Posted on 06/18/2011 3:51:49 PM PDT by SanFranDan
FULL TITLE: China's ghost towns: New satellite pictures show massive skyscraper cities which are STILL completely empty
As sprawling housing developments and skyscrapers in one of the world's most populous countries, these tower blocks and recently-built neighbourhoods should be busy and swarming with people.
But on closer inspection these stunning pictures show elaborate public buildings and open spaces which are left completely empty.
The most recent pictures of unused housing emerged as China announced plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years.
And despite pictures last year showing some of the reported 64 million empty homes, Chinese authorities have since erected masses more buildings.
Gillem Tulloch, an aanlyst for Forensic Asia Limited, described one of the areas in Chenggong, as a 'forest of skyscrapers'.
When asked what has happened in the past six months since the ghost cities were built, he said: 'China built more of them.
'China consumes more steel, iron ore and cement per capita than any industrial nation in history.
'It's all going to railways that will never make money, roads that no one drives on and cities that no one lives in.
'It's like walking into a forest of skyscrapers, but they're all empty.'
Chinese government think tank have warned that the country's real estate bubble is getting worse, with property prices in major cities overvalued by as much as 70 per cent.
Tulloch said that apartments in Chenggong, a fishing village near Hong Kong, were selling for up to $80,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Much of this building had to do with GDP fakery. The Party told them to make sure they hit their GDP Targets, the only way to make those targets after a short while when all the foreign economies were slipping was to build. So they built huge cities that are falling apart already for lack of upkeep.
Another video about the city that was a government idea. The motivation was GDP! Watch and see for yourself.
Who is John Galt
Kind of funny when you think of how our country rapidly grew through real demand based upon Capitalism and a free market, compared to a command and control Socialist state like we are seeing here. Such a joke.....
The surviving Taiwanese will need a place to live.
Can we send all our illegals over there?
And do you think China would not have these things today?
I'm sure that's what the five year plan said to do, so they did it. Never mind it no longer made sense. It's The Plan.
I dimly recall reading that China recommended its citizens buy gold the other year. Maybe there is more economic freedom in communist China than in late-capitalist America.
Hell NO, How??? ,The bent Bastard thought giving them our industrial base, would hurry their embracing of Democracy.
I say we get the Chinese leaders sloppy drunk and then get them to take all of our illegals and welfare in lieu of our debt. A win-win for everybody!!
Where will the Chinese go after their major cities are taken out in a nuke war with the U.S.? Hmmmmmm to their uninhabited cities!
For Siberians perhaps...
Conversations with people who lived through communism and then moved here are illuminating. Engage any you can and they’ll tell you about what’s going on in this country without the double-talk: the euphemisms, neologisms, circumlocutions, the general misdirection our ‘representatives’ deign to share with us in response to real concerns about the future of our country and us in it.
I’m very far from being a China expert. It seems that in moving from communism to ‘state capitalism’ they’ve done something like create a national socialism (instead of the international socialism that communism is), which in German is ‘Nationalsozialismus’, and its adherents ‘nazis’ from that. On the surface of it, they talk much about equality of citizens and the health and wealth of the nation, but it’s a command economy, so that’s dictated as well, and in practice is often very far from what the public statements are. Looking deeper is also penalized, often severely.
That video posted above is a very good introduction to what’s going on over there. Particularly useful is the view presented by the China expert from Hong Kong, and the brief interview with a poor Chinese man who actually works building these (mostly) ghost cities, but is too afraid of the repercussions to talk about what he knows on camera.
The problem for the Chinese as I see it, is that ghost towns don’t keep well. Unlike say a car, that you could drain all the fluids from, shrink wrap, and put in a barn for 30 years, cities are bound to start falling apart if they sit empty. Looting, animal infestations, water damage, temperature extremes, I have a feeling that when they try to “start” those cities back up they’re going to have all sorts of problems.
edit: take our welfare *recipients*...
Eerie, looking at the photos at the site.
It reminds me of that fairly recent Dr. Who episode, “Silence in the Library.”
Been chewing on this . . .
Pretend . . . that the Chinese KNOW there’s a WWIII scheduled [which, of course, they do].
They KNOW major population centers will be devastated utterly in a list of ways [which, of course, they do].
They KNOW the survivors will need housing etc. [which, of course, they do].
They KNOW that currently, their money would buy more bang for the buck [plausible?]
They KNOW . . . or think they know . . . that the tyrannical global government will function best in preplanned; completely surveiled homes, neighborhoods, towns.
Voila—TA DA!
Of course, it’s also likely true, that corruption might have a hand in such things but I don’t think that’s a SUFFICIENT explanation.
See my post just above.
Thx.
Plans for war, plans to appease certain groups of rural citizens who want to live in a city but currently cannot.
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