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, but ...

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 these new ...

Two seemingly contradictory realities co-exist in China: on one hand, Chinese cities are overpopulated, while on the other hand, there are also empty cities and tall skyscrapers almost entirely ...

Over the years, Srinivasan has articulated his own political philosophy, which he calls “the network state ” movement—an ...

China’s property crisis is expected to worsen as new home sales plummet and indebted developers struggle to find funds to complete projects. WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng traveled to an abandoned “ghost town” ...

As Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang settle into China’s twin thrones, as president and premier respectively of the world’s second largest economy, a word is on everyone’s lips: urbanization. Everywhere you ...

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 ...

China has introduced a comprehensive policy aimed at developing cities with an enhanced quality of life by 2035. This ...