Zheng Peng, a 30-year-old technician living in the city, told the Global Times Thursday that the designer of the project should be blamed for the thoughtless plan that has wasted a lot of money and resources to remove the sites.