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.

Across China, entire cities of luxury mansions, marble staircases, Gothic churches, and billionaire-grade theme parks now stand abandoned, rotting in the open air. Cattle graze between $850,000 villas ...

Two seemingly contradictory realities co-exist in China: on one hand, Chinese cities are overpopulated, while on the other hand, there are also empty cities and tall skyscrapers almost entirely ...

The sudden closure of Apple’s largest supplier, Foxconn’s Henyang Hongfujin Precision Industry plant, due to the government’s ...

Foxconn’s Henyang plant closure exposed the fragility of China’s industrial economy, leaving 30,000 workers displaced and ...

China Law Blog has a guest post by Dirk Chilcote who had lived in Zhenzhou for 3 years. He is skeptical of western media's report on China's ghost cities: In my three years living and working in the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China promised to build liveable, sustainable and resilient cities in the next phase of its urban development after the first top-level urban planning meeting in a decade, ...

The shutdown of Foxconn's facility in China highlights the decline of the nation's manufacturing sector, impacted by government mismanagement and rising operational costs. The fallout poses a severe ...

The sudden closure of Foxconn’s Henyang Hong Fujin Precision Industry plant on September 30, 2025, sent shockwaves across ...