[C19fan]

Talk about a bubble. Sounds like a possible cheap place to retire; free modern housing.

[headstamp 2]

How about the ghost cities?

[DungeonMaster]

Someone has been cheating that one child per family thing.

[glorgau]

I’m sure that the construction is all of the highest quality. Not.

[RayChuang88]

I don't think so. China has such huge pollution problems that 15-20 years from now, they'll have a GIGANTIC bill trying to take care of people affected by air and water pollution (the air is so bad the infamous December 1952 London Smog days are actually the norm in many Chinese cities).

[left that other site]

Just Google "China Ghost Towns"

This is just a sample of what you will see!

[4rcane]

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

[samtheman]

bookmark

[mindburglar]

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.

[Stosh]

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.

[bert]

if you build them, they will come

[Shanghai Dan]

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...

[JimRed]

The built the housing, now they need more people? Results of top-down planning writ large.

[Vince Ferrer]

First, they don’t have the water resources for a population that high. Second, a population that dense will have a birthrate collapse.