{"id":57990,"date":"2018-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardvanhooijdonk.com\/blog\/the-truth-about-chinas-futuristic-ghost-cities\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T22:15:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:15:37","slug":"the-truth-about-chinas-futuristic-ghost-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/en\/the-truth-about-chinas-futuristic-ghost-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about China&#8217;s futuristic ghost cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"bold-list\">\n<li>How China\u2019s ghost cities came to be<\/li>\n<li>Are they really as empty as they seem?<\/li>\n<li>The population of the so-called ghost cities is starting to increase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably heard the story of China\u2019s ghost cities: vast, sprawling, futuristic metropolises built in the middle of nowhere that nobody actually lives in. Imagine the set of The Walking Dead and you might get the idea. Or, at least, that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been led to believe. In reality, those reports have been vastly exaggerated, and the cities described in them are far from empty. Yes, they\u2019re certainly underpopulated, but there\u2019s a very good explanation for it &#8211; they\u2019re brand spanking new!<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The truth about China&#039;s futuristic ghost cities\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mIY5iGedk54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The cities in question are the product of the Chinese government\u2019s great urbanisation plan that originated in the early 1980s and sought to relocate hundreds of millions of the country\u2019s rural inhabitants to cities to fuel economic growth. At the time, China\u2019s population was predominantly rural, with only 180 million people living in cities. Over the next couple of decades, hundreds of new cities have been built all over China, nudging the country on its way to becoming an urbanised nation. There was only one problem &#8211; getting people to actually go and live there turned out to be much more difficult than anticipated.<\/p>\n<h2>How China\u2019s ghost cities came to be<\/h2>\n<p>Historically, there\u2019s always been a natural reason for building a city in a particular location, whether it\u2019s proximity to a water source, fertile land, mineral deposits, or simple geography. Over time, that city would expand almost organically, increasing in size to accommodate its growing population. However, China decided to do things a little bit differently and just build the cities in these locations even if there was no logical reason for them to be there. They were guided by the idea that once the cities were built, people would come on their own.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30533\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30533 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/China\u2019s-ghost-citiesknnjnj.jpg\" alt=\"Zebra crossing and empty high-rise buildings\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historically, there\u2019s always been a natural reason for building a city in a particular location, whether it\u2019s proximity to a water source, fertile land, mineral deposits, or simple geography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCities and districts built without demand or necessity resulted in what some Chinese scholars have termed, literally, &#8216;walls without markets&#8217;,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/02\/kai-caemmerer-unborn-cities\/\">says<\/a> William Hurst, a political science professor at Northwestern University. \u201cOr what we might translate as uncompleted or hollow cities. Political exigency and investment hysteria trumped economic calculus or consideration of genuine human needs.\u201d This created a real catch-22. The people didn\u2019t want to move to areas that lacked basic public services like healthcare, schools, transportation, and shopping centres, while the local governments were reluctant to build the necessary infrastructure until there were enough people already living there to justify the costs. But things are slowly starting to change.<\/p>\n<h2>Are they really as empty as they seem?<\/h2>\n<p>In 2015, the Chicago-based photographer Kai Caemmerer decided to see for himself what all the fuss was about and pay some of these cities a visit. What he encountered there was not at all what he expected. \u201cI was originally inspired by some of the (almost sensationalist) reports and articles that I had read about the new &#8216;ghost cities of China,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/fotoroom.co\/unborn-cities-kai-caemmerer\/\">says<\/a> Caemmerer. \u201cDigging a little bit deeper, it became fairly clear that many of these &#8216;ghost cities&#8217; were not at all abandoned or defunct, as they had been depicted, but rather just very new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"China\u2019s Insane Plan to Build Super Megacities\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NmIs63G4IrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Caemmerer spent about three months exploring three of the so-called ghost cities: the Kangbashi District of Ordos, the Yujiapu Financial District in the Binhai New Area near Tainjin, and the Meixi Lake City near Changsha. Kangbashi, for example, has around 100,000 inhabitants today. Although it was originally designed to hold 500,000 and does feel rather empty at times, you can hardly call a city with 100,000 people living in it a ghost city!<\/p>\n<h2>The population of the so-called ghost cities is starting to increase<\/h2>\n<p>Established in 1993 and located east of the Huangpu River, Pudong is probably the most successful example of a former ghost city. Once the laughing stock of the entire country when it was filled with empty skyscrapers, the Pudong financial district is now a vibrant financial centre and home to some of the largest and most distinguished financial institutions and companies in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/wadeshepard\/2018\/03\/19\/ghost-towns-or-boomtowns-what-new-cities-really-become\/#14c4b72c5e3f\">boasting<\/a> 99 per cent occupancy rates. It\u2019s also the most populous district in Shanghai, with more than 5 million inhabitants. Other so-called ghost cities have experienced a similar change of fortune. <a href=\"http:\/\/europe.chinadaily.com.cn\/epaper\/2015-07\/03\/content_21169332.htm\">According<\/a> to a report published by Standard Chartered, the occupancy rate of Zhengdong New District has doubled from 2012 to 2014, while the population of Zhenjiang&#8217;s Dantu quadrupled over the same period. Changzhou&#8217;s Wujin district has also seen its occupancy rate increase from 20 to 50 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>While most of these so-called ghost <a href=\"https:\/\/richardvanhooijdonk.com\/keynote\/trends-2040-ben-jij-er-klaar-voor\/\">cities<\/a> have failed to live up to their original promise, very few of them have actually failed completely and are hardly deserving of the nickname that\u2019s been assigned to them. They may have to go back to the drawing board and set some more realistic goals. Most of them should become fully functioning cities eventually. All they need is a little more time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How China\u2019s ghost cities came to be Are they really as empty as they seem? The population of the so-called ghost cities is starting to increase You\u2019ve probably heard the story of China\u2019s ghost cities: vast, sprawling, futuristic metropolises built in the middle of nowhere that nobody actually lives in. 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