China's Empty Cities

[DeSwiss]

SBS Dateline·Published on Sep 10, 2013

Why are so many uninhabited cities still being built in China? Dateline returns to update one of its most watched stories, China's Ghost Cities, to find out.

For more on Adrian Brown's story, go to the SBS Dateline website... http://bit.ly/13xKcY6

[CFLDem]

1. To keep all the young males busy. nt

[DeSwiss]

3. Yeah, the problem is.....

...it's not working so well.

[pam4water]

2. Really interesting. Sounds like the old China mass social engineering. I would not want to leave

a house to go live in a high rise. The real question is what government officials are benefiting form sale or rent in the new high rises.

[DeSwiss]

4. The current purges that have.....

...and still are going on in China all seem to have to do with money. Who's getting it and who's not. Corruption is a way of life that has been easily incorporated into the communist model because it is cultural. But then so is the corruption here. We're just more sophisticated and less obvious about it. Well, the ''good'' ones always were.

- Now that the question as to who owns the US government is without question, they don't have to be as circumspect.

[pam4water]

7. The task of people trying to persevere a democratic republic is fight corruption not wax

philosophically about corruption.

I think you have at least a 2% higher chance of getting you money back for your property in the US

[Dustlawyer]

5. Strange that with all of the empty buildings around the farmers were playing pool outside!

[DeSwiss]

6. As the reporter mentioned......

...his interviews were arranged by the Communist Party. They're obviously trying to leave us Westerners with the impression that Chinese farmers have it so good, they can shoot pool all day and still bring in the harvest!

- Those lucky Chinese farmers!!!!!

[greiner3]

8. China has TRILLIONS of US dollars just sitting in banks not earning any real money;

And if they 'lose' say 10% of that to building empty cities but also spend say the same amount on projects that work NOW they will have advanced China's population immeasurably.

Even the empty cities will not decay to the point of inhabitablilty before the 400 million mentioned come to these, and other, cities.