{"id":775,"date":"2014-10-28T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=771"},"modified":"2014-10-28T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:00:15","slug":"china-ghost-town-index-here-are-chinas-10-ghastliest-cities-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"China “Ghost Town Index” – Here Are China’s 10 “Ghastliest” Cities | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

China “Ghost Town Index” – Here Are China’s 10 “Ghastliest” Cities | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who can forget China’s\u00a0ghost city of Ordos<\/a>: back in late 2009, when the hollow shell behind China’s torrid growth was first revealed to the world, the city near China’s Mongolia border was cooler talk for weeks. Fast forward five years later, and Ordos is all but forgotten, having been eclipsed by a veritable army of much bigger “ghosts” that make up the “ghost town network” – a list of cities created by the China Investment Network, a business newspaper in Beijing, to determine which cities were the most ghostly.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Caixin reports<\/a>, the newspaper devised its index using a government standard that says cities should have 10,000 people per square kilometer. The editors at China Investment Network determined that if a city’s ratio of people to area was 0.5 \u2013 that is, it was half full \u2013 then it is a ghost town. To take the example a step further, if a city had a ratio of .10, then it had one-tenth the population the government thought it deserved. Based on this approach,\u00a0at least 50 Chinese cities fit the description of “ghost town<\/strong>.” The large city of Weihai, in the eastern province of Shandong, and the tourist destination of Sanya, in the south’s Hainan Province, were among China’s emptiest.<\/p>\n

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China “Ghost Town Index” – Here Are China’s 10 “Ghastliest” Cities | Zero Hedge. Who can forget China’s\u00a0ghost city of Ordos: back in late 2009, when the hollow shell behind China’s torrid growth was first revealed to the world, the city near China’s Mongolia border was cooler talk for weeks. Fast forward five years later, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[130,132,361,498],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-china","tag-china-growth","tag-ghost-town","tag-malinvestment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}