Five Things to Look For When Visiting Ghost Cities in China
Five Things to Look For When Visiting Ghost Cities in China
- China’s long economic boom famously left it dotted with an overbuilt landscape of empty apartment towers and decrepit shopping malls. Tracking these “ghost cities” has become a fixation of economists and analysts trying to determine the health of the Chinese property market and the state of the world’s second-largest economy. During seven years covering China’s property market, our correspondent has visited more than a few. One discovery: many
- China’s long economic boom famously left it dotted with an overbuilt landscape of empty apartment towers and decrepit shopping malls. Tracking these “ghost cities” has become a fixation of economists and analysts trying to determine the health of the Chinese property market and the state of the world’s second-largest economy. During seven years covering China’s property market, our correspondent has visited more than a few. One discovery: many
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