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I just googled ghost city china and clicked on a random image which was a cnn article from 2014: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-ordos-ghost-town/index
by xscdcd 8y ago
I just googled ghost city china and clicked on a random image which was a cnn article from 2014:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-ordos-ghost-town/index.html https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-ordos-ghost-town/ind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordos_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordos_City
Apparently it is no longer a ghost town.
- gthtjtkt 8y agoOh look, the propaganda team has arrived!
- ehmish 8y agoYou don't seem to be refuting the central claim, but rather accusing the person of being non-genuine, can you point out any flaws with their assertion?
- sonnyblarney 8y agoOrdos is kind of the 'original' ghost city, the one that sparked Western curiosity. There's a lot of reporting about it subsequently. It looks like folks are indeed moving in, but maybe not at the rate that would make sense.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoOrdos was never a ghost city, one of its newly built far out districts, Kangbashi, was. Chinese cities are more like counties that contain multiple municipalities.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoMany westerners don’t really understand china’s district system for cities. Ordos City is very old, maybe a couple of thousand years by various names. Kangbashi is a new remote district (New Town) of Ordos that was built over the last couple of decades and is still very much empty. It is too far away to commute to Ordos’s older more popular districts, and so people don’t want to live there. Many of the apartments have been bought out by speculators, however.