China's most famous ghost city on the outskirts of ORDOS has been empty for years
No cars in KANGBASHI, except for those parked at the glamorous government center
Empty houses in KANGBASHI -- with a luxury development in the upper right
CHENGGONG is building skyscrapers by the hundreds
CHENGGONG already has 100,000 new apartments with no occupants
CHENGGONG has two new universities. Both of them look empty
Dozens of new developments in JIANGSU with nary a car
Brand new, empty houses outside JIANGSU
Another empty development outside JIANGSU
Expensive lakeside condos in QIANDAOHU were bought by speculators. No one lives there
Already twice as big as Los Angeles, CHANGSHA is expanding rapidly to the east and the west
Here's one of the giant empty developments outside CHANGSHA
China is putting $19 billion into ZHENGZHOU NEW DISTRICT -- a megacity with 2 financial centers and 15 universities
ZHENGZHOU NEW DISTRICT is filled with glamorous public buildings
ERENHOT was built in the middle of a desert in Inner Mongolia
Half of ERENHOT is empty, the other half is unfinished
ERENHOT even has a luxury hotel
See that orange area to the north-east of the Xinyang?
It's a giant new development, which doesn't yet have a name
No cars in the city except for around 100 clustered around the government headquarters
The city of DANTU has been mostly empty for over a decade
In most neighborhoods of DANTU, there are no cars, no signs of life
An empty neighborhood in DANTU
Another empty neighborhood in DANTU
The mostly empty city of BAYANNAO'ER, which boasts a beautiful town hall and World Bank-sponsored water reclamation building
Finally, here's a picture of the unprecedentedly huge NEW SOUTH CHINA MALL -- which has been 99% empty since 2005
No cars in KANGBASHI, except for those parked at the glamorous government center
Monday, December 12, 2011
Maervelous urban developments for a brighter future. Awesome!
A picture is worth a thousand words but do those words tell the truth. We need the dates when the photos were taken to compare them to present photos to assess whether this is propaganda or not. These photos without reference are just simply photos not evidence of reality.
China cannot sustain its growth without other countries purchasing the cheap manufactured products. The whole world
is collapsing economically and the governments are all building totalitarian police infrastructure to manage the mass uprising. This will not work. The so called leaders are empty shells whom have lost their compassion and understanding for the common men and women. Once the corrupt regimes fall, then, we can rebuild our countries and provide jobs and benefits for all.
why are they building these places and not letting people live there?
Ooops.
This area is more than 4000 feet above sea level. People will live there after the coming deluge. They are ahead of the game, getting ready for what's coming! Hope they are wrong!
This area is more than 4000 feet above sea level. People will live there after the coming deluge. They are ahead of the game, getting ready for what's coming! Hope they are wrong!
In China, money generated through taxation of foreign companies and imported products (like ferarris) is sent down to local municipal governments of small towns, then used for construction projects that do not need to generate rent or sales to be profitable. The construction process alone IS the business. It is not a market based real estate market. The government earns money here by renting land to developers.
-architect in China.
China is planning to move hundreds of millions of people from rural areas to urban areas in the next 10 years. This is all part of a plan.
I don't know why the lack of cars is considered "evidence". Only a tiny fraction of Chinese people own a car. In the US, with 300 million people, there are about 200 million cars (2 cars/3 people). However, in China, with 1.3 Billion people, only about 50 million new cars have ever been sold in the country (~2 cars/50 people). I would expect that most cities and neighborhoods would have very few cars. If you were to take aerial photos of suburban US (specifically, neighborhoods where every house has a garage), wouldn't it look similar?