Detroit clones cropping up around China
From wantchinatimes.com
The path of bankruptcy which crippled the once booming industrial city of Detroit is now being followed by certain cities in China. These cities, such as Ordos and Wenzhou, develop rapidly without considering market demand and become "ghost towns," according to the China Securities Journal. The difference between Detroit and ghost towns in China, said Yang Shaofong, chairman of Chinese property developer Conworld, is that the latter will never go bankrupt because Beijing will always bail them out through policy support. Many of the ghost towns are actually already bankrupt. The cities, much like Detroit, are ...
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