I traveled outside of Beijing about 2 years ago and I passed through a ghost city. I could see, literally, from horizon to horizon nothing but the same exact style apartment buildings and construction cranes in the distance. In the streets though, nothing. You know if a unit is occupied because there will be an AC unit in the window and I estimated about 5% of the units were occupied. I could count the number of people I saw on one hand.
So it sounds like it was still early in development. As I said, they’re planned to be underpopulated at first because they are built in anticipation of demand rather than in response to it. Other areas that have been reported on as “ghost cities” have since been populated.
I traveled outside of Beijing about 2 years ago and I passed through a ghost city. I could see, literally, from horizon to horizon nothing but the same exact style apartment buildings and construction cranes in the distance. In the streets though, nothing. You know if a unit is occupied because there will be an AC unit in the window and I estimated about 5% of the units were occupied. I could count the number of people I saw on one hand.
So it sounds like it was still early in development. As I said, they’re planned to be underpopulated at first because they are built in anticipation of demand rather than in response to it. Other areas that have been reported on as “ghost cities” have since been populated.