It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.
Construction in China continues to boom at a rapid pace, even without 3D printers that can print a skyscraper in just 19 days. “From shopping malls to soccer stadiums, hundreds of new cities in China ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we all need to get along to ensure compute for all, but warns on threat of Anthropic Mythos.
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 ...
Huawei's Luxury EV Is Now Outselling Porsche, Mercedes, and BMW Combined in China. Here's the System That Made It Possible. Huawei's Maextro S800, a luxury sedan launched in May 2025 for around ...
It's been a couple of years since we initially looked at the "ghost cities" of China. At that time, there was a feeling that the development just couldn't go on forever. Well, maybe not forever, but ...
OMA's Rem Koolhaas recently sat down with the WorldPost to discuss urbanization trends in China. He addressed China's plans to create "mega-urban" clusters in rural areas. This measure, he said, is ...
China Law Blog has a guest post by Dirk Chilcote who had lived in Zhenzhou for 3 years. He is skeptical of western media's report on China's ghost cities: In my three years living and working in the ...
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