‘Ghost Cities’… Who is Building Them? Why and for Who?

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Shocking photographs reveal towns completely devoid of people…
Why is China constructing large, well-designed “ghost cities” that are completely devoid of people?… Now, the BBC reports a giant new Chinese-built city has been spotted in Africa in the outskirts of Angola’s capital Luanda. ~ Chelsea Schilling – Photos

The city, Nova Cidade de Kilamba, was designed to hold up to a half
million people and features 750 eight-story apartment buildings, 12
schools and more than 100 retail units, according to the report.

State-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation
reportedly took less than three years to build the city at a cost of
$3.5 billion. It covers 12,355 acres.

BBC former Angola correspondent Louise Redvers reported that the discovered that the city’s buildings are completely empty.

The empty cities aren’t only in Africa.

WND and Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reported just last year
that Google Earth photographs of China depict city after city of vast
complexes consisting of office skyscrapers, government buildings,
apartment buildings, residential towers and homes, all connected by
networks of empty roads – with some of the cities located in China’s
truly most inhospitable locations.


Google image of China’s empty roads

Images of these “ghost cities” – after countless billions of dollars
have been spent on the towns’ design and construction – reveal nobody
lives in them.

Block after block of empty houses and apartment buildings, glamorous
public buildings, magnificent public parks and sports complexes, even
art museums, remain entirely empty.

“The photographs look like giant movie sets prepared to film
apocalyptic motion pictures in which some sort of a neutron war or
bizarre natural disaster has eliminated people from the face of the
earth while leaving the skyscrapers, sports stadiums, parks and roads
perfectly intact,” Corsi noted. “One of China’s ghost cities is actually
built in the middle of a desert in Inner Mongolia.”

Business Insider ran a series of photos of these Chinese ghost
cities. One showed no cars in the city except for approximately 100
parked in largely empty lots clustered around a government building, and
another showed a beautiful wetland park with people added using
Photoshop.

At the time, China had an estimated inventory of 64 million vacant
homes and was building up to 20 new ghost cities a year on the country’s
“vast swathes of free land.”

Empty roads in Zhengzhou, China

Business Insider speculated that the Chinese need to put their money
somewhere, so developers have decided to build, as a place to store the
wealth, even if the Chinese building these cities do not intend to live
in them and there is no prospect they can find renters.

ScallyWagAndVagabond.com quoted Patrick Chovanec, a business teacher
at Tsinghua University in Beijing, who explained, “Who wants to be the
mayor who reports that he didn’t get 8 percent GDP growth this year?
Nobody wants to come forward with that. So the incentives in the system
are to build. And if that’s the easiest way to achieve growth, then you
build.”

The following are some photos posted on Facebook of the Chinese “ghost city,” Nova Cidade de Kilamba, in Africa:

 

Chelsea Schilling – July 3, 2012 – WorldNetDaily

 

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