中国の不気味なゴーストタウンは、国の経済問題と住宅バブルの「症状」
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豪華な別荘、高層マンション、湖、公園、広大な道路網：中国のゴーストタウンにはすべてが揃っています。 重要な要素がXNUMXつだけ欠けています。それは人々です。 来たことのない人口のために建てられたこれらのシュールな場所の約50は、国中に荒れ果てています。 しかし、それでも建設は続いています。 これらの新しい都市は通常、既存の都市の郊外の農村地域に建設されます。 数十万人の人口を対象に設計された大規模建設プロジェクトには、そびえ立つ高層マンション、巨大なショッピングセンター、街の広場、街灯、ヨーロッパなどの都市のレプリカが含まれます。 中国の万里の長城の著者であるディニー・マクマホンは説明します… 続きを読む（6分間読む）
Vancouvers housing market makes sense now
These cities are built super low quality and a lot of times using unsafe/ inferior building materials and practices and are mostly uninhabitable.
The government builds this crap then uses it for collateral to borrow money. It’s just another scam their using to artificially inflate their wealth
Thats one hell of a bubble thats gonna burst some day, btw most of these arent abandoned they are never occupied, Spain had a similar property bubble before the 2008 stock market crash
Their current real estate bubble compared to the past US bubble is like a pebble vs the earth; it’s an incomprehensibly large amount of asset valuation that could be Thanos snapped in a millisecond. There is no way for it to end well. They just have to keep inflating it. Wild times.
Can you call something abandoned if they’ve never been occupied?
We passed some on the overnight train from Beijing to Xian. It was really eery.
This is a big reason why China’s economy looks as big as it does, and also partly why they will never surpass the US.
The Chinese economy is a lot of smoke and mirrors. Outside of the admittedly big manufacturing centers in the South, most of the Chinese economy is essentially a series of make-work jobs that don’t even exist to improve quality of life. They exist so Local Party Official A can show economic growth because that’s what he has to do to avoid prison today and political irrelevance in the 2000s.
Used to live there. They keep building more housing on a massive scale.
As well as people wanting to invest in property, a lot of people are superstitious about buying pre-owned property in case of bad energy left from previous occupants.
In addition, the ownership is likely to revert back to the Government eventually as it’s more like a lease of 70-90 years, although this has not yet been confirmed or denied by the Government for obvious reasons.