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.

China Law Blog has a guest post by Dirk Chilcote who had lived in Zhenzhou for 3 years. He is skeptical of western media's report on China's ghost cities: In my three years living and working in the ...

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China’s property crisis is expected to worsen as new home sales plummet and indebted developers struggle to find funds to complete projects. WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng traveled to an abandoned “ghost town” ...

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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 ...

Yet history has shown that China's ghost cities can be brought back from the brink. Once dubbed China's answer to Dubai, Ordos district Kangbashi was planned as a massive civic mall with abundant ...