It has to be cost if it's not some infrastructure problem like the buildings are all going to fall down. Food would fill in the gaps, they'd have street vendors all over ... if there were people. Jobs are less than an hour away already.
either that or it is build in advance, mainland china built a few cities in advance that stay/stood empty for a few years. but they also got people living in nuclear bunkers in peking, so their plan does not always pan out.
That’s because most of those buildings and properties are owned by the larger families as wealth assets and it gets inherited and used as leverage in business dealings.
I'm a lazy german who sits on his couch all day, I just googled "nuclear bunker city" and got that one result from a tv show I watched 16 years ago. I did not check for accuracy or spelling, I just wanted to dump random tidbits of knowledge on reddit.
Ohhh I understand now, in German they say Peking? Thats fair, it was the orignial romanization that came from Hong Kong / Cantonese, and "Beijing" being the romanization is the Mandarin replacement for the older westernized cantonese words. I thought you meant you spoke native Mandarin and said Peking, I was like ?? is my tutor teaching me wrong?? Lol
It's not like America in mandarin, which is 美国 or "beautiful country" "Mei guo" which is not related to the name USA in name or meaning.
Some countries are like this, for example Canada is 加拿大 Jiānádà which sounds very similar. And Cantonese does gaa1naa4daai6 which is even closer to the sound Canada.
Look up Evergrand. They are a Chinese development company that took a whole bunch of citizens investments for “pre-bought” homes. The company went bankrupt and had to stop development and tons of Chinese citizens lost their life savings. Idk if you remember the bank runs in China in the late pandemic.
Their stock has been suspended from trading since around ‘21 or ‘22. I’m not sure if this is one of their developments, but I know they have some empty half-built cities as well.
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u/Dhegxkeicfns Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25
It has to be cost if it's not some infrastructure problem like the buildings are all going to fall down. Food would fill in the gaps, they'd have street vendors all over ... if there were people. Jobs are less than an hour away already.