Night walk in "China's Largest Desert Ghost Town" ORDOS, Inner Mongolia, N. China

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ORDOS, China -- Kangbashi, a town in the middle of barren Inner Mongolia deserts, once found itself stuck with rows of newly built-but-vacant apartment buildings, earning a nationwide reputation as a "guicheng", or ghost town.

The first reports that labeled Ordos’ Kangbashi district a “ghost town” by an Al Jazeera reporter as well as a Time Magazine photographer delivered stories which highlighted the lack of people living in the new city, and in the process brought China’s ghost city phenomenon into global consciousness.

What this so called China's Largest Desert Ghost Town by western media looks now in 2021, check it out.

 

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See the tons of relentless smearing and slandering piled up by the western media over the last couples of years about this desert town in Chinese Mongolia

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China builds differently from what the west does, China tends to find a big piece of land and then will do a complete comprehensive city plan, after that will build this area up complete complete with all city facilities, houses, roads, sewers, garbage disposal, schools ,hospitals, stadiums, museums, parks..... China believes it'll save a lot of unneccesory cost in building this way.
Only after everything is completed will the government start to gradually move people in, so in the first couples of years, these new development areas do look like "ghost towns", and they become the prime targets being used by western media to smear China.

 

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Drive around the Brand New City of Ordos, Inner Mongolia. NW China​

 

[Saithan]

It's more important to explain the plan when building a new city. According to the youtube video the construction began like 6 years ago around 2015, but the city planning must have been going on for much longer.

While I think it's insane to build on such a scale inland I assume that government controlled firms, factories etc. will move in to these cities to create jobs and needs, which in return will help people make the choice of moving to these cities and begin working. But it should be done in stages while ensuring a lasting presence.

Of course it's difficult to tell from the videos if it's been done in stages, but 6 years and that many new buildings seems hasty. Then again a country of 1,4 billion may really need to have that speed. but buildings not being used will deteriorate quicker, so unless government foots the maintenance bill until everything is occupied it'd be a sad thing for the settlers.

Do you know how many vocational school graduates China has annually ?

 

[xizhimen]

It's more important to explain the plan when building a new city. According to the youtube video the construction began like 6 years ago around 2015, but the city planning must have been going on for much longer.

While I think it's insane to build on such a scale inland I assume that government controlled firms, factories etc. will move in to these cities to create jobs and needs, which in return will help people make the choice of moving to these cities and begin working. But it should be done in stages while ensuring a lasting presence.

Of course it's difficult to tell from the videos if it's been done in stages, but 6 years and that many new buildings seems hasty. Then again a country of 1,4 billion may really need to have that speed. but buildings not being used will deteriorate quicker, so unless government foots the maintenance bill until everything is occupied it'd be a sad thing for the settlers.

Do you know how many vocational school graduates China has annually ?

The city is in the middle of the Gobi Desert, you won't expect to say that it's packed with crowds like Beijing and Shanghai. check out how wonderfully the city streets and buildings are maintained and cleaned, even grass and trees are carely being taken care and trimmed constantly.

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Ordos in N China's Inner Mongolia​

 

[Saithan]

The city is in the middle of the Gobi Desert, you won't expect to say that it's packed with crowds like Beijing and Shanghai. check out how wonderfully the city streets and buildings are maintained and cleaned, even grass and trees are carely being taken care and trimmed constantly.

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Ordos in N China's Inner Mongolia​

You can’t compare the city with Beijing or Shanghai, both of those cities are close to thw coast and thus natural destined for growh. A city out in the desert must be pumped up. A bit like Las Vegas Casino town.

 

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You can’t compare the city with Beijing or Shanghai, both of those cities are close to thw coast and thus natural destined for growh. A city out in the desert must be pumped up. A bit like Las Vegas Casino town.

Yes, this is part of " Great west development" program, China's development is extremely inbalance which everything is in the east and nothing in the west, the government tries very hard to address the balance, but it will be almost a mission of impossible, people may like to travel to the western regions for a few days but very few intend to live there. Tibet and Xinjiang look like a different world comparing to China's east in development levels.