China's Empty City

[Jedi Ninja]

The interesting bit begins at 1:10.

[worth]

That is incredible. Smart idea, if you are always building, you're stimulating the economy by paying workers and keeping jobs, making companies busy and therefore increasing GDP, but then it's kind of a backwards way to do things.

We always build infrastructure in reactionary ways. City grows > build more roads. Here they've done the opposite. Kind of tough for people to move there though. Whose going to open a store there if nobody lives there? Why would that guy want to open a restaurant there if there's no one around to eat in it. Why would someone move there if they can't get a job?

Very intriguing.

[FurnaceFace]

From some of the stuff I had read about China before the Olympics where they shut down industry, displaced people as required etc I'm surprised they haven't "forced" people to move into the new city. It's a very interesting culture with what appears to be insane amounts of money. Perhaps they could find a couple of billion in their sofa cushions and hand it to us. Think of all the interchanges we could build.