Just Google "China Ghost Towns"
This is just a sample of what you will see!
Posted on 07/18/2016 7:46:34 AM PDT by C19fan
Ambitious expansion plans by small and medium towns across China have lead to the creation of more than 3,500 “new areas” for residential and economic use raising fears many are destined to become ghost towns. The combined projected population of these new areas is an “impossible” 3.4 billion people – 2.5 times the current number of people in the country, experts say. The world’s population today stands at 7.3 billion, according to the US Census Bureau.
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How about the ghost cities?
Someone has been cheating that one child per family thing.
I’m sure that the construction is all of the highest quality. Not.
they need to lower the prices of houses to encourage movement into them. Prices are too high, that’s why theres so many ghost cities
Lot of Brown not much Green!
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I noticed that too!
They have 1/6 of the arable land of the US and 500% the population. They will either start a war to kill off their surplus of male youths or they will have a civil war.
They know they are going to get a punch in the face from the rest of Asia. So mini Mao Xi is trying for another cultural revolution. He’s a punk and has already been shot. He survived.
China is fcked six ways to Sunday. They know it and Trump has them shit scared.
Soylent Green, anyone?
There are currently at least a dozen Chinese cities with metro areas greater than 10 million - at least a half-dozne with metro areas bigger than NYC’s. I was offered a chance for a well-paid summer position in some city in China I never heard of - I looked it up, and it was bigger than any city in the US - and I’d never even seen its name in print before. The population dynamic in that country is almost unimaginable.
Wait a minute....
during the Beijing Olympics, officials said that the city is prone to periods of “mist” and “fog” and “cloudiness” and “drizzle”, but they denied that there was air pollution in Beijing.
Of course, a totalitarian government can lie with impunity about any issue and not be challenged on their views.
Ya, I’m surprised about this story for that reason. I thought their population growth had been cut way down, due to the 1 child policy.
if you build them, they will come
But why are they empty?
The growth numbers tell me that the existence of the policy may have been exaggerated.
Maybe it's applied selectively depending on political leanings.
It was not well enforced. Particularly in the rural areas.
Their population rate is already stalled out - they probably won’t make it past 1.6 billion.
As far as the “ghost cities” go, I’ve lived next to one (I spent a few years living in China). It’s the way they do things. A huge, 50,000 person development is built (complete with stores, apartments, roads, etc) and completed before ANYONE can move in. So you see this big place that’s all ready to go but totally empty one day and BOOM - a week later it’s fully occupied.
Most residential housing projects do not start to break ground until at least 50% of the units are sold. They don’t really start pouring concrete until everything is sold...
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