I was gonna say I’m surprised they aren’t used as movie sets.

Because china has complex rules

Well they aren’t going to let foreigners in because that’s let’s the outside world see failure. And I guess the Chinese filmmakers do it because that’s admitting failure to their own people.

@@markfaraday9204 Commie China has a complex?

My god, they have an abandoned Paris, Manhattan, London….it’s screaming for movies.

Yes that's exactly right. The earth will begin to reclaim what is not maintained

Serves them Right for always striving for World Domination 😂😂

I can’t imagine how much trillions worth of maintenance of these ghost cities to function ...

Exactly what I was thinking!!!🙏🤔

Those developers do not even have money to pay the banks.

WHY the hell would you? You might say you like the peace and quite but I am sure the novelty wouyld wear off fairly quick. No stores, no gas stations, no restaurants, no friends or neighbors to chill or at least talk too. Sure, you can talk or video on the phone, but its a lousy substitute. More likely than not, you will end up like that dude from the movie "The Shining"

Brave of you to assume people who want to live alone have friends.

@@zolombox1779 Facts

Even if you have no friends, you still need to have access to basic amenities to survive. There are those that can survive with some land for a personal garden and some farm animals, but that would be pretty tough in a concrete jungle ghost town. where you gonna get groceries? Would you even be able to get internet? would cellphone work? Depends on how far away you are from the next populated town, or at least some kind of store. with no subway or public transportation, if you don't have a personal vehicle, riding a bike or as a last resort, walking could take days.

@@tluzanov All of those activities involve interacting with people. I stand strong with my original comment. I'll cave-man it and eat dirt and wipe with my hand.

tbh i was impressed how fast they build highways, over 8 000km in 1 year..... Corrupted MF's in my country take years to repair few kilometers, we have build 1200km of highways in 60 years.

@@doposud problem is this is corrupt just in a different way

@@doposud its definitaly terrible working conditions

I know why but nobody will listen to what I have to say.

你应该问问你自己，为何你认为空着的房子，而街上却那么多人

Right?! Not many students study in London cos of the high cost of living.

They’d need to import millions of packies and darkeys to do that. But I don’t think they’re stupid enough to want to replicate London THAT much 😅

They don't care they are rich because of the united States

all i can think of why they do this is to create the illusion of a booming echonomy whilse scaming foregin investors to invest in these properties. the most likelyhood is that investting in property is a gret way to use as white washing mony.

That's communist China for ya 🤷‍♂️

That's not gonna decaying, it's still standing strong. It's only occupied in the future

I just have a fear of living in giant buildings...I fear that I may die in a fire, earthquake, or poor construction causing it to collapsed...so I would never buy one

omg yesss

@@progo8156 Explore those unfinished apartments for a whole week? Doubt it. Although some apartments are almost done, maybe 90%, but most are completed anywhere from 50% down to 10%, meaning just a bare naked concrete structure. If you go to one of those ghost cities, just check out the apartments on a single floor in one building, and boom, you know what the rest of the 50,000 apartment units look like.

Apparently they are bare, because furnishings actually lower the value of the units. A youtuber name scarpenza (i think that's how you spell his name?) did a video on it once.

There is a video by yes theory where they go to the paris one and they give you a current inside of the city and its people

its concrete floors and walls

Looks great for post apocalyptic setting

去那里看看，你会发现为什么

The Chinese government does not allow the filming of anything that makes their totalitarian regime look bad. They know their property sector is a house of cards and are trying to hide this fact.

The buildings generally have no running water. And they're made using substandard materials, and the hookups for water in case of fire are never completed. Lookup "tofu dreg construction" and "ghost cities" videos.

​@@user-bc3ir7jg5kwhat happend? Can explain?

How was the bike ride? Sounds amazing

Under China's non-compliance business laws, corruption of officials at all levels and loopholes in bank loans, building a house itself is a business that can make money without capital. Every building under construction is already a money tree If it can be completed and sold, it will be a A bigger and more perfect money tree; developing real estate in China is just a way for a group of people to make big money together, and has little to do with the real concept of developing real estate ; There are currently 2 billion residential units in China (already existing and under construction), which means that each Chinese can be allocated 1.2 units, or each standard family can have 3.5 units of housing. . . How happy?

@@hannnu5855 Yeah, and the only people who lose are the people getting scammed into buying a worthless property for far above market value (which in many of these buildings is basically 0 or negative). Everyone else, meanwhile, from the developer, to builder to financer, already made off with money. This reminds me of Japan's corrupt and terrible banking laws that basically tanked their economy for 30 years in which they still haven't recovered from.

Classic example of a Communist government ignoring the natural laws of supply and demand. You can be sure a lot of corrupt bureaucrats and their relatives are making a fortune from these useless projects.

You rode bicycle across China when all Chinese are travelling with high speed train and electric cars. Why are you so poor?

capitalism, that's why. the corporate developer collects money from people and builds. they don't really care if anyone lives there or not. they got their money, that's all the care about.

@@CoolGobyFish They literally have a socialist country. The government makes the rules, so why do they allow it in this case?

@@trashyraccoon2615 nothing socialist abut them despite their name. their corporations ran amok as well. Cuba and Korea are the only ones with the real socialist economy

@@CoolGobyFish Gotcha. Good call

@@CoolGobyFish So you know literally nothing about China and socialism, good on you for making it so obvious

Its because they are owned by investors who bought at a markup from the developer, they need to sell at current price to turn a profit.

Because Chinese people are very wicked and very selfish.

That’s the issue with even semi planned economies. The supply comes before the demand, and that supply just kinda exists on the hope someone will want it eventually. No market research or understanding it’s actually… wanted in the first place before it’s actually constructed

@@exelenxius5832 "they need to sell at current price to turn a profit." Alright, but how's that going to happen if the value of their property keeps falling due to neglect and decay?

They don't think like humans

Love how US keep projecting their own banking collapse pain onto China 😂 China doesnt have unregulated sub prime mortgage problem like the US. Worse they will experience is only a cycle of real estate slow down. US news and hater political analysts been predicting China bubble collapse for almost 3 decades now but nothing so far 😂 Remeber that Evergreen story that all the western news were ao sure and saying China economy collapsing in few months lol. It's been like 2 years now. Where's the collapse? Even a dead clock is right twice a day. At this point US haters will keep repeating their narrative for years and years till there's finally some recession cycle and they would call it a " prediction" 😂

You will be disappointed 😂

@@trevorsmith2793how?

there are 65 million empty residential units, not counting the commercial ones. I read that in some cities, it will take as long as 6 yrs to fully occupy them.

@@trevorsmith2793 Do your Maths, 1 child, 1 set of parents, 2 sets of grandparents. when the child got married, the couple already inherit 6 houses. Besides, their population is declining.

The craziest part is that the world bought chinas bullcrap about them having 1.4 billion people. They lied about it, just like they do with their GDP and everything else in their country. China imports most of its food since most of the country is hard to farm on and some is even not possible to farm. So they import tons of their food yet around the mid 2000s before the great recession they slowed their imports of food down while at the same time claiming their population had actually grown? So what? They all started to learn to not eat? How is that even possible if your population growns so should your food imports but they decreased while at the same time their in house faming was replaced by imports why? Because they've been lying about their population size for a long time and soon it will come to bite them in the ass when suddenly there are most old people who need money to eat and not enough young people to tax to feed them.

Yeah fascinating and scary at the same time.

I bet it'd be fun if it wasn't china where the government would probably institutionalize you if they catch you roaming somewhere you shouldn't be with their billion + cameras.

They probably don't have many lights on at night, so there wouldn't be much to see. They don't even have windows and doors.

@@Roonasaur ... Poor quality of life for being number 2 of the world.

It's shameless propaganda

... Some people seem to not know this, so naive. ........

I think this is the perfect example/explanation to the issues going on in china. They keep building these huge sprawling buildings with all this stuff...and assume people would've just come running cash in hand. Sadly it takes years to fill city's of that size and it's crazy to assume a million people in your country have enough disposable income to justify moving down the road.

@@minxironwood People have come running, cash in hand. These are now filled with people.

@@kristoffer3000 being that I was recently in china doing some urban exploration and traveling through some of these city's...gonna have to say that's total bs lol

@@kristoffer3000 unless your trying to saying about half a million people decided to suddenly move, two weeks after I leave the country lol

@@minxironwood lmao, sure you did, buddy. Actually, I was there as well, think I saw you walking around hahahaha

Imagine what all that money REALLY went towards. These are just covers.

@@2.Plus.2.Equals.5 政府并没有花钱，失败的是房地产商和投资者。政府通过土地出售挣钱，当然，修建基础设施是花钱了。

i yelled "HOLY SHIT!" when he said that

It’s the truth just the 300 million live mostly in rural areas they build illegal makeshift mud houses on land that’s not theirs with no plumbing and running water, no gas it’s the same as homeless

It's not even as high as 3 mill

The homeless population of the United States is around 500,000, with a total population of around of 330 million. If China's homeless population was as bad as the United States', it might be around 10 million, based on a population of 1 billion.

It's speculation. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

They are just empty shells as well, since the owners modify to their tastes, and it is better to move into a place no one has lived in for some reason. So, to maintain the value of the investment they stay as empty concrete boxes. No one will want to move in because who wants to live in an appartment surrounded by empty concrete boxes? And since the critical mass for the buildings to become livable is never reached, they stay empty.

Jobs, affordability and convenience are lacking. So no population migration.

The chinese people idea of investments is buying apartments or real state. that is hwy you have buildings still under construction and every unit is already sold.

​@@rap3208 It's not an investment if you can never sell it!

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it's not getting better

i'm from toledo, ohio - smack in the middle of the rust belt. visited baltimore last year after a few years living on the east coast. seeing the empty streets downtown made me feel like i was visiting home.

Also from Baltimore. Live in the county now, but it is very eerie seeing what’s left of the city

you dont live in a ghost city you live in a hood,all the fancy white shit is now moving out and its all cause you capped for a fent addict and threw a innocent cop in jail for it. yall wouldnt stop robbin and now cause anyone with more than 2 cents has moved out so have the nice companies who are also sick of being robbed too.

... But they are shown in series of splendid double digits of G.D.P.

Stop lying!

@@glenwjohnson80950 cents have been deposited into your account

good point thank you

@@glenwjohnson809 well he ain't lying pal.

@@zachhanson6575 bro, the whole world knows that China has the largest population so, it needs adequate infrastructures for that, I very surprised u guys don't understand that.

New Orleans is turning into a ghost town... Too much crime. Bourbon street the only thing keeping it..

No this is far different

Economics is bullshit

@@bozoclown99 explain...

Print money created project..peoples have the money to spend...no inflation..because spend on real job. This is my personal opinion.

@@CrucialConflict. cus china is bad brooo

Exactly!!!!!!

Yeah, it's so weird isn't it? It feels so out of place.

Tbh i’d rather live in fake chinese paris than negger-infested French Paris. Diversity has destroyed that nation

​@@jordanxfileThe same way fake chinatown in western country feels out of place, so not to an extent that no one will want to live in it

Is all greedy..

these are Tofu dreg buildings made with cheap material that should not be used with construction to save costs, it's very dangerous to live in these buildings because for example, rain could happen and the buildings with suddenly collapse

Tofu Dreg

Defective concrete... How?

@@Vordigon1 to much water, not enough water, to much agg, not enough agg, theres a mulitude of things that could go wrong just from the concret truck driver taken to long to get there, or the guy driven the truck put to much water in the barrel of the truck, i mean it could be a lot of things.

People quoting Serpentza like he is some expert haha. You losers in the west only hear what you want to hear.

@@Vordigon1 It is naked, not coated with paint, the moisture gonna erodes concrete day by day. Ivy, fungus, and some plants enjoy clinging with abandoned buildings. ... They usually collect or gather water in the air, vapor or moisture, that are unfriendly for concrete. .......

the worst part is they are so poorly constructed that they'd probably just collapse if people actually started to live in them.

... It does not matter, China has almost 1.5 billion people. Who will give a dime. .....

@@jebes909090 So why hasn't that happened seeing as these are now all inhabited?

@@kristoffer3000 except they arent

@@jebes909090 Google it and come back to me, liar

It empty but maybe it was sold so this empty building has owners

I'M I Ontario, what area or region are you talking about?

@@ianstuart5660 Townsend is just outside Jarvis, ON in Haldimand County, south of Hamilton.

@@richardhorlings3774 Got it, thanks very much!

They're trying to do the same thing with Grimsby now, converting a bunch of farmers' fields into a city. The Greater Hamilton Area is a strange place, man...

Hi from Switzerland 🇨🇭. We swiss don't like to build like in China. Thanks God. This is all greedy chains..

100% propaganda but okay lol

@kristoffer3000 didn't say it wasn't bruh, It's just cool to see an empty ass town made by a government that can easily offer cheap housing and not blink twice but they don't

@@from9126 Housing in China is very affordable actually

@@kristoffer3000 Please tell us the truth chinese bot

@@from9126 Look up Chinese home ownership rates, they do offer cheap housing...

Problem is lack of jobs. And you can't start a business there as you won't get any customers

SO SORRY & THAT'S HORRIBLE . . . DON'T THEY WANT TO MAKE A PROFIT? THERE IS SOMETHING VERY SHADY ABOUT THIS . . . THEY HAVE TO BE INCENTIVISED IN ORDER TO SPEND THE MONEY TO BUILD OR REMODEL? IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE!

​@@SandraAnnEvans Like the video explained. The only reason they do it is because the government doesn't allow them to invest in proper investment options. So they tie up their excess capital in fruitless projects like this to protect their monet. Same thing in America, to many regulations and quotas to meet to be allowed to work in fruitful projects on the side.

FL has this happening in spades. We have empty, move in ready houses, condo complexes, ect, that investors are just... sitting on. It's called buy-and-leave (dunno if California calls it something else). They do it to create artificial scarcity in the housing market while at the same time increasing their portfolio worth, because they can get loans against the estimated value of their assets. It's why they'll never sell these places, and renting them out just means they're competing against *themselves* in a tight housing market which will halt the astronomical (40% year over year average, 300% since 2018) price hikes. It's not that they can't sell these houses/condos even at astronomical prices (the northerners will still eat that shit up and call it a good deal), but that doing so would be actively detrimental to their ability to get loans and price set rents, so they won't.

Some propaganda never dies.

Naaaaaaaaaah

Nope

German, Italian spelling is also atrocious in many contexts. Engrish is always present, as usual.

Yeah, that was funny and gauges everything else portrayed.

The guy did a video on China and couldn’t pronounce Kunming. The K isn’t silent 😂

This free movie theme park

This they have done, along with other foreigners or newly seeded generations in San Francisco.

In China, you cannot buy more than two property for one family.

I believe some area are like that. I remember seeing documentary where highrise with 100+ units only have 2% occupation

Usually there a small handful of people living in some buildings. It’s like those almost dead towns that happened more organically elsewhere in the world after and economic boom usually gold/oil etc passed. And unlike them the property value doesn’t go down. Everyone has to get their services and goods from somewhere else. Well it’s the perfect place for a hermit.

Occupancy rate will say it is a ghost town or not? ....

There are people living there. It is just that they are distant from their jobs so the rate of occupancy is not that fast. But still, what they don't tell you is that it is hard for a city to grow a million people bigger. new York took about 20 years to grow to the peak population in 2019 and then the population promptly went down again at the onset of the covid pandemic. Houston took about 14-15 years to grow a million bigger but it was a boomtown. In China, their biggest cities at the peak of their growth, some became a half million to more than a million bigger in a year. These cities, they showed in the video are from years back. today, they have a few hundred thousands living in them. It just won't show because the cities were built for a million or two. but if you would calculate, they have a faster rate of growth compared to american cities.

Most so called ghost cities aren't ghost cities for long. Some are illegal projects that are demolished by the city officials. And a small fraction of them are just bad investments.

It's all bought but not occupied.

I don't know about China, but in Japan, this is just the culture. Buildings aren't meant to last super long times and Japanese accept this so they don't really care on maintaining something that they will demolish for something newer down the line. It's actually pretty cool (unless you live in one of these buildings) because they can tear down old trash without the pretense of "saving muh culture"

No, you are not. Please don’t make a lie. You are talking about wooden construction with polyurethane sheets which is typically American building. Chinese building never ever uses wood + polyurethane as construction materials. Only concrete, or brick, that’s it

@@user-CNMD-FLG.FanZei.ZhiChu You must be another of winnie the poo's official propagandists. Search for tofu-dreg construction - makes for a good laugh. You'll find regular occurrences of rebar made of 'pot metal' and painted bamboo, concrete made up of mud and sand. *New* apartment buildings constantly falling apart or collapsing and China hides the true numbers of casualties. Some of these tall structures collapse exposing a complete lack of rebar, and where there should be thick concrete beams - there are only piles of sand. Can you imagine what will happen to the three gorges dam when the sub-standard materials degrade a little further? Satellite imagery proved the dam was warping a few years ago. What did China do to fix this problem? They prohibited further satellite imagery. Now get back to enjoying your food cooked in gutter oil...

I lived in China for ten years and was always blown away by ghost developments and shoddy construction.

This is typical of a economy run by Socialist bureaucrats. There are no safety standards or building codes because there is no healthy competition. I would like to see the balance sheets of these projects - cost vs. profits to the bureaucrats.

... Western styles are mesmerizing for people all across the world, but Muslim. ........

"Might be more than that"!!!

Chinese investors drove up California real estate prices trifold. They offered immediately a hundred thousand dollars more in cash than the asking price was. Californians didn't have $1.5 million for a 3-bedroom house in San Francisco.

Google these cities, they're not ghost cities anymore. Almost like you're just not very intelligent lol

鬼城是有但数量并不多，这里很多信息完全不正确，很多建筑还没完工怎么会有人住呢，上海松江的泰晤士小镇现在游客很多的

It never was a ghost city

True about most of these places other than Shanghai

It doesn't, you are being manipulated.

"Everything you see on youtube, movies and internet are true!" - Abraham Lincoln

You should say "This video was a shock", and try to find the truth outside of this video.

KZfaq doesn't allow outside links, but just google "The myth of China’s ghost cities by Wade Shepard". It's a report by Reuters, the international news agency. This myth of China building ghost cities has been milked for all its worth for years by people like this video uploader to fool the gullible

I 100% trust a black guy with cyborg eyes.

China is rich on the illegal drug industry.

They have enough traditional architecture

same problem with Dubai. Instead of building traditional Arab cities, they chose to put up a bunch of American highrises, totally unsuited to high temp desert living.

Traditional architecture if not done well can be really tacky, and it is really expensive to build.