Brand new Chinese ghost towns

aerial view of a new Chinese ghost town

We were talking about New Towns recently. Here are some examples of how to do it badly – whole new cities built from scratch in China with hardly anyone living in them.

Here’s another story along the same lines: the Chinese government built a replica of Paris that is now mostly abandoned.

new town in a corn field in China

And here’s one more article about these places; the author says the Chinese New Towns are sparsely populated, but certainly not empty, and the term “ghost town” is an exaggeration.