Chinese Ghost Town

JuanPabloAngel

JuanPabloAngel

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WAs going to put it in the 'Conspiracy' thread, but thought maybe a new one for this:

The vast cities that have been built in China, ready for a workforce yet to arrive. It's amazing, and quite eerie. One or two of the places have a few thousand inhabitants, but nowhere near the numbers intended. Crazy.

http://www.bbc.com/future/gallery/20170224-the-eerie-cities-where-nobody-lives?ocid=fbfut
 
you could have JPA.. that's fascinating!

All that money and no one living in the developments. Amazing stuff. Massive knock on environmentally what is going on in China (not just China to be fair) as well.

Bit like where I used to go on holiday in Egypt, loads of half built hotels, some just the foundations, others crumbling where they have been half built. It was all tourism before the revolution, then it ground to a halt.
 
I remember seeing that covered in the first season of Vice.

They send a reporter to one of the cities, and drive around. It is very eerie indeed.
 
I visited a ghost town in Malaysia two years ago. It's called Papan. It was a mining town until the mine closed and everyone left. There are some beautiful old derelict shophouses there. Of course, it's nothing like the scale of the Chinese ghost towns.

Ghost towns are fairly common in China. The irony is that those apartments are all sold to investors so the developers are keen to keep building. Aren't property bubbles fascinating.
 
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