China’s Ghost Cities
April 11th, 2011Madness on afterburner, comrade.
Via: Dateline:
Vast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns.
It’s all part of the government’s efforts to keep the economy booming, and there are many people who would love to move in, but it’s simply too expensive for most.
Video journalist Adrian Brown wanders through malls of vacant shops, and roads lined with empty apartment buildings… 64 million apartments are said to be empty across the country and one of the few shop owners says he once didn’t sell anything for four or five days.
So are the efforts to boost the economy going to end up having the opposite effect and creating a financial crisis for China?
I’ve read somewhere that these could also be used in the event of a massive war.
It makes sense to me.
In a WWIII between US-Israeli-British-NATO Axis v. Russia-China-Middle East, people could be moved from damaged cities to these empty ones.
One possibility…
But yeah, talk about a housing bubble…