This build-a-city approach is also probably due to the large rural population in China that have been steadily urbanizing or just moving to the cities for work.

This build-a-city approach is also probably due to the large rural population in China that have been steadily urbanizing or just moving to the cities for work. So there is some expectance that cities will be filled which does generate false hope and random ghost towns near places of economic activities. Good example in the past is Shenzhen which became big and the other unknown cities built around that time and was grouped with Shenzhen that people have forgotten because they never became big. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_China