As sprawling housing developments and skyscrapers in one of the world's most populous countries, these tower blocks and recently-built neighbourhoods should be busy and swarming with people.
But on closer inspection these stunning pictures show elaborate public buildings and open spaces which are left completely empty.
The most recent pictures of unused housing emerged as China announced plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years.
Soulless cities: Despite being unable to find buyers for the hundreds of millions of new homes, China plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years
Property to let: Rows of neat, newly-built houses like these in Jiangsu are becoming more common in China
Desolate: These skyscraper in Chenggong, where there are already 100,00 new homes, should be bustling with life but are instead empty
And despite pictures last year showing some of the reported 64 million empty homes, Chinese authorities have since erected masses more buildings.
Gillem Tulloch, an aanlyst for Forensic Asia Limited, described one of the areas in Chenggong, as a 'forest of skyscrapers'.
When asked what has happened in the past six months since the ghost cities were built, he said: 'China built more of them.
'China consumes more steel, iron ore and cement per capita than any industrial nation in history.
Unused: Another vacant development in Jiangsu contains well over 100 new properties
Plenty of room spare: Experts have said some of the developments are like a 'forest of skyscrapers'
'It's like walking into a forest of skyscrapers, but they're all empty.'
Chinese government think tank have warned that the country's real estate bubble is getting worse, with property prices in major cities overvalued by as much as 70 per cent.
Tulloch said that apartments in Chenggong, a fishing village near Hong Kong, were selling for up to $80,000.
Many of the developments like this one in Ordos, China, have swathes of newly-created public space completely unused by anyone
Zhengzhou New District residential towers: Soaring property prices in China and high levels of investment has fuelled the construction of up several new cities. Experts fear a subsequent property crash could damage the global economy
Property bubble: Zhengzhou New District features vast public buildings that have never been used
(Third pic from the bottom) You can see the sun with something in front of it, blocking the sunlight.
The smaller round blue building (above and slightly to the left of the sun) represents the moon.
At first glance I thought it would be a new moon but the moon is slightly off center. December 20th 2012 the moon is in the first quarter phase.
(If all this is right, the blood red moon will be a first quarter moon, which looks like a half moon.)
The bigger round thing represents Earth.
Acts 2:20
American King James Version
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
Revelation 6:12 NKJV
New King James Version
I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.
(Duh, it couldn't be a new moon anyway. How could people see it turn red?)
2 comments:
those buildings in china are empty because they all moved to vancouver and drove up the price of our real estate to insane levels.
a simple house in vancouver is now over a million bucks and a 33 foot lot on the west side is about 3 million bucks.
Billy - I could move up there, that would lower property values.
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