Ordos City China Ghost Cities
In the early 2000s chinese government officials poured over 1 billion into the development of the city several miles south of ordos in inner mongolia.
Ordos city china ghost cities. Built for over a million people the city of ordos was designed to be the crowning glory of inner mongolia. Earning ordos the title of china s ghost city. In 2009 al jeezera put ordos kangbashi and china s ghost cities in front of the world for the first time. It was in ordos kangbashi in fact that the chinese ghost city narrative was born.
Doomed to incompletion however this futuristic metropolis now rises empty out of the deserts of northern china only 2 of its buildings were ever filled. The rest has largely been left to decay abandoned mid construction earning ordos the title of china s ghost city. Ghost cities ordos china cities. Ten years later ordos new town is an empty new city.
The fact of the matter is that ordos is a prefecture level city that has a population in excess of two million. And it is merely the most spectacular example of a new chinese phenomenon in many cities unsold flats unlet shops empty office blocks. Built for over a million people the city of ordos was designed to be the crowning glory of inner mongolia.