WTF?!? The ghost towns of China: Amazing satellite images show cities meant to be home empty

[Spirit Of Truth]

And why do you build vacant cities?


The ghost towns of China: Amazing satellite images show cities meant to be home to millions lying deserted

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Last updated at 6:40 PM on 17th December 2010

These amazing satellite images show sprawling cities built in remote parts of China that have been left completely abandoned, sometimes years after their construction.

Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with the exception of a few government vehicles near communist authority offices.
Some estimates put the number of empty homes at as many as 64 million, with up to 20 new cities being built every year in the country's vast swathes of free land.

The photographs have emerged as a Chinese government think tank warns that the country's real estate bubble is getting worse, with property prices in major cities overvalued by as much as 70 per cent.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-home-millions-lying-completely-deserted.html

 

[Hansa44]

OMG!!! I would highly recommend you take a look at the link!! You won't believe your eyes. (the pictures)

I can't help but wonder if these are survival cities. Didn't build them underground. Built them above ground and they are ready to go.

 

[Miracle]

That is really strange. Survival cities sounds like a good deduction. I wonder how many trillions went towards building these cities just to sit empty. Spooky.

 

[dissimulo]

This is one of the problems of central planning. In free markets, cities tend to grow around commercial enterprise. A lot of these Chinese "cities" are really industrial development zones. Since China has a lot of crowding, they have tried to build out attractive zones outside the urban cores. The idea was to attract both foreign and native companies to these well-appointed zones. That actually worked pretty well for a while, but when the economy started to slide, they already had a bunch of these zones in various stages of construction. Much like giant exurb subdivisions throughout the west, some of these may never be completed.

 

[Hansa44]

This is one of the problems of central planning. In free markets, cities tend to grow around commercial enterprise. A lot of these Chinese "cities" are really industrial development zones. Since China has a lot of crowding, they have tried to build out attractive zones outside the urban cores. The idea was to attract both foreign and native companies to these well-appointed zones. That actually worked pretty well for a while, but when the economy started to slide, they already had a bunch of these zones in various stages of construction. Much like giant exurb subdivisions throughout the west, some of these may never be completed.

Except, if you read the whole article they are still building more of these cities like crazy!

 

[Troke]

"...Except, if you read the whole article they are still building more of these cities like crazy!.."

A classic example of the efficiency of government. The agency in charge of seeing these built is not the agency in charge of seeing that they are used.

We had the same thing in the US with just different names for the 'agency'.

 

[China Connection]

Yeah, well I live and work in a city that has 800,000 but is being expanded to 2,000,000 according to central planing. They are building apartment blocks like mad. Trouble is where is the work going to come from from a world in recession to be able to provide jobs for tenants?


Yep, I can see big problems this coming year for China. However they are still better off here then in the US. Over half the population here has a small farm to hold up in for bad time. They also have the industrial infrastructure to be first off the rank when a turnaround comes.


It's going to be a brave new world before long!



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[mzkitty]

One of the comments at the link, FWIW:


The cities were built with the money printed by the Federal Reserve ( a Rothschild Company ) and they were meant as survival and New places to live after WW3 .
Indeed , the Chinese understand that the Bilderbergs will start a nuclear war with North Korea which will drag in China and even Russia and Europe .
So the Chinese are preparing : buying tremendous amounts of gold and ... building empty cities ( hence not worth nuking in the WW3 ) to be populated at the end of the war ( gwad knows they have tonnes of people to 'spare' ) .

This is another proof that the Elite is not too bright , but never the less , you and me will still be cannon fodder !

See How to avoid the WW3 and to build a new human specie at the RecipeForaNation.Wordpress , future shocking !

- Urod, Canada , with Love, 17/12/2010 23:27

 

[Knoxville's Joker]

Yeah, well I live and work in a city that has 800,000 but is being expanded to 2,000,000 according to central planing. They are building apartment blocks like mad. Trouble is where is the work going to come from from a world in recession to be able to provide jobs for tenants?


Yep, I can see big problems this coming year for China. However they are still better off here then in the US. Over half the population here has a small farm to hold up in for bad time. They also have the industrial infrastructure to be first off the rank when a turnaround comes.


It's going to be a brave new world before long!



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It is a communist thing. They build to keep the masses of workers busy and distracted. They then have another crew tear down the oldest construction and start over. Russia did this to a much smaller degree during the cold war. China just has much more money to blow this time around.

 

[LoupGarou]

I think part of it is the communist "make work" (shovel ready BS). But I think more of it IS a survival issue, and paid for by us, both directly, and indirectly. Just look at some of the wording on the page at the link:

Notice how most of the empty housing is near either energy development or manufacturing sectors in china.

From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html

Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with the exception of a few government vehicles near communist authority offices.

Some estimates put the number of empty homes at as many as 64 million, with up to 20 new cities being built every year in the country's vast swathes of free land.
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Ghost city: Kangbashi was meant to be the urban centre for wealthy coal-mining community Ordos and home to its one million workers, but its roads are eerily empty and the houses stand vacant
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The mostly empty city of Bayannaoer, which boasts a beautiful town hall and World Bank-sponsored water reclamation building
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Property to let: Zhengzhou New District is China's biggest ghost city, complete with entire blocks of totally empty accommodation
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Property bubble: Zhengzhou New District features vast public buildings that have never been used
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Kangbashi, which was built in just five years, was meant to be the urban centre for Ordos City - a wealthy coal-mining hub home to 1.5million people.

It was filled with office towers, administrative centres, museums, theatres and sports facilities as well as thousands of homes, but remains virtually deserted.
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The orange area to the north-east of the Xinyang has yet to be occupied
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Zhengzhou New District residential towers: Soaring property prices in China and high levels of investment has fuelled the construction of up several new cities. Experts fear a subsequent property crash could damage the global economy

Prices have continued to soar, investors have increasingly turned to property speculation fuelling the continued bubble.

The onset of the 2008 global recession was the bursting of the real estate bubble in the U.S. and experts fear a similar situation in China could prove catastrophic for still struggling economies and banking systems.

Beijing has introduced measures to cool 'ridiculous' property prices, but the risks of a crash mean the campaign is unlikely to ease up in the next year.

Yes, most of it is the speculators and the "make work" attitude clashing together, but they ARE using it to be prepared for after a major war.

We aren't. Our housing bubble was spent on completely useless designs. But then again, I'm betting that was the plan all along as it would guarantee the biggest asset transfer from the "haves" to TPTB.
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the Federal Reserve ( a Rothschild Company )

Does "The Ben Bernank" know about this?

Loup

 

[energy_wave]

This is why copper pipe went from $3.99 a ten foot section to $32.00. A roll of wire from $18.50 to $38.00. A bag of cement from $5.50 to $11.50 or a square of roofing from $36.00 to $91.90.

 

[ivantherussian03]

I followed the link and went to the bottom of that page and saw comments.

I liked Rob Synder's from Australia comments "Not only western governments make stupid decisons."

lmao

 

[Dennis Olson]

the ChiComs. May they rot in hell...

 

[SIRR1]

Capitalist Chicoms

The photographs have emerged as a Chinese government think tank warns that the country's real estate bubble is getting worse, with property prices in major cities overvalued by as much as 70 per cent.


In a communist society doesn't the "Dear leader" set real estate prices or just give it away to the people and not sell it?

How can the peoples land get deaded to an individual for resale at a higher price, and then does the new buyer own the propety or do the people still own it.

I am confused...

I am thinking the Chicoms want control but also want the ways of a Western society which I think will be their downfall.

SIRR1

 

[LoupGarou]

SIRR1,

The trick is for the government to supply all the jobs, as well as the housing, and if you are a good little worker, and don't buck the system, you get a better place to stay, and a little bigger stipend.

All of the "good little workers" that live through the nuclear war over there will be the ones allowed to live in the new cities and work hard to get things going again. The others that live through it that are not "good little workers" are the ones that will either clean up the mess, or be burying the "good little workers" that did not live through the nuclear attacks. Stipends not included, and as they (the not so good little workers) drop dead from contamination, the remaining "not so good little workers" will bury them until they are all used up.

Loup

 

[Hansa44]

the ChiComs. May they rot in hell...

Why Dennis? Because they're a lot smarter than we are? In this country the elite are building underground survival bunkers for themselves. And absolutely nothing for the worker ants.

The elite are basically a worthless and useless type of human that makes no plans for their future except to save their own asses. Then what? Who's going to do the work and rebuild in this country? In fact, they've got most citizens in a rage.

Where will everyone go after a war? Detroit?

Back in the 60's I read that the Chinese would be the next reining power on this planet. At the time I didn't see how that could happen and guess what!

 

[dissimulo]

Except, if you read the whole article they are still building more of these cities like crazy!

Sure. China has a huge surplus population. They can either pay people to do make-work or they can suffer the chaos that breeds in massive unemployment and poverty. I have always been amazed at the kinds of things that are turned into jobs in China. Almost everywhere you go in eastern China, there are dudes in military uniforms standing around doing nothing. Some people dig holes, other people fill them in, everybody gets a uniform and a bowl of rice.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Why Dennis? Because they're a lot smarter than we are?

No, because they're taking all our jobs and going to own this country. The WHYs are many and varied as you know, but China is evil and bent on world domination. And they WILL achieve that goal. They can go straight to hell, every last one of them.

 

[Hansa44]

Sure. China has a huge surplus population. They can either pay people to do make-work or they can suffer the chaos that breeds in massive unemployment and poverty. I have always been amazed at the kinds of things that are turned into jobs in China. Almost everywhere you go in eastern China, there are dudes in military uniforms standing around doing nothing. Some people dig holes, other people fill them in, everybody gets a uniform and a bowl of rice.

I certainly would not want to live in that country. In fact, there are not many places on this whole planet that I would want to live in. It's corrupt everywhere and will change somehow. It has to. Even if it's not by war.

But it "seems" like the chinese are somehow trying to prepare for something. Can't say the same for this country.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Oh, this country is preparing for something alright. It's preparing for the armed insurrection that must surely come based on their bleeding of Americans and leaving them to wither and die.


Tick Tock.... (and TPTB know it)

 

[dstraito]

Maybe the NWO knows what is going to happen and it is not just China this is happening in.

What about the FEMA camps or the rumors of underground survival facilities around Denver and other places?


Could be the end game is near.

 

[China Connection]

The average Chinese person only thinks of where their next meal is coming from and how they are going to pay the bills coming in. To top this how they can get some cash together in case they need to go to hospital at some stage.


The controllers are not many in number and they are your only threat. They are not as bad as your controllers but to their own people. Yep, I know the one child police etc but yours will totally destroy your income base then let you starve on mass.



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