China’s ghost cities: The story behind the country’s many empty towns of abandoned mansions

There are an estimated 90 million vacant or unfinished residences as the country enters its fifth consecutive year of its ...
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Inside China's 'ghost cities' crisis

It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.
Wall Street Journal

Five Things to Look For When Visiting Ghost Cities in China

China’s long economic boom famously left it dotted with an overbuilt landscape of empty apartment towers and decrepit shopping malls. Tracking these “ghost cities” has become a fixation of economists ...
CNN

Opinion: The lightning transformation of China’s ‘ghost cities’

It’s the knock every resident here dreads. Early Tuesday morning, a sudden loud banging at the door of my apartment in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Instantly, fear washed over me; health ...
Forbes

China’s Ghost City Dividend: Building A World-Class Supply Chain

Huawei's Luxury EV Is Now Outselling Porsche, Mercedes, and BMW Combined in China. Here's the System That Made It Possible. Huawei's Maextro S800, a luxury sedan launched in May 2025 for around ...
Global Times

Ghost cities: frightening failures or investments in China’s future?

Some of the ghost cities Wade Shepard has found across China. Photo: Courtesy of Wade Shepard Some of the ghost cities Wade Shepard has found across China. Photo: Courtesy of Wade Shepard For several ...
China Digital Times

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China seems to have taken a symptom of their real-estate bubble with them in their continued investment in Africa. Over the last three years, state-owned China ...
Reuters

The myth of China’s ghost cities

Ghost towns tend to start as boomtowns, and contemporary China more than likely has more boomtowns than any other country in history. No economy has ever risen so rapidly and no place has ever built ...