Old article, but thought it was worth posting seeing as I was just in Zhengzhou last weekend and passed right through what Ive seen referred to as a ghost city by some Western media. Not all of this mushrooming development in China is a white elephant. The other often referenced example of a ghost city is Ordos, in the middle of a desert, a minor coal-mining city, few universities, no international airport, no-high-speed rail lines and a sparsely populated hinterland of a couple of million. Zhengzhou Ghost City on the other hand is part of an existing provincial capital of 4 million or so people, at the intersection of two high-speed rail lines and many motorways. It has lots of universities, an educated workforce, an airport which has opened routes to France & Germany, a hinterland population of perhaps 200 million people, including about 15 other cities of 1-2 million within an hours travel, and is the terminus of the recently completed Eurasian overland freight route linking China with Europe as an alternative to sea transportation, enabling the Made in China manufacturing phenomenon to re-locate there. Ordos it is not. newgeography/content/002159-zhengzhou-ghost-city-alive
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:19:16 +0000
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