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China's Ghost Cities: The truth behind the empty megacities (walking dead community) - C C - Jun 30, 2023
https://youtu.be/mt-Pa5s5zZI
INTRO: The skyscrapers are empty, the streets are without traffic, and a chilling silence emanates throughout the area. These are the scenes of China’s ghost cities.
These streets resemble abandoned or evacuated cities from a zombie or nuclear apocalypse movie. But nobody even lived here in the first place.
China’s economic plan to build into oblivion has transformed it into the world’s second biggest economy in a short space of time. But do these empty cities show the ugly side of this economic boom? Let’s take a look.