In the past 50 years, China has built around 500 new cities. The country’s sprawling new urban areas have been instrumental to its economic surge, but it’s not all rosy. In fact, a lot of ...

Despite the influx of rural transplants, “ghost cities,” or vastly underdeveloped and unoccupied cities throughout China, are emerging across the country.

China is an unrivalled powerhouse in the global economy. For the last three decades, its growth has outpaced that of all other nations.

The locations of the infamous empty housing complexes have been secret, but ghost city hunters are now using smartphones and GPS receivers to track them down.

It's been a couple of years since we initially looked at the "ghost cities" of China. At that time, there was a feeling that the development just couldn't go on forever. Well, maybe not forever ...

SBS Dateline, an Australian Television Program, reveals the dark side of the Construction Industry in China:* More Empty Cities - they are not just in ...

China Law Blog has a guest post by Dirk Chilcote who had lived in Zhenzhou for 3 years. He is skeptical of western media's report on China's ghost cities: In my three years living and working in the ...