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Inside China's 'ghost cities' crisis
It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.
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Western brands still carry cachet in China’s lower-tier cities. So that’s where they’re turning their attention.
In the heart of Neijiang, a third-tier city in China’s Sichuan province, a queue forms outside a newly opened Starbucks. It’s not the first in town, but it’s the first drive-through. In a city known ...
Cities in China face a constant dilemma as they race to improve their infrastructure to keep up with their country’s astonishing pace of economic development. How do they modernize without sacrificing ...
THE FUTURE has already arrived in China, claims Lawrence Lek, an artist, in his influential video-essay “Sinofuturism”. The narration unfolds against a background of cityscapes and factories, ...
After one week in China, you’re an expert. After one year, you have a vague idea of how things work. After ten years, you realise you know nothing—so the saying goes. I moved to China ten years ago, ...
Billionaire Shui On Land Chairman Vincent Lo, right, and American architect Benjamin Wood, left, pictured in 2006, have teamed up on iconic real estate development development projects in China in the ...
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