Lets not forget China's economy is overwhelmingly export driven; so the fact that they might decide to build towns and not use them- whilst seeming really odd-

Lets not forget China's economy is overwhelmingly export driven; so the fact that they might decide to build towns and not use them- whilst seeming really odd- doesn't seem to me to be predictive of any kind of an economic crash. The difficulties that western economies are having would seem a much greater threat to China's economy than this.