What cities in China are called ghost towns?

The ghost cities in China include:

Kangbashi, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, Qingshui River, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia,

Bayannur, Inner Mongolia,

Erenhot, Inner Mongolia,

Zhengdong New District, Zhengzhou, Henan,

Hebi, Henan,

Xinyang, Henan,

Yingkou, Liaoning,

Changzhou, Jiangsu,

Dantu, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu,

Shiyan, Hubei,

Chenggong, Yunnan.

Ghost town definition:

A ghost town is an empty city built by the local government with a lot of money. It refers to a city that has been depleted of resources and abandoned. It is a geographical term. Where the vacancy rate is too high, there are few people living in it, and it is dark at night, it will be vividly called a "ghost town".

Current situation of ghost towns:

Behind ghost towns and empty cities, how much is impulse, how much is face, how much is interest, how much is political achievements, these issues are all related to the development of these cities. The future is the same – unknown.

Many of our city managers are willing to talk a lot about real estate, industry, and finance. Statistics show that in 2009, China’s real estate investment accounted for 10% of the GDP, while in 2007 is 8%. At the peak of Japan's bubble, the value never exceeded 9%; in the United States, it never exceeded 6%. This has led to international evaluations: China consumes more steel, iron ore and cement per capita than any other industrial country in history. All this will lead to unprofitable railways, unmanned roads, and uninhabited cities.

The future of ghost towns:

From a regional perspective, the lack of supporting functions in most "ghost towns" is mainly due to two situations: insufficient absolute size and relative uneven distribution. The absolute lack of volume makes the construction volume of basic commercial, public services, municipal and other supporting facilities within the entire "ghost town" planning scope disproportionate to the construction volume of the leading functions of the new town such as residence, commerce, and industry. The volume of supporting facilities It is common to see significant lags behind the construction volume of leading features.

Coincidentally, even if the total amount of internal supporting measures in the "ghost town" can meet the use needs of the planned population introduction, when planning the new town's zoning land, most design units fail to reasonably determine the construction location of supporting facilities. , resulting in the unreasonable phenomenon that similar supporting facilities are too densely distributed in some locations in the "ghost town", while other locations are in short supply. Regardless of the type of lack of supporting facilities, it will destroy the livable function of the "ghost town" and reduce the overall operational efficiency of the "ghost town", which will hinder the introduction of the "ghost town" population and make it more difficult to attract investment in the future. It only increases the difficulty of resurrection in "Ghost Town".

The biggest problem is that it is difficult to achieve a balanced population structure. "The three obvious shortcomings everywhere reveal the realistic dilemma that the population structure in ghost towns is difficult to achieve equilibrium, which will inevitably affect the efficiency and quality of ghost town resurrection." Due to the excessive homogenization of the population, the social structure is fragile and the tidal phenomenon of groups with specific needs is Future transportation and employment problems, as well as excessive differentiation in socioeconomic status of the population may block population inflow, and are considered to be the three most prominent flaws in the demographic structure of most "ghost towns" at present.