China is trying to create viable cities for its world's-largest rural-to-urban migrants who numbe in the hundreds of millions. It wants to avoid the slums of other developing countries like India and Brazil. So China's government has moved thousands of people to cities and also built new "ghost cities" for future migrants. But unfortunately a) nobody lives in many of the new cities and b) of the cities people have moved into many are busted--poor quality construction, lack of jobs. In other words, they're Made in China. The old villages people lived in are being "gutted and demolished."
China's ghost cities - Australian 60 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ZsVUB_-qg
New China Cities: Shoddy Homes, Broken Hope
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/world/asia/new-china-cities-shoddy-homes-broken-hope.html?_r=0
-"These buildings look modern on the outside, but they're not. It's the worst quality."
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