The Other Side of Chinese Growth - Ghost CitiesThese amazing images show sprawling cities built in remote parts of china which are completely empty, even years after construction! China in their drive for high GDP figures has created a huge real estate speculative boom which is at dangerous levels. Around 20 new cities are built every where which find few end users. 
China's most famous ghost city - Ordos The area is filled with office towers, administrative centers, government buildings, museums, theaters and sports fields—not to mention acre on acre of subdivisions overflowing with middle-class duplexes and bungalows. The only problem: the district was originally designed to house, support and entertain 1 million people, yet hardly anyone lives there.
There are no cars in the city, except for a few dozen parked at the glamorous government center!
Here's China's biggest ghost city: Zhengzhou New District  This $19 billion development is packed with blocks of empty houses  Like Ordos, Zhengzhou New District has glamorous public buildings  Zhengzhou New District residential towers -- EMPTY This city was built in the middle of a desert: Erenhot, Xilin Gol, Inner Mongolia
Half of Erenhot is empty. The other half is unfinished The ghost city of Dantu has been mostly empty for over a decade
In most neighborhoods of Dantu, there are no cars, no signs of life The mostly empty city of Bayannao’er, which boasts a beautiful town hall and World Bank-sponsored water reclamation building These are just a few examples of the many ghost cities. List would surely keep increasing with many more being made every year!
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In India we occupy and build the city whereas in China they are so much proactive that they had built the city and waiting to occupy. If they divert a fraction of the population these cities can be filleed. But their intentions seemed to be to lure the outsiders.
in india too many people no house to live
what a contrast
bubble is bulding up.......
in this way we can solve many problems like overcrowding, distribution of work & wealth, unemployment, traffic jams and many many more..
Quoting manohar chhabra:
lets go and occupy china !
Only when we revert to villages and and live a simpler life sharing our wealth with each other, the world progresses and not by trying to build more and more facilities which we may never use!
but could not understand how new district of Zhengzhou is listed in ghost city????
I have been living in zhengzhou for last 5years. and I have witnessed the changes too. Now dense population can be found in this district (called CBD, zhengzhou).
have a good detail before you make anything public.
Result: GROWTH.
Fascinating infrastructure really!
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