Xiong’an Becomes ‘Ghost Capital,’ China’s Largest Unfinished City, Eerily Silent Streets!

[@One.Zero.One101]

It's crazy to think how many businessmen lost money on all those empty shops and restaurants.

[@rgrifferon]

When people don’t have jobs, they can’t afford to patronize businesses.

[@czar89031]

Chinese gov't has to stop corrupting those oversea's Company by asking a lump sum money revenue for there greediness this way the Citizens of China gets a job and can patronized those small businesses to money to there businesses itself

[@dcc70]

Xi really took to heart the message in the film Field of Dreams: if you build it, they will come. The difference is he used tax payer money to build it.

[@akiramenai4973]

Also, baseball is popular. A flat, unpopulated flood basin is not.

[@stage6fan475]

@@akiramenai4973 YES!! Pooh Bear should have wondered why nobody lived there already! Guaranteed to flood.

[@andreasmartin7942]

Best maintained ghost town I've ever seen.

[@patrickt49]

There's barely anything to maintain.

[@ArtIsDrawing]

Like your rural dirty towns?

[@dnguyen787]

Maybe because it is still new? LOL

[@ThailandTerry2024]

It’s called or considered “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Way to go Xi …

[@Hae_Haelo]

As an introvert, I would love to live in this city.

[@akiramenai4973]

...until you wanted to buy or eat something outside of the 10 options available.

[@Hae_Haelo]

@@akiramenai4973 i don't eat a lot. Don't worry. Once a week grocery is fine. 😁

[@callebchuan5813]

Send in rural residents to occupy the apartments and create a new city . After all lands and properties belongs to the state , isn't it .

[@GamerShowdown-h8j]

1m sleeping on the streets under filthy conditions with no access to toilets and clean water in America. Housing is a luxury in America. This channel is fake bs against China

[@sweetbabyray1000]

​​​@@GamerShowdown-h8j And yet somehow you can afford a cell phone service & have access to internet 😅

[@Purzify]

Who will grow the crops?

[@TGWazoo1]

Prisoners.

[@maackiaamurensis5703]

I do prefer this over the overcrowded cities. I guess im getting old.

[@GamerShowdown-h8j]

Cia paid bs

[@akiramenai4973]

You have to ask yourself: The things I do, the places I go that I now enjoy in my leisure time...would they be present there? I don't expect a positive answer.

[@SANN-1969]

Is okay please be patient, flowers blooming growth need times

[@navegantezen5983]

Pudong, in Shanghai, has also been like this for some years. It’s a different approach to populate a city project.

[@bigfootwalker5399]

Abandoned Chinese cities are cleaner than the inhabited cities!

[@GamerShowdown-h8j]

All China is clean. Go there

[@kal-tsit]

​@@GamerShowdown-h8jlol

[@JustThinkingAboutIt]

Obviously. It's people that make things dirty. If there's no people how can things get dirty

[@TheGhostOvHades]

​@@GamerShowdown-h8j😂 Dude, you gotta be extremely naive to believe that. All of China isn't clean, all of America isn't clean, all of the UK isn't clean, theres dirty places literally everywhere. "Go there", dude you do realize China is on the exact opposite side of the planet, right? That's not really the argument killer you think it is. People can observe from afar and make conclusions if they want. If people from other countries can watch footage from say Philadelphia, and tell us America is dirty and has a homeless problem, just from watching a few videos on the internet, then why can't we do the same?

[@lance8080]

@@GamerShowdown-h8j stop cheerleading Covid China is finished 🇨🇳

[@PeterRudesindus]

The housing bubble is insane.

[@markkasper7281]

The fruits of communism

[@vmbay2212]

Coming To America: Sponsored by Harris & Walz: Socialism, or Communism R US

[@heyjo3417]

a good place to shoot movies. movie set up

[@patrickt49]

It's a very expensive movie set...that nobody wants to visit.

[@Lao_lu]

Once the universities are built, things will grow. The students there will help build the local economy, and students may even settle and find work there, as businesses setup offices around the universities. China has experience doing these kinds of things already. also, when AI starts taking over jobs, people will be more concerned with finding comfortable places to live with more space, Beijing is overcrowded, and the apartments are too small for large families. and Xiong'an will become a great alternative. especially with the transport links to Beijing. Another thing about AI, is humans will move away from a labor economy, to an education economy. where peoples time will be spent on learning. while AI and robot's do the labor. Education wont just be for young people anymore, it can be a lifelong pursuit. So, with that in mind, Xiong'an could become a very futuristic city, as a central hub for learning and education.

[@jarigustafsson7620]

there would probably a city big enough to have the whole country of Israel formed in one of those abandoned cities to end the middle east wars.

[@i-fart-n-elevators4610]

Conflicts would arise because both Israel and China desire to annex land from neighbors using force

[@RydarkVoyager]

These massive cities(one per CCP leader) remind me of the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs building their tombs (and aiming to outshine their predecessors). Waiting for when Xi gets mummified and buried. Paraphrasing from Indiana Jones (Raiders Of The Lost Ark), "...after a few thousand years, even Xi's mummy might be worth something..."

[@Py16777216]

Everything is fake, especially the money. It's like me building outlandishly huge stuff in Minecraft. Looks great and is fun but there's just me and maybe a few hundred villagers. one to

[@oncoded]

I used to be against the LOCKDOWNS, I am still against the LOCKDOWNS.....But THANK GOD For the LOCKDOWNS.

[@kalutah]

Xi should live there

[@keitha.9788]

But there would be nobody for him to talk too..............

[@patrickt49]

@@keitha.9788 That's the whole point. He doesn't get to spread his stupidity on anybody.

[@susannayeu4471]

Wow our great leader really knows how to build a beautiful city. Hourray!

[@alanheath7056]

At 0.01 seems dumping your litter is the norm in China. Thoe in Japan the citizen's would take there litter home and certainly wouldn't scramble to snatch Food.

[@mattanderson6672]

Rise up People of China

[@budisuwandhi6818]

The fact is real occupant of Siongan reach 60 percent and will be growing steadily.

[@vanveakrin276]

It will take another 10 years for the Bureaucrat in Beijing to move to Xion On in S W of Beijing

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

TEMU Mall

[@eikooowiesnowyowlchannels1921]

Winnie with his ghost city

[@YOL1K.K]

Many ghost city's

[@eikooowiesnowyowlchannels1921]

@@YOL1K.K casper at home

[@door1479]

I ledgend that's what I want....not

[@powershift2024]

It's Pooh's very own headstone for the entire party. 💩

[@eikooowiesnowyowlchannels1921]

@@door1479 casper at home

[@mikewolf-x6t]

That abandoned rail station looks like a great place to lay flat

[@ClodLavado]

There the ghost is every where " 🧐🧐🧐

[@bornagain9192]

Probly not the best idea to try to run a modern society trying to manipulate every one with deceit, and dishonesty! There is a creator and his love is for us all, he is the one in control and and knows everything !

[@zeorhymer6]

They built things using imaginary demand numbers. No one wanted to face reality that the demand is zero

[@fenkliew7550]

Say, 30 years. It's still a ahort term situation for a project meant for a thousand years. Well done, Xi.

[@WackyIraqi777]

You aren't very smart are you? China's population is shrinking. That city will become abandoned and the crappy Chinese infrastructure will not last 1000 years.

[@JustThinkingAboutIt]

Exactly. In like 10 years there's going to be millions of people living here just like all the other former ghost cities

[@Qingeaton]

A top down, command economy never works

[@davidholder3207]

Its the Malay "Putrajaya" of China.

[@MasticinaAkicta]

Just in time for Halloween Preparations! SPOOKY TIME Will there be a customer? Or won't anybody show up today?

[@door1479]

FREEDOM AT ALL COSTS

[@GamerShowdown-h8j]

Free to sleep on the streets in America.

[@りか-d4h]

I saw a man washing himself in a rainstorm in China.

[@りか-d4h]

I saw a man washing himself in a rainstorm in China.

[@lance8080]

@@GamerShowdown-h8j no room to sleep on Chinese streets, over crowded with unemployed 🇨🇳

[@ArtIsDrawing]

Tent city!!

[@meilinchan7314]

Apparently, China has a specialised jargon that translates into something else in the West: what is called socialism in the West, is called Welfarism in China. What is possibly an economic depression is euphemistically called a deflation in China.

[@patrickt49]

Whatever helps their delusional selves sleep at night...

[@peterxyz3541]

people forgetting the mississippi river bank? The flat plain along the the river...about 10y ago, that entire area was flooded....and Home Owner insurance id NOT cover floods since floods are a different thing.

[@RatTerminator]

Good 🇺🇲

[@amadeusamwater]

Why do the incoming businesses have to put up new buildings, when many of the ones already there are vacant? Also, why not take some of those unemployed new graduates and move them there to work?

[@2782Jack]

work at what? it's a ghost town, you can't open a restaurant or store because there's no one living there and if you need to open a factory you need to find areas that have the resources you need like copper or tin or sardines if you make canned sardines, you can't just ship fish 400 miles inland for canning unless you like eating rotten fish the core issue is that without jobs, there's no money, the Chinese government basically paid for a bunch of buildings to be made, and now they have to pay people to move there, and then pay them for work that doesn't need to be done, and somehow after giving away all this money, they will then get tax money back from the city, taxing money they just gave to the graduates, effectively just paying a bunch of people to exist somewhere Planned cities usually work because they are planned around an industry like farming, fishing, or mining but you really can't just build a city because it's just a collection of buildings without an industry to support it, a giant concrete campout without anything of value but what you already brought with you

[@amadeusamwater]

@@2782Jack Give the graduates each a monthly allowance so they can shop in the stores, eat in the restaurants and ride the trains. It will make the city look like it's busy. If you're going to have a fake city, why not fake citizens.

[@amadeusamwater]

Also, give them some of those unsold cars to drive around in. Then the streets will look busy. In China, appearance means more than reality.

[@peko7446]

Turn it into a movie set

[@thebuddha4208]

Take all the money take all the resources take all the real food and you wonder why there’s nothing left

[@yawaka3412]

Nice! 😉

[@frkzoid]

It's perfect for introverts like me.

[@grandpa7278]

Just looks closed to me, our mall opens at 10am, check back then.

[@mlrobert3338]

Experts said? Experts from where?

[@MasticinaAkicta]

Another "lets build a full city" and right now running only at a few percent capacity. And with the current economy... it will take a while to fill up.

[@ionitacatalinionut5324]

my wife is china girl :)

[@giddy9052]

Central planning. 'nuf said.😊

[@slamdunktiger]

Winnie the Pooh realizes his sandcastles have no honey.

[@hanskostka6788]

so what's the problem - in a dictatorship you easliy can make a million people move in from another place - aren't there some people in Xinjiang who are looking for a new place to live since the prisons there are overcrowded?

[@dcc70]

Xiongan was supposed to be the new high tech/education capital, but nobody wants to give up their Beijing residence to move to the swamp. As far as uighur migration, they will never allow ethnic minorities to take over Han territory.

[@GamerShowdown-h8j]

America is dictatorship

[@xdangelovidz]

Which city?

[@tonysu8860]

The comments about workers not wanting to re-locate remind me of the "High tech California exodus to Texas" in the US where the HQ might move and a few companies can try to force workers or less important companies move but in general the best and most valuable are strongly motivated to remain where they are People won't naturally want change without good reason and if they're satisfied where they are at will fight change

[@ArlanLanuza]

Why are no people there because there is no job. So people will stay at their house or find a new job. Since many foreign companies are closing many people are becoming jobless. So why should you go to the mall if you don't have money.

[@ccea_3050]

Build the city with capitalism in mind: Shanghai Build the city with socialism in mind: Xiong'an

[@LeroySiagian-sb6qi]

China has almost as many unfilled buildings as USA has homeless people. But this looks more like an investment gold mine waiting to launch. Since it is a pet project, It is definitely going to pay off big in the future. Sure, early adopters usually need to bear the brunt of start up pains, but better getting in early on a deal than when prices have skyrocketed.

[@midimusicforever]

The marks of an OOFconomy!

[@arthurlincoln9093]

Malls are so 1990s. Killed like streets with shops in them by the internet.

[@tonysu8860]

Balls die only because of their original concepts and refusal to change, in particular brick and mortar retail became uncompetitive which is ironic since the reason why they exist is that they drive small shops out of business. Today some businesses continue to flourish like restaurants, entertainment, support services like maintenance and repair. Some products can't be sold without a personal experience although the sale still has to be made online.

[@mariushusejacobsen3221]

If Xi really wants it to succeed, he probably could. But that would involve moving there himself. Until and unless he's willing to do that...

[@Hiperultimate]

Expensive houses, less avg salary, big expectations from the govt ig

[@MarcFutoran]

Building a whole city in low lying area prone to floods makes no sense. Didn't it flood once already?

[@patrickt49]

Tell that to pooh. None of his policies make sense.

[@AlbertLloydy]

Is this gonna end up the same as the artificial island in Malaysia that's now a ghost city?

[@RodrigoPalma700]

Thanks for sharing.

[@weimingfeng2284]

one of the 16B USD program

[@user-eg2oe7pv2i]

chinese feel country living is more affordable

[@keitha.9788]

Food is a lot more closer in the country. In the City, you can't eat concrete....

[@oncoded]

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 They give EVERYTHING FREE to their Family, Friends and Cronies just like You.. If we Truly care about each other, EVERYTHING WOULD BE FREE.

[@ChekhovBla]

this is perfect for a zombie movie....

[@K23-knk]

Only city you can find your wallet left on the road hours before

[@Odayian420]

Do these people not check the area before deciding to set up shop? I mean for real to hell if im opening a new business in somewhere I couldn't check the through traffic first.

[@Qingeaton]

You can be sure the government fed them all sorts of fake numbers and offered deals to get them to bite.

[@divizionx]

What a waste

[@yanliew4027]

Mix up with Dongguan in the south!

[@DawnLi-iw8qb]

So many vanity ghost cities now. Binhai New Area is another failed one.

[@haianh3936]

Thank you buddy

[@louisduplessis2075]

Sad for people who lose livelihood here...bit if you trace the stream to it source maybe more of a delta ...it wl lead to....fill in the blanks.Still lessons are not learned...It has been goi g on for years. .In Suzhou I saw whole deseted shopping areas next to a lake...You could see the toppeld mannequins...or old menus laying around through the windows...nevertheless right next door building was going on...next to perfectly good buildings.

[@K23-knk]

Emperor's new city

[@Flash023]

What happened? I only get BS news. Is the economy that bad? Was the location wrong? How could some place this beautiful not be used? Is it government waste? It is beautiful compared to the old world that is in the US, where our infrastructure is in bad shape. How much is an apartment there? It’s a flood hazard? Wow, talk about mismanagement of funds!

[@johntaphouse5235]

"its so deserted it could be tourist attaction".... lol do you hear yourself

[@danbreeden8738]

Remember that after the last human

[@Steve-pp2lx]

Empty dreams empty promises empty potential empty China

[@markbarnes2041]

😊 it's a legacy all right a legacy to Superior stupidity

[@Ukie88]

Over expansion and waste of resources without any thought to the environment. Xi’s Vanity folly project .

[@GeneralWolfenstone]

Ghost China …🫤

[@austrich0]

they've made the backrooms in real life!

[@blumexcolombia7921]

Serious, why do all of these constructors o r planners think we need more and more shit like this! If you have a pan to cook, maybe youll buy a second but then it's over, don't need more! Same goes for all of the other crap they are offering ! Car, phone, shoes............

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

If I were Chinese citizen, I'd want to move to Xiong'an. Less people, great infrastructure, access to high speed rail. Seems like a "win-win" situation to me.

[@KingTFD]

If you were chinese you couldn't afford it

[@Jaegerrants]

If ypu were chinise citizen could you affird to move there os be able to make a living?

[@andrewc662]

And no jobs. How you going to live there without money?

[@mrman3363]

As long as it's safe and find a job, probably remote, it seems good

[@fruitspunch8859]

* _cough cough_ * have you heard tofu dregs something?

[@tonymovan-ph9ji]

Turn it into a skate park

[@bruneilange4161]

Is this actually happening or false reporting.

[@larryCatford]

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[@Oldfogey2014]

Another ghost city….

[@quantifiablyqorrect2905]

Are the ccp expecting some kind of population jump? 😂 China is in big trouble

[@ahvidaneidavirgilluminous8754]

By ur mouth, sejong South Korea also failed

[@studbaker1]

Not sure to believe such stories. I coming of China is bad but not this much .

[@chariseh9524]

KZbinr Serpentza

[@vian58-j1k]

Example Dream to reality

[@raylee9234]

Another sour news?For a change we viewers need something enjoyable to make our day

[@wushuhsu]

The g is silent,

[@Steelkicker]

Social anxiety utopia right there

[@LEV1ATHYN]

Xiong An is a "legacy for future generations"... A legacy of CCP FAILURE 😂

[@SentosaRobby]

KANYE WEST SAVED TAYLOR SWIFT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@adrianchin2970]

This township must be your great leader favorite toy shop😂😂😂

[@rodpettet2819]

Where are all the people? Have they all died from covid, or some other disease?

[@fruitspunch8859]

Nah, everybody in china survived covid and all disasters. They just can't survive Xi's policies.

[@rodeldiono5303]

What chinese god is doing? xi jping what a god are you? 😂