An eerie look inside China's enormous, empty 'ghost cities' By Matt Levin Feb 5, 2016 Photo shows a street on November 22, 2013 in Chenggong, Yunnan Province of China.

China is trying to move almost 300 million people from rural areas to urban locations. In anticipation of these moves, they've built many new cities — that are completely, eerily empty.

By Gus Lubin and Mamta Badkar China's notorious ghost cities are a disaster waiting to happen, according to a new report from CBS News' "60 Minutes." Take it from the CEO of Vanke, the country's ...

Will China's 2nd Great Leap be a horrifying one? Over the last two years of traveling constantly in China, I can say that I have not seen a single city, town, or hamlet without massive empty ...

China's ghost cities aren't going away. Even as Beijing wants local governments to move away from GDP targeting and is more focused on developing social housing, wasteful construction still ...

China, frankly, has grown weary of endless reports about its severely under populated cities. That’s why the provincial government of Inner Mongolia refused to issue me with an invitation letter.

These mysterious — and almost completely empty — cities are a part of China's larger plan to move 250 million citizens currently living in rural areas into urban locations by 2026, and places ...

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The beginning of the boom. Museums in China are a distinctly modern intrigue. The country's first museum wasn't built until the second half of the 19th century, and it was built by a European at that.

A city in one of China’s poorest provinces is awash in half-built roads and apartment blocks, symbolic of the mounting debt crisis facing municipalities around the country after years of ...

Ghost cities are a phenomenon that have worried many who pay close attention to China's housing market. A recent survey shows just how many empty homes are out there.