Showing posts with label Ordos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ordos. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China


17 March 2012 

Empty apartment blocks, Ordos, Inner Mongolia
In Inner Mongolia a new city stands largely empty. This city, Ordos, suggests that the great Chinese building boom, which did so much to fuel the country's astonishing economic growth, is over. Is a bubble about to burst?