A Chinese Ghost Story

China's most famous ghost city on the outskirts of ORDOS has been empty for years

CHENGGONG is building skyscrapers by the hundreds

CHENGGONG already has 100,000 new apartments with no occupants

Dozens of new developments in JIANGSU with nary a car

Brand new, empty houses outside JIANGSU

Expensive lakeside condos in QIANDAOHU were bought by speculators. No one lives there

Here's one of the giant empty developments outside CHANGSHA

ERENHOT was built in the middle of a desert in Inner Mongolia. Half of ERENHOT is empty, the other half is unfinished

No cars in the north-east of the Xinyang except for around 100 clustered around the government headquarters

The city of DANTU has been mostly empty for over a decade

The mostly empty city of BAYANNAO'ER, which boasts a beautiful town hall and World Bank-sponsored water reclamation building

Finally, here's a picture of the unprecedentedly huge NEW SOUTH CHINA MALL -- which has been 99% empty since 2005