The World's Largest Shopping Mall (is in China and its empty!)

PBS Website ^ | August 2009 | PBS Documentary

[grayhog]

This mall is 2x the size of the Mall of the America's and it is empty. Pretty jarring video (its 13 mins long). Interesting companion to the report on the city for 1 million people in China that is also empty (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388274/posts).

Funny to watch the teletubby guy jumping around trying to look happy and entertain the non-existant kids in the empty mall.

[mrmeyer]

Reminds me of the supermarkets in Cuba with no food or cities in N. Korea with no people in them.

[Leo Carpathian]

Another example of commie “planned economy”

[mikelets456]

They have to buy their GPS’ and none of them can pass their driving test...hence, no way to get to the mall :(

[RobRoy]

bOOKMARK

[FromLori]

Entire empty cities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7V3Twb-Qk

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

That may be one of the most depressing things that I have ever seen. With all the power to do good, an empty mall is built in no where.

ugh

[kjo]

This is the kind of thing PBS would “cover”. The emphasis here is...a failure of capitalism...though the failure is that of a planned, centralized, economy.

Today...CNN is calling the Ft Hood terrorist a “conservative”. I’m not kidding. That’s the kind of media we have today.

[GauchoUSA]

Funny how they credit capitalism for the failure of this great huge mall...If you ask me you don’t even have to take Economics 101 to find out what is really wrong with this mall...it’s simple: location, location, location... it’s as plain as the nose on the chinese faces (oh wait)

[FromLori]

Also related

Is China headed toward collapse?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29330.html

[Red Badger]

Maybe we could fill it with cheap American goods................

[dog breath]

I would guess that they might have more shoppers if they paid the working people in China more. Even in countries with a real middle class it is hard to keep a mall going, it must be very frustrating without the average Chung, Chang and Wu having the money to blow at the mall. Maybe the government could force the people to smile and act like they are shopping there for the next documentary.

[Cardhu]

They built an entire modern city with that Mall in it but until they get people to live there they connot attracts business. The apartments are all sold but mostly my speculators.

The people in the nearby city want to go there but dare not until there are more people and businesses - so it is in limbo.

[kittycatonline.com]

This is the kind of thing PBS would “cover”. The emphasis here is...a failure of capitalism...though the failure is that of a planned, centralized, economy.

Exactly. I think it's pretty clear where the failure lies. If it was truly capitalism, the developer would go bust, and they'd auction off the remains. But no, instead that mega-mall is propped up by government subsidies and loan guarantees! Like, oh, uh, General Motors. Just as failed, and just as now-Socialist.

[frog in a pot]

Thanks for the link.

[Rebelbase]

“Maybe we could fill it with cheap American goods................”

Whimmie-diddle sticks from Appalachia and Kachina Dolls from Arizona?

[Buckeye McFrog]

at 13:36 that’s the most PBS I’ve watched in nearly 20 years

[traumer]

EXCELLENT !!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Funny to watch the teletubby guy jumping around trying to look happy and entertain the non-existent kids in the empty mall.

Yeah, well a 50 year forced-abortion policy will get you that

[Buckeye McFrog]

almost as creepy as that footage of the Gaza Strip Mall where they were all taking their kids to the Build a Bomb Workshop