Exploring an Abandoned Chinese Ghost City

[@TheProperPeople]

Thank you to Jameson Nathan Jones for the music in this video! The tracks in this video are currently unreleased but you should definitely check out his other work: bit.ly/JNJSpotify Also another thanks to our sponsor for this episode, NordVPN. We tried out many different VPNs when we were in China and Nord was one of the only ones we were able to get working thanks to their obfuscated servers. Get NordVPN at NordVPN.com/properpeople

[@ThinkingBetter]

Reminds me of a visit to the South China Mall about 8 years ago during a weekend of a business trip. It is the world's largest mall and turned into a ghost mall. Some shops in the mall had been opened but shut down again due to too little occupancy. Everything looked like falling apart. Only a garage floor area was in use as go-cart race track. I spent some time driving go-carts there. I wonder how the place is today...

[@Badgirl360]

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[@sezjamaelstrom9696]

I LOVE your channel! My favorite Urbex content :)

[@RailPreserver2K]

As for the trains in China, theres a website that charters tours for those interested in seeing the trains, the site is www.farrail.eu

[@bradleybresnehan1172]

Poop

[@dracula9031]

When you build everything in Sim City and then make a new account.

[@craftybeckham]

True

[@toxiclegacy5948]

U just nailed it. 😂🤣🤣

[@voxx7248]

Underrated

[@rokasir]

Exactly 🤣

[@AprilGAMING300]

Dracula same

[@kei_on_tv8157]

On the upside, this is the perfect place to film a post-apocalyptic movie.

[@ky13_l92]

@NotAFan NeverWillBe facts tho

[@Tacticaviator7]

@NotAFan NeverWillBe eh, not really

[@RandomPerson-th1pu]

@NotAFan NeverWillBe edgy.

[@Luke-hk5vx]

NotAFan NeverWillBe bro...😂😂

[@AnderEvermore]

I was waiting for a zombie horde to jump out

[@Mogul20478]

Well no wonder it's taking so long! They only have that one guy working on it!

[@whyisblue923taken]

And he doesn't even look up.

[@phlowjaxx]

lmaooooo xD

[@Vit-Pokorny]

@Junta Cornubia Steve IRL

[@the_trespass_tourist7215]

He’s done an amazing job so far

[@jxmai7687]

you are welcome to join in.

[@prodigy750]

I’ve watched this one so many times, I was a heavy equipment operator for a long time and worked on some massive projects but this just incredible, I don’t think you can truly appreciate the grand scale and depth of this place until you understand just the amount of earth you have to move to create something of this size, this is definitely millions of cubic yards of excavation, I would absolutely love to see this place, and the music is a perfect fit for the video, I love this one, it’s jaw dropping impressive...

[@colinvos7304]

I understand you man, i work as a surveying technician and i love big projects. Sadly i live in a tiny country and big projects arent really a thing.

[@joytotheworld2100]

That's all I could think if, the cost, materials & manpower is unbelievable. All down the drain.

[@Lorendrawn]

Where'd they put all the earth???

[@243wayne1]

Nothing the Chinese do is impressive. All they do is copy.

[@gus29361]

@@243wayne1 I would agree if it wasn't for scale. You can copy all you want and if you make it big enough it'll still be impressive to a point. I'd be way more impressed to see this in the US however, labor is much cheaper in China.

[@nome2057]

The one thing i learned from this video? Never look up an abandoned elevator shaft, some idiot might drop a rock on you.

[@ericroyal8122]

No Me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂

[@sandmanaustin181]

Varry funny and apparently true.

[@oiitzME1266]

Lmao facts

[@dinolovesmakeup4678]

No Me 😂😭

[@jaspernemesio3816]

I was thinking the same thing since there were more people in that building.

[@hyperionorion1733]

Imagine being that one random dude exploring alone. Then looking up the elevator shaft to just get hit by a rock. 5:30

[@ksiaze8955]

He must have been like "damn"

[@Officialmorgana]

I read this comment, just as he dropped the rock down the elevator shaft 😂

[@bigboyjones8299]

Bonk

[@noox13]

"Guess I'll die..."

[@caseybannister6486]

Twice on top of that.

[@Jeff79z]

This mall had been taken over by another developer few months ago. Last month announced opening on 28 sep but later delayed the opening without any date. A few buildings had been demolished or altered maybe to reduce future maintenance cost. The russian onion shaped domes, building with the lion statues on the roof gone. The rectangular glass structures in the middle had beed removed to be replaced by a single curved glass dome like structure over the opening.

[@AdventureAwaits1111]

The chinese Govt has been caught doing many construction projects never intended to be completed. It was all part of a plan to intice outside land investors....showing them how much the area was growing. Falsely. That is exactly what this complex reminds me of. A giant government conspiracy.

[@XiaoFury]

China - we're over populated! Also in China - *large abandoned city*

[@XiaoFury]

@skattergraph I had a feeling they're not. Communist regimes are afraid of citizen rebellion; so they insist on controlling the growth of their people.

[@adrianirimescu988]

@@XiaoFury it 's the Same in the West

[@dangbro]

It's not a city. Its an abandoned project that span over several acres

[@nel9357]

Nowhere is overpopulated , we are cattle to the elite who heard us into polluted cities while they breathe clean air

[@adrianirimescu988]

@@nel9357 preach it!

[@q1uma]

When you looked down the elevator shaft, I almost had a heart attack *EDIT* thanks for all the likes, guess I’m better at the comment algorithm than the KZbin algorithm lmao

[@danielmarshall4587]

You and me too...

[@BitterYumiko]

same!

[@__jpau]

i got serious vertigo

[@GingGongg]

Time?

[@rafi_mota]

@@GingGongg 5:26

[@jean-david-ouellette]

This seems like prime shooting space for dystopian film scenes. Minus the safety aspect and all that...

[@ThatCarGuy1983]

You may have a point there they could sell parts of it all off to a film studio lol

[@Xscilune]

You beat me to it ! LOL

[@DaftPunkSkittle]

@Lumis Sappier ehhh I doubt Zombie movies could use these properly, I feel like movies like Blade Runner can use these location way better

[@alphaxanon]

You’d have to get authorization from the Chinese film authority first. Good luck with that unless you have something nice to say about the Chinese Communist Party, or President For Life Xi JinPing

[@DonnaLee4]

I think Michael had described the feeling perfectly toward the end of the video; it really does completely take me out of my current reality and into a place that exists somewhere else, a place where there is no current stresses, pressures, or obligations. Just an empty place where you can forget about everything for a while; that is why I watch these videos! It's my escape...

[@TheArchitect515]

"I don't wanna climb that" *five seconds later* *climbing it*

[@Toni29360]

Ok

[@Dobermanator]

Look again, if something were to go wrong where the ladder were to fall 3 ft to the left, they end up going down the stairwell, the one without any handrails.

[@justbecauseicould6958]

Go big or go home China: *WHY NOT BOTH*

[@PutlerHuyIo]

so THAT'S why all of the construction workers just left and went home 😂

[@CardinalKaos]

Legit tho China does not play when it comes to building great big fuck-off sized monoliths......theyve got a pretty lengthy and old track record at this point lol

[@CardinalKaos]

@Matthew Littlejohn where the hell did i ever say it was good? Relax armchair warrior, you arent telling anyone anything new. But on that note.....who built the great wall of china first? Or the three gorges dam? Or the imperial city? Those were copies? Im not fan of china in general anymore but before you pull your hate trigger, give some credit where credit is due. Theyre great at building great big fuck off things....no one ever said they build them well.

[@CardinalKaos]

@Matthew Littlejohn are you like 13 and think youre teaching people new stuff still, and that you sound really cool for knowing who Mao Zedong is? Cause it just reads like babbling. He died 44 years ago and was the worst thing ever to happen to the Chinese people. If you think its the same country as under Mao.....youre just ignorant and arrogant and are clearly talking out your ass.

[@radhekrishanrathod9001]

I glad that I understand this joke

[@Opal_Sand]

I would love to have a vr game that is just exploring mind-blowing scale abandoned buildings with photo realistic textures and shading.

[@wiffieneedsagothgirl]

Bruh i was thinking the same thing

[@hansolo6542]

Go out and explore for real!

[@Opal_Sand]

@@hansolo6542 no time, unfortunately 😢

[@Opal_Sand]

@@jillianangell2570 yeah the pandemic makes it make even more sense I'd say

[@mr16325]

@@Opal_Sand dude what do you mean no time? Even if you have a job you can have times off wth that’s just an excuse

[@ericcarabetta1161]

For how recently it appears this place was built, it sure has some serious concrete deterioration problems.

[@STLColt.55]

China regularly has problems with that, because the companies that get the government contracts are not necessarily the best quality at the best price, but are whoever has the best contacts within the Communist Party and friends in the right places. Because of that, they get companies that use sub-par concrete and cause serious problems in some cases before a project is even completed. I dont know that that's what happened in this case, but i do know that's happened in China, so maybe thats the reason for such quick deterioration?

[@Megablainmono]

Because it is made i china cheap shit

[@onegonearm]

You don't hear the term "Chinese steel" during contract bids for no reason when trying to smear the competitors.

[@zekyu8474]

Everything is cheap in china, nobody wants to spend a big buck on something so they'd rather just buy cheap

[@caledonhockley883]

Megablainmono okay then

[@Rahjr-wi3zm]

I work in construction and have been a few large scale projects. But this place is just magnificent in size. It’s such a beautiful place and I really wish it could’ve been finished but then we wouldn’t have even known about it. Thanks for what you guys do. I love abandoned building and this is the my favorite. I want to visit this myself

[@PARABOLA1966]

Huge, yes. Beautiful, noooo.

[@mrcool7140]

How does any of this look even remotely beautiful to you? Delusions of grandeur ,a parody of the 21st century, if anything.

[@henryD9363]

It's massive and imposing, but there are important safety and structural issues that don't look good.

[@NueUzrnem]

I don't know why but i love to see abandoned cities. Its soo relaxing

[@charlestorruella8591]

Did anyone else get chills down there spine when they where walking up the stairs with no rail on either side or was just me that's scared of hights so much I get scared looking down on a video that's bad right

[@holliejackson8453]

I was scrolling absent mindedly through the comments, looked at the screen as he was going up those stairs, thought NOT IN A MILLION YEARS and looked back at the comments and was hovering on yours, great minds and that.

[@kicktherancor3217]

How about him getting that close to the elevator shaft

[@J_3564]

Their*

[@lamarsii]

When he looked down the elevator shaft with the camera my head literally jerked backwards

[@SpookyFossil]

I work on staircases and honestly it does feel weird when there's no handrail, especially when carrying heavy tools down them. XD

[@bombomos]

Too bad airsoft is illegal in China. This would be the best map ever

[@ltsmithneko]

Would still be a lot of work to section off safe areas : P Being how the poor materials are that is holding the place together you're just waiting for a major accident

[@gracielapacheco3262]

That's dumb

[@nathanm8792]

i thgout they lifted the ban seeing how there army can use it to train troops

[@drubber007]

Airsoft is illegal but eating cats & dogs is all good. WTF.

[@nikkinorman4254]

Yeah on a video game, not in real life.

[@scottchristensen4081]

What’s amazing is how much money was spent to build that place just to have it all be deserted and left in disarray. Awesome video. Thanks

[@edthatsit8035]

China: World's Largest Paintball Arena. They just don't know it

[@Yeroc357]

Paintball insurgency

[@Xi_Jinping_is_Pooh]

Damn, might take you days or weeks to find someone there.

[@dinmamma740]

''doomsday milsim OP'' ^

[@That2.0Balt]

EdThatsIt it needs to happen

[@That2.0Balt]

Follower of Pooh we’ll not if you call in a UAV

[@zaczaclee]

Years of video games experience has taught me, crossing that Venetian bridge will definitely trigger a boss fight

[@frenchyroastify]

Should have kept the giant clock hour hand as a sword, just in case.

[@Pluvillion]

And that huge area is the last venue where the boss shows it’s final form.

[@Mo-rc6ph]

😭💀😭😂

[@purebloodnovacks662]

😂😂😂 top tier 👌

[@anypercentdeathless]

I think here's where they filmed The Last Of Us.

[@yiqinuk]

I cannot believe found this on youtube talk about a abandoned project in my hometown. Most interestingly I lost quit a bit of money on this project in 2014. The gigantic project called Xiang Yun International. The company who started this project call Lian Bang group. The owner of lian bang group is in jail due to corruption charges back in 2014 soon after I invest in this project. Government trying to find a new buyer to finish this project for many years. Due to the scale of project, no one wants to take the risk until today. It is in a very good location to be honest.

[@Krystalmyth]

Well, it isn't Wuhan, so I'd say its not that bad.

[@pacovl46]

Well, they should just sell it off in bits so buyers can develop it bit by bit instead of trying to sell the whole complex in one go! Surely the towers would make nice residential places. I don’t understand why the city doesn’t buy parts of it!

[@mocuishle3519]

我听说这个已经被中科建收购了呀，不知道他们什么时候动工。

[@kristiinametsakuru8205]

Hi . Thank You for info. But id it possible to see some pictures on concept-idea? I try find but.. I think i do not know how to look for it :(

[@myownfreemind6627]

Has there been any updates, or are they possibly planning to take it down and sell the land?

[@senpaigarr]

I'm always fascinated with abandoned places. But to see buildings of this size be abandoned is crazy to me.

[@EmilyS-gk3st]

Happens during disasters and war outside of the actual circumstances of that specific area. You have no idea how many buildings are left to rot for various reasons.

[@richardgreene4022]

Bryan: "You can, I don't want to climb that...." Next scene: Bryan climbing it Lol I'd be scared to be up there too. Especially since it's an unfinished building. Great video guys!

[@SuV33358]

😏😂 ikr

[@diatomsaus]

I'd trust that makeshift trash ladder more than the Made in China aluminium junk ladders at a local store... tbh

[@sarahcoleman5269]

To be fair, that was a super janky "ladder".

[@PogoMoehre]

On the first view I thought bryan is the brave of the two :p

[@PossumMedic]

homeless guy disguised as a construction worker: "did those guys even see me?!"

[@jazminlane4041]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NightcorEDM]

Homeless? If you go to Endia 🇮🇳 you'll see lots of dirty disgusting stinky slums😂

[@TimForber69]

😹

[@montyi8]

@@NightcorEDM Triggered CCP

[@chrisluckhardt]

Anyone interested in seeing my "behind the scenes" videos of these Chinese explorations? (I'm the other guy in these videos.) Edit: www.youtube.com/@chrisluckhardt

[@merryja01]

Yes please!!!

[@MikeyFab]

oOo yes please that sounds amazing!!

[@ryangurnick]

ooooo yes yes yes, 1000% yes. also what is the other channel?

[@chrisluckhardt]

Seems like the answer is yes, lol. I can't promise it'll be on par with Michael and Bryan's work. For now, my IG is the best place to see clips until my YT channel has content. instagram.com/chrisluckhardt/

[@donwall9632]

you have some beautiful photos!

[@estebanvillalobos2303]

the first rock fell for about 3.67 seconds giving it a velocity of 117ft/s and a distance of 217 feet or 20 stories, the second rock fell for 7.7 seconds, 247ft/s, 954 feet or 88 stories

[@hugomorganti4761]

would the speed of sound be significant factor? would it make big difference?

[@brianj.841]

I kept thinking, "Fool of a Took!":)

[@randomvideos466]

Thanks, you doing good at physics

[@imrevadasz1086]

​@@hugomorganti4761Speed of sound is ca. 300m per second, so it makes a small difference, but doesn't really matter for this approximation.

[@northstar2007]

I appreciate the maths! but, did you compensate for the speed of the sound to travel back upwards? or does it have little to no effect? always wondered.

[@1gnore_me.]

the scale of that underground parking area was INSANE

[@rantropolis]

So for the several dms asking why I’m not in this video, thanks for remembering me! Actually it was our last day in China and the fact I haven’t been home for 3 years, so I decided to stay with my parents for the day, but hey! The boys did a pretty smooth job travelling without me!

[@randomrazr]

:O

[@gloriouspurpose18]

Yay for family time ^x^

[@SteveVi0lence]

No uploads?

[@gearloose703]

I figure you'd finish in the south, but this is pretty north? Did you not go any more south than this?

[@rantropolis]

Gearloose we went to somewhere pretty south, more south than Orlando speaking of latitude. Please be patient and wait for other episodes!

[@Adahop]

Jesus Christ my entire groin sucked up inside itself when you peeked over the ledge of the elevator shaft out of the blue.

[@dangeroustoys5668]

yes , its unnerving when they peer over steep edges

[@yoyo5069]

Teenie weenie

[@jfrtbikgkdhjbeep9974]

damnnnn 😳

[@daogenify]

Hey Ada/ Neebs fan

[@Dave_CDN_IrishDAB]

Same here. Normal I'm fine with heights but this video got me

[@랙쇼랙쇼]

It's a shame that such good facilities will never be used by anyone while poor people around the world have no house to live 😢

[@nero3837]

Good have you seen Chinese architecture bamboo castles

[@TVwriter23]

The city doesn't look bad compared to some other planned cities I've seen. Many just look so unnatural

[@rovari524]

these towns are empty now soon when war breaks out they will be full :)

[@himanshugurjar9002]

@@TVwriter23 Lol go look them from close up. They start crumbling and cracking within 2-3 years of construction

[@veronicasmyth3830]

The redundant comment or strikes again.

[@haley7708]

Wow that was so impressive how y’all stayed calm and showed enough dominance for those dogs not to attack. You can see the one testing that guy...sheesh

[@intheshadow1200]

almost a few centimetres , it could have been worst , you should had kept a stick or metal bar with you , nobody never knows what could happen anywheretimeplace , and get biten and caught a deadly virus from the middle of nowhere...... stay safe

[@aloisschicklgruber320]

They didnt say what a good boy he was

[@WTFIsThisGuyDoing233]

I would have kicked a couple.

[@hahihohuhey]

@@WTFIsThisGuyDoing233 They probably would've mauled you to the point of death, but sure, do your thing.

[@LilOutlaw112]

The funny thing is that the dogs were thinking the same thing “damn that was close almost become bbq”

[@barryjames3747]

Maybe that one construction worker has done the whole thing

[@goofyleo3869]

Confucius say----> Largest building start with one brick...and Communism no work.

[@kasana901]

Dude that sounds like the sickest ghost story ever

[@idiotmiho]

the worker: "ah shit! i forgot to finish all the buildings, i hope they dont notice or ill get fired.."

[@Gogglesofkrome]

it's like minecraft

[@dominicparker4888]

😂😂

[@robertpolicastro1]

The concrete sketchy af, the cement blocks sketchy af, the craftsmanship sketchy af, ok let's go to the roof!

[@realtide]

Lmao

[@yamahonkawazuki]

The smell of chinesium is strong with this one

[@jesseiwamoto6612]

My thoughts exactly looks like shit. The Egyptians made nicer blocks haha

[@x-1584]

I did see some REBAR BEAMS under a ceiling structure, that I guess was not officially completed there in seg 30:50 to 31:00 If anyone had noticed them. And I suspect that the winding self supporting stairs should have a very strong rebar lattice network design construction, that will greatly support the self supporting concrete stairs under constant weight mass i,g.. So just hope like blazzin heck that cheapo concrete was NOT used that'll break up into rubble where there's nothing left but rebar.

[@BennyLlama39]

And I thought multistory buildings in Turkey were dangerous.

[@arthurhaack618]

This would make me feel like I'm in a survival horror game, or the apocalypse! So unreal.

[@chenyangzhao8869]

This project is built in my hometown: Shijiazhuang. The Xiangyun Guoji Project supposed to be complex with the mall and residential buildings. The location is actually very good, right next to the highspeed rail station and subway station. But the real estate company applied for bankruptcy protection in the middle of project development. Because the government found them having financial report problems, and capital investors cut off their loans, their money chain is broke. So the company has to do asset restructuring. The news said 699 residential complexes already sold. Some finished residential building was hand over to buyers. And rest of the buyers get compensation paid from the bank by the rest asset from the company. But the mall was never finished. But since the location of this project is really good, so some other real estate companies would take over the land if the bank offers a fair price. This is a typical fail of a capital game, but photographers got a good shotting spot.

[@mrm0r1]

This is a typical fail of capital game? This is a typical fail and typical way how communism failed and fallen in most of countries over the world, including my own country, now proud and independent. But looted completely by communist regime from Moscow. And from other side by Germans - f@ckin@ nazis. Communism or any other totalitarian system?! Never again! We won't let it happen again for sure! Will fight for it till the last drop of my blood... 😉👍

[@chenyangzhao8869]

@@mrm0r1 China is a socialist county, but it also has the largest capital market in the world. If you go to China, you would find that China is very different from the "communist" you think it is.😂😂😂 China doesn't run western style democracy, but it doesn't mean it is some extreme communist society like USSR used to be

[@jxmai7687]

@@mrm0r1 you don't know what is real communist, stop use this word. if it is a goverment project, China have to much money to finish off.

[@mrm0r1]

@@chenyangzhao8869 Thank but you don't have to explain to me this stuff and defend China on the other side. 😉👍 China is not extreme communism? Well nowdays maybe not so much like North Korean government but they are still communists and that is fact. In China are still uncomfortable people are getting lost, missing, government using penalties like a death sentences whenever they want... I've lived in totalitarian communism regime for majority of my life so I know on my own skin what is communism shit. Never again.

[@mrm0r1]

@@jxmai7687 And how do you know what I know or don't? I don't know what is real communism? Good one. 😉👍 Like I said before - I've lived in totalitarian communism regime for majority of my life so I know on my own skin what communism shit is boi...

[@julianobrien3851]

This is honestly one of the coolest locations you have ever done!

[@gearloose703]

And they touched like one tenth of it!

[@gatolordjuju]

Apparently, this was a project which was meant to have shopping complexes, living space, and garden sceneries. The project was basically at its last stage of development, but it turns out that the owner went into bankruptcy, which then caused problems in the contract. In the end, the owner was jailed, and this project was abandoned. It's really sad seeing this, as this could easily turn into one of Shi Jia Zhuang's most fascinating places if the owner wasn't bankrupt.

[@blackberrybold9300]

It is more fascinating in its current state i think.

[@migmikko]

Why was the owner jailed?

[@aoeu256]

Other investors can take it over, but the Chinese were waiting for the best seller.

[@gatolordjuju]

@@migmikko The owner was bankrupt and owed the construction company money, but couldn't pay up.

[@Bevco1946]

This is why there should be more than one "owner".

[@MikeyShumy]

I love all your guys' adventures, but there is something different about this video. No matter how many times I see this location, I am still in complete shock at the scale of this massive abandoned city. Someday in the future, I hope you guys get to go back and explore further.

[@jackkraken3888]

Chinese Investors: "So which style of architecture are you going to use?" Chinese Developers: "Yes"

[@kirbyswarp]

Its so uninspired, generic and awful looking.

[@Beblue1337]

@@kirbyswarp kinda like going to multiple places in europe after you've been to something like florence

[@martinb.1324]

@@kirbyswarp all of China's new developments are like this. I have been visiting the country for work for over a decade and I sigh at the disappearance of older districts to make room for these monstrosities. Older districts in China are full of life but the new developments even those that have been completed and populated for years feel so dead and empty.

[@conexos2007]

They white washed themselves. They have a fixation for anglosasaxon culture. Thats sad because oriental culture is way better than western culture in terms of foundation values

[@jackkraken3888]

@Gaëlle Dupuis that's sad. But did you notice how even those fake pillar things in the video were hollow?

[@EATSxBABIES]

The lack of structural steel in this place is giving me the worst anxiety.

[@Jjudes9665]

EATSxBABIES Yeah the structure of the brickwork, concrete and windows (minus steel supports) is so sub-standard compared to UK building regulations. To see these buildings crumbling away so soon is really quite disturbing. It wouldn’t take much to bring that lot down in an earthquake.

[@Jjudes9665]

Matthew Littlejohn In hindsight such a true statement. When you think every knock-off item they manufacture is made with my legal safety requirements in place. Europe, the US and Australia/NZ get flooded with dodgy electrical, building materials, toys, fake cigarettes, you name it. China has even been guilty for manufacturing fake baby milk that contains chemicals and plastic. They even mix plastic beads into rice to bulk it up.😳😱

[@HCFrick-sx1ty]

the I-beams supporting my house contain more structural steel than that entire complex

[@RH-sg4nn]

Felt the same way. Had to remind myself that they were safe.

[@conveyor2]

There's plenty of steel in those buildings. Why else would China account for more steel production than the EU, India, Japan, USA, Korea combined?

[@thehightower5579]

This could be the greatest ever paintball arena

[@ColdCreekB]

This is one of my all time favorite videos you guys have done. Can’t even imagine actually being there and walking around. Crazy.

[@jrbackup2495]

Amazing how many materials were just wasted on this. It’s a shame

[@torremth]

Also slave labor

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

and the crazy thing is that the type of sand that is used for structural concrete is running out in the world. we're facing a shortage. jfc useless waste of a finite resource.

[@92Frederik]

@Ken MacDonald "That's what happens when governments manipulate GDP to try to make it look like the economy is growing" Uhm...no. They even explain the background of the project in the video. People wanted to move in there, but because of corruption and consequent bankruptcy the project couldn't be finished and therefore this obviously turned into this "ghost town", which is really just a medium sized development.

[@benanderson6002]

What a waste, it's crazy that something this huge can just be dropped that quickly.

[@biohazardlnfS]

Tis China they have been constantly doing this. They are pushing the poor farmers to try to live in cities to they keep building which helps inflate the economy whilst also giving jobs to citizens who would otherwise be un employed and restless. For some reason they want to make Mega cities and just have the sprawl and sprawl

[@kongwee1978]

@@biohazardlnfS Now they are pushing less and less people to cities. They wanna retain their village address and work in big cities. Sweatshop labours are getting less for automation. Those could not upgrade their skill head back to village being farmers and get organic farming and home stay skills from CPC.

[@diatomsaus]

@@biohazardlnfS This is just untrue. Too lazy to really counter anything you've said, do some reading of your own. Just think about it, what would happen if farmers are really forced out of farming? This is just stupid.

[@joecramp2987]

When you consider the scale of China this a needle in a haystack

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

+Joe When you consider the environment of China being on it's last legs, this is a nuke on a country.

[@SquishyMain]

I get abandoned buildings and towns, BUT A CITY!?

[@luisfernandoalmeida9114]

it's not a literally city, but one complex inside a big city with more than 9 mil people

[@3DegreesNorth638]

Anyone know why it was abandoned?

[@hazards8235]

And in china?

[@numnums3660]

1.4 billion people changes the social dynamics

[@sierre00]

@@luisfernandoalmeida9114 There is an actual abandoned city, 404 nuketown in China.

[@romanz9022]

This video is like every dream I had where I am walking around an unfamiliar city and want to keep exploring but then I realize it's a dream and I wake up.

[@kandii88]

I got mad second-hand adrenaline when you dropped that rock down the elevator shaft. My fear of heights kicked in

[@TheScottBonnar]

My balls tightened at that very moment......oh sorry.

[@Sarah-jr]

I also feel that. But I was thinking more like, what if someone coincidentally walked by on the bottom and got hit by that rock. That small rock could crush a skull.

[@Worldofourown2024]

Oh gosh, this is really good video when it makes us cringe like we were there being forced to step to the edge to look into the abyss of possibly falling to our death. Yikers snikers...

[@Hennessydream]

kandii88 I have a fear of heights too but since there was like a large ledge I was good

[@ItzRetz]

They took "Go big or go home" to heart. They went big, then went home.

[@-M0LE]

Retz 😂

[@michaelmcgee2026]

That's a good one

[@breakinn403]

This site is inscrutable! What s amazing is it's abandoned before completion. It goes on and on and story after story and none of it ever reached a stage of completion. I doubt anything matches it in size. One of your best videos! Thanks for documenting it.

[@AprilGAMING300]

breakinn403 agree

[@adventureswithdan84]

This place could easily hold the world record for the world's biggest abandoned place.

[@jordanw5833]

Probably Chernobyl

[@henryD9363]

There's that!

[@fructosecornsyrup5759]

​@@jordanw5833Chernobyl isn't entirely abandoned. People still live there.

[@farmers740]

There is also a water department building in Guizhou, China, which is in China style. It is more magnificent than this one, and that one should be the first.

[@toqsekgaming7640]

So damn cool, I love your vids. I watched alot of other urban explorers, your guys are by far the most slick, professional and polished.

[@AprilGAMING300]

Toqsek Gaming agree

[@brodiemacleod69]

Nice u were first

[@shannonmayfield4963]

How did you see this 3 hr before it came out

[@toqsekgaming7640]

@@shannonmayfield4963 I'm a supporter, the guys release vids early to us!

[@ninjapistol14]

@@shannonmayfield4963 he's a member thing, I think members get to see uploads first

[@Rear_Admiral522]

In case someone is interested: Using the time it took the stone to fall down the elevator shaft, it's roughly 67 meters deep.

[@ronrico2620]

Don't forget to adjust for the speed of sound to get back to the mic.

[@Shineynsparkles]

How sure are you

[@Phantom-darkness]

I got 69 meters dude. No way! Excellent!

[@cilency]

Or 220 freedom units

[@Fibrosis50Creations]

RuleofVicus 😂

[@toadamine]

"worker" = guy trying to steal electrical wire for scrap money

[@tylerlindsley5469]

my thoughts too lol

[@ronaldorivers236]

Cooper = 💰

[@fokker34]

20 years hard labor in Chinese prison camp for a little scrap money.

[@evognayr]

*copper

[@tengma8]

fun fact: there is a specific crime in China called destroying electricity infrastructure, punishment is 3-10 years in prison, and most people who got charged in by this crime are people who did exactly what the "worker" did, stealing wire to sell for copper. Many just didn't realize this law exist, as if they knew that, they would realize they would get way less prison time if they steal anything else of same value.

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

The scale of this place is so huge that I feel physically nauseous every time I see it. It just doesn't seem like it can exist. That first image of you peeking the camera down into that enormous vaulted sub-structure makes me feel like I'm going to throw up and faint at the same time.

[@Rockport1911]

That heavy smog makes that " Ghost- town"- vibe really come to live...

[@optimusprimee]

Ghost worker.

[@Zomeone]

What causes this smoke there is no factory in reach ?

[@RNCHFND]

@@Zomeone Air moves around and it was a specially cloudy day.

[@seanmcdirmid]

Shijiazhuang is one of the most polluted cities in China, it makes Beijing look like a clean air paradise.

[@AndreaGonzalez-lo8dv]

My heart dropped when he looked down the elevator shaft.....

[@BitterYumiko]

same, also love your pfp

[@dangeroustoys5668]

same , those views scare the heck outta me putting the camera over the edges like that

[@sleeptyper]

My heart missed a beat too and another one looking at the crane ladder at 10:00. I guess it has a proper access higher up...

[@thecasualcaribou]

The fact that China has multiple of these ghost cities is crazy

[@boiled_egg_]

@El Bottoo It's abandoned though right? Therefore it constitutes a ghost city.

[@porkypuff5884]

@El Bottoo okay bud your delusional

[@porkypuff5884]

@El Bottoo imagine getting this mad over the internet, what a loser, lol

[@peakperformance8960]

@El Bottoo you sound pathetic, be quiet please

[@porkypuff5884]

@El Bottoo go back into thinking that the earth is flat, you'll cope with it easier there

[@arwong222]

The entire video triggered my “falling from heights” reaction

[@lord_hypebeast457]

Looks like my Minecraft cities when I don't fill the interiors

[@おりはらいざや-q3t]

Same

[@silxnce1]

lmaooooo 😆

[@Versuffe]

Exept your minecraft city has 5 buildings. And 1 road

[@kahn9563]

This would be an epic game setting no joke.

[@ArcticuKitsu]

Neir Automata

[@4321hubel]

@@ArcticuKitsu weeb

[@ArcticuKitsu]

@@4321hubel Eh?

[@أكبرمنالحيا.انتهزالفرصة]

In fortnite yewh

[@kahn9563]

@Dustin Eward oh hell yeah

[@KpopNiDontStop]

This the place in some random action film where there is a final fight.

[@Electronic424]

Def something like in Avengers or Iron Man, or a spot where Super Man fights his final villain

[@eelnoops5200]

In the end - just a massive waste of limited resources. The toll this took on the environment, with almost zero real sustained benefit. That gives me anxiety about how unsustainably we are living in so many places still.

[@thebigcapitalism9826]

Look up Anarcho communism. This is humanity’s only hope for survival. Pretty much has been since Mesopotamia, when civilization formed and the rich and powerful formed and maintained hierarchies for their own benefit

[@matsilau2632]

Heavy flood in china now..

[@StevieV]

China gives not a single shit, it's honestly terrifying.

[@Elijah-hz9ls]

It's mainly just Mainland China under the rule of the Communist Chinese Party. Massive corruption, pollution, the unimaginably creepy country modern China has become after the "cultural revolution" under the biggest mass murderer of our times Mao Zedong... A land of facades and shortcuts. Communist China has such an... eerie feel to it, moreso than the USSR and even North Korea, hard to put into words... "Reality is stranger than fiction" they claim. When one really learns the full truth about CPP-lead China, every hair on the listeners and watchers body will have stood up as a nausiating feeling overcomes the observer of Western and Eastern origin. China is merely a hollow shell. China is a ghost of its past. China is a ticking time bomb.

[@Elijah-hz9ls]

​@@matsilau2632With a drainage/ sewage system incomparable to most underdevelopped African countries, as well as corrupt construction plagued by malicious shortcuts, fake bricks and fake concrete, it's inevitable that every time a heavy rain sweeps a region of Mainland China, it'll be written about in the newspapers of the West. A flood but did it have to end in such an outcome? A flood... but did it have to be?

[@chlorabread339]

There's something so calming about this. No people in sight but you can hear cars in the distance.

[@dalebare8953]

The cementing on the buildings looks bad. Crumbling fast so that should tell you something.

[@caledonhockley883]

dale bare probs because it wasn’t fully built and there wasn’t stuff to preserve it yet

[@genli5603]

Chinese construction. It's normal there.

[@gijsvermuntagrifotografie]

dale bare i mean the wind got free game in there

[@nicholasburd3369]

I live in China, and I can confirm that building construction in most of China is what would be considered substandard in the developed world. For example, grouting and sealant are normally unheard of, so floors in China (from large tiles in regular homes) to sidewalks (which use brick or bathroom-style tiles) become loose after about two years. Sidewalks constantly fall apart, and buildings slowly crack and crumble.

[@dalebare8953]

@@nicholasburd3369 you have my deepest sympathy. I have heard that along time ago.

[@techalyzer]

This makes me remember what it felt the first times I encountered dogs on the mountains... and boy it never gets easier! :))) One time there were 3 HUGE shepherd dogs. Heads the size of a basketball. Last time a dog came running full speed towards us from the top of the mountain, only to stop at our feet and ask for cuddles. Boy was that a relief. :)

[@josefinebergmann7445]

My friend and i once got chased by a crackhead in an abandoned hospital because my deaf ass ran right into him :') *I mean a dogs a lot faster so good that he didn't wanna eat you!!* :)

[@philnightjar1971]

Never run stay your ground. Show the dog you are dominant at the same time not a threat.

[@josefinebergmann7445]

@@philnightjar1971 oh i didn't know that! I knew that about bears and elk but dogs? Another live saving advice, thank you!

[@jeffumbach]

At the very least keep pepper spray on you, dogs have much more sensitive noses than humans.

[@PheonixStarsx]

*stands on top and see’s abandoned city* “Everytime i see the city i can sometimes hear the distant dreams of the people once living here, the happiness and sadness,I don’t know what the future holds,the future’s not ours to see” *lits up cigar as I need you by m21 plays in background*

[@blakesweeney1023]

Crazy to imagine the amount of concrete produced to build these structures, all for nothing. This might be my favorite place you guys have visited.

[@JHA854]

Seriously, we have a worldwide shortage of sand and it’s being wasted in China.

[@braydennoh9980]

It seems like going through one of those “6 years to complete” Minecraft cities...

[@AmbientStudios]

For someone who specialised and studied in brutalist architecture, this place is a gold mine! Its perfect! gives off such an amazing other worldly feel.

[@rowleks7102]

I love brutalism

[@dudeimdudely7477]

Brutalliam ruins my country :(

[@Mo-rc6ph]

We need a word for that perplexing feeling.. seeing such a contradictory place like this, the sheer enigma of an unnaturally empty setting with its desolate secrecy and silent curiosity. For me, reminiscent of exploring some busy public space after-hours for the first time.. maybe we call it the *Back-Room Phenomenon*

[@Hoshino_Channel]

Liminal spaces!

[@donseemayer3856]

The shallow floor , the one you hit you're head on is the maintenance floor or one of many actually. You would find more electrical stuff . ' breaker box, telephone, wifi, security, network system and so on ..

[@caseyb1353]

Of all the UrbEx dudes on KZbin, I'd say you guys do the best job at setting up some really awesome shots. I also like that you generally approach exploring with a relatively more laid back air than many other explorers out there.

[@orangewedges]

This is incredible. I missed out on touring ghost towns while I was living in Beijing. I left China in 2014, and things were constantly being built even in Beijing where space was getting limited. For example, there was one time I went home for a couple of months, and when I returned to Beijing, a new subway line had been finished. That huge building you were exploring was meant to be combined hotels, convention centre, retail spaces, offices and residences in one massively huge complex, but the developers ran into problems with corruption (as many of these ghost towns do) and the project was pulled, leaving lots of people hanging. I can't imagine what the finished product would have looked like. In the neighbourhood of Beijing I lived in, there was a smaller similar complex that was finished that consisted of a hotel with adjacent mall that were connected together, but what you guys explored was on a whole other scale entirely!!!!

[@stoptrudeau42]

Perfect for there social credit score. Bug food. Digital id. Totalitarianism gov

[@FrankPSF]

Imagine simply pouring just the bottom concrete pad for the entire place! This was great. Thanks so much. Let me know if you ever need an old man to accompany you on one or two of these explorations!

[@hollyrachels4295]

I have to say I am a mum and at the end of the day I love nothing more than once everybody is asleep to sit back and watch your videos

[@Tehseenescene]

I have to say im a stoner and i enjoying surfing KZbin while being high as a kite

[@CoolcatsSk8]

Shady lol

[@Rose-di9fw]

Turns out that construction guy was a ghost

[@tomiv9850]

No he was in creative mode

[@Rose-di9fw]

@@tomiv9850 lol

[@AMG-316]

@Rose 71: I thought the same thing...🤔

[@tiarnaleake5461]

Omg that’s what I thought apparently a lot of workers died here since at the first stage of building one of the pieces of wood dropped on 5 workers it could have been him

[@Rose-di9fw]

@@tiarnaleake5461 damn..

[@wabch]

The absolute size of this. Even with the dubious construction quality the size of these are still amazing. the biggest building ive ever been in is 100s of times smaller than that

[@dispersion6839]

You should visit the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China. It is the world's largest building in terms of floor area.

[@scottwojcik2148]

When you hear The Proper People's intro you know it's going to be an awesome video as always. You guys have the best urbex channel on KZbin!

[@leilani6724]

Use this place for: Quarantine, housing , or new hospital.

[@zekyu8474]

@@joe-oz6fl not our problem. maybe if their country did something other than send their people and buildings to other countries they'd actually get something done in their own country.

[@RandomBubble]

Magna XAN I think (I’m not sure) that their grounds are unstable. The other video (an abandoned water park) showed how sinked the floor was. Maybe this is another reason why they abandon projects like these??

[@JarradBruessel32]

@@RandomBubble the problem with chinese with their construction is that they don't let things set before they continue on with work so the ground in that park was probably just barely leveled off and packed down when they built the park and here they didn't use proper mixtures then continued working instead of letting things set which causes it to damage more easily.

[@CreeplexHD]

@The Nsa is evil Yeah, obviously. Lmao

[@hayleysquire9238]

would be perfect for the coronavirus victims huh!

[@Dysgalt]

That ladder is straight out of Silent Hill.

[@laurag7426]

I have never been confronted with my fear of heights as much as I am from watching this video. Looking down the elevator shaft when you dropped the rock had my heart rate escalate through the roof. Would never be able to explore half the places you visit. No idea how you guys do it!

[@Renee_R343]

You should look Shiey. An absolutely fascinating and different kind of urbex content. Plus he can make people, who aren't afraid of heights, want to look away.

[@Renee_R343]

And if you do give him a try, let me know what you think.

[@finecastleie]

The anxiety I feel when they drop stones down a shaft. It gives me chills.

[@15firekid]

There's an eerie beauty to large abandoned unfinished concrete structures.

[@amtree6333]

This is just what my town in city skylines looks like after i raise the taxes by 2%

[@jakobkrhyl2818]

Lol

[@laurendailey6418]

wow... I'm more afraid of heights than I realized. The lack of railings doesn't help. 😅Watching this made my body ache and my skin crawl... but in a good way? I really appreciate what y'all do. There is a soothing nature to your videos. I use your not so fear inducing adventures to unwind in the evenings and I'm usually falling asleep because I'm so relaxed. Bravo, guys!

[@milmil5350]

I don't think those dogs have an owner. It's more likely that an entire city has some animals, *abandoned pets,* rats, etc. living in it. The dogs act like they formed a pack.

[@TheHipisterDeer]

Ya why the fuck would the owner be like "hey attack those random people"

[@nekoimouto4639]

Was thinking they were a pack of straydogs too. They definitely appeared territorial.

[@stephen_l1474]

mil mil nah they are the owner of the city, it’s not abandoned that’s just a zootopia or something

[@wardragon670]

4wb21 the owners whistled at their dogs, those couldn’t have been strays cuz of that whistle

[@4wb21]

wardragon670 yes

[@_EllieLOL_]

Bruh imagine if this was LA or NYC abandoned Like how would that look

[@Wallbeige]

Perfect

[@Ayanaamariaa]

Wont be long!

[@ltsmithneko]

A lot more intact and rather as if nothing's changed except a lil' extra greenery taking over~ Remember a lot of these abandoned building projects are money flip scams, the cheaper the better~

[@redfounded8478]

Completely covered in graffiti and taken over by squatters Also locations for Gangs and drug dealings and I imagine ALOT of criminal activity

[@sencerr226]

Kind of like the movie I am legend, i would assume

[@RealmsOfThePossible]

There are 100s of massive projects started in China that have fell apart in fact there are entire new cities totally empty.

[@Jorge-xf3iu]

damn 🤯

[@zacharybinx8642]

I've heard they keep building just to keep people working and content. Unemployed masses start revolutions.

[@travisnelson9104]

Also to artificially lie about economic values.

[@RealmsOfThePossible]

@@zacharybinx8642 Whatever the reason these massive projects are doomed to fail. Not only are they building these immense structures they are using inferior materials and cutting a ton of corners hence them already deteriorating. Also any residential buildings like tower blocks are so pricey per dwelling almost no chinese person can afford to move into them and they just sit there for years empty. Lots of youtube videos about it.

[@kenshin891]

@@RealmsOfThePossible I wouldn't be the first to theorize it's the ccp trying to cook economic stats. But then they siezed this and there's lots of corruption involved (in China?! Shocking, I know). I'm honestly not sure

[@LongLiveBoomer]

I believe that “Roman” style cathedral was also meant to look Russian. It looks like it’s strait out of St. Petersburg which was largely built by a Italian architect. It even has that classic Russian church pillar on top.

[@devvvvvvvvvvvv]

*Guy 3 miles away* "Hide hide hide they're coming"

[@makaylas6466]

i don’t get how a place could get that bad in only 6 years!

[@garfruma]

You would be surprised

[@franklincarmona1385]

Ikr

[@Drega001]

Chinese build quality

[@mcbchannel7173]

One of my house just heavily damaged and bad looking by vines and crack in just 3 years abandoned.

[@christophermcdonald6440]

remember that none of it is enclosed. All the concrete and metal has had to experience all the elements for so long. something you'll rarely really see

[@brickstunram9391]

The lack of rails gives me anxiety

[@IMINTHEMOMENTRU]

It would take a crew of 100 guys, years to finish the rails

[@efrax3340]

@@IMINTHEMOMENTRU no way they make these building start to finish 3-5 weeks to complete. Watch other videos showing the building process no more then 2 months to complete

[@nickmarchionda4345]

@@efrax3340 It’s because the walls and beams are put together and made off site and when they get to the side the walls go together like puzzle pieces this is how China was able to build that Hospital in 10 days during their initial covid break out in 2020

[@SniperMonkePlayz]

The Ghost city combined with the light fog just feels like a backrooms level, very vibey

[@jumdas1049]

It is

[@jplichta]

Those incredibly huge spaces made me think of Portal 2. I love these kinds of surreal environments, never imagined there could be something like this irl

[@Adahop]

That's exactly what I was thinking of the whole time! That game blew my mind with its scale (more than any other game) and this did, too!

[@stevenbillz9880]

Adahop oh! Fancy seeing you here Ada! Hope you are having a fantastic day!

[@josebustamante5121]

I love that these guys dont fake there explorations. They just give us the raw footage.

[@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888]

I love that you're still that naive.

[@twokool4skool129]

America: "Behold New York, our largest city!" China: "Unimpressive. We've abandoned bigger cities than that!"

[@mkkureshi2177]

Oh largest in terms of corona virus deaths or cases? No i was just wondering.

[@andrewe.2464]

@@mkkureshi2177 wat

[@MRMarkston]

In my opinion one of the best exploration video on your channel. Keep doing these great videos!