{"id":340814,"date":"2010-02-19T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/forget-empty-housing-developments-china-is-full-of-new-and-totally-empty-cities-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-19T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:02:00","slug":"forget-empty-housing-developments-check-out-the-massively-empty-cities-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/340814","title":{"rendered":"Forget Empty Housing Developments, Check Out The Massively Empty Cities Of China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From ForeignPolicy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the gritty Inner Mongolian wind, I stood at the pinnacle of the global economy, at least in terms of GDP growth: the main drag of one of the fastest growing cities in the fastest-growing region in all of China, the world’s supposed new economic powerhouse.<\/p>\n

Built in a breakneck five years, Kangbashi is a state-of-the-art city full of architectural marvels and sculpture gardens. There’s just one thing missing: people. The city, built by the government and funded with coal money, its chief industries energy and carmaking, has been mostly vacant for as long as it has been complete, except for the massive municipal headquarters. It’s a grand canyon of empty monoliths. In a paradox only possible in today’s economic system, Kangbashi manages to be both a boom town and a ghost town at the same time. <\/p>\n

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