THE VIDEO SHELF · china ghost cities
Are NEW Chinese buildings really FALLING DOWN?
The ADVChina hosts tour a villa neighborhood in southern China that was built only three years earlier and is already empty and deteriorating. They use it to discuss ghost cities, building quality and the real estate bubble.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it in threads on China's housing glut and construction quality as visual evidence of poor, empty new buildings.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- ADVChina
- Topic
- china ghost cities
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 11
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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ADV China youtube channel has covered this with some great video of new construction problems in China (not implying the problem is only there): [VIDEO]
ballenf on Hacker News · 2018-08
In Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workersThis video from last year was pretty eye opening to me. Shows uninhabited "new" ghost cities completely crumbling. There's no underlying value to the property bubble going on over there and the scale seems mind blowing. [VIDEO]
ajflores1604 on Hacker News · 2019-07
In China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas
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