An even quicker search yields a population of 100k (even by China's numbers) - when it was planned for 1M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangbashi_District http

An even quicker search yields a population of 100k (even by China's numbers) - when it was planned for 1M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangbashi_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangbashi_District I guess if you consider (optimistic) 10% occupancy rates a Boom Town, then - yeah - maybe there aren't any Ghost Towns in China. Kangbashi cost $161B. Forest City cost $100B and it'll probably be a decade before they get the funding to finish it, and then probably a decade after that before it gets to 25% occupancy (optimistic). Who knows how many other $20B+ investments will be sitting at <20% occupancy for decades - and at least the ones in China are unlikely to ever get higher than that (since population is rapidly declining).