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Inside China's $90bn ghost town where 1.2m residents find it 'boring'
A massive $85 billion ghost town in China has been dubbed 'boring' by one of its few inhabitants. In the Hebei province, the city of Xiong'an was birthed in 2017, touted by China as a beacon for ...
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China’s Property Crisis: Inside a Ghost Town of Abandoned Mansions
WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng traveled to an abandoned “ghost town” to see the challenge China’s real-estate slump poses for the government. Photo: Antoine Morel for The Wall Street Journal ...
The incredible £800m city that's 'the Paris of Asia' but is now a 'ghost town'
Its designers recreated some of Paris' most iconic features, even giving the city its own Eiffel Tower - though at 108m tall ...
The incredible £80bn 'ghost city' with dozens of abandoned skyscrapers
Nine years after its launch, it's estimated that just 15% of the mega-project has been completed and the city remains largely ...
Even China’s Property Stalwart Isn’t Immune From the Crisis
Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in.
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New satellite images show inside China’s ghost cities
China still has a startling number of vacant real-estate developments, judging from new satellite analysis by DigitalGlobe and Business Insider. Chinese ghost cities have made headlines for nearly ...
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The picturesque ghost town at the edge of the world
Only around 200 people still live in and around the area, embracing the isolation of one of the most remote ghost towns in the world ... the trade deficit with China grew at the end of last ...