• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Not all cities start from villages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_China

      Although a feature of discourse on the Chinese economy and urbanization in China in the 2010s, many developments that were initially criticized as “ghost cities” in China have since become occupied and are now functioning cities.

      Some cities are literally just built into the empty space, then wait until people move in. It has worked multiple times in China. Some cities literally went from zero to a million inhabitants in under 20 years.

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        I actually remember this one. Weren’t western articles shitting on China endlessly for this? Calling it “ghost cities” and making up conspiracy theories and all.

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          You still get lemmitors who think China just has empty cities made of tofu, trains that nobody uses, giant concentration camps full of people whos only crime was desiring freedom, and that china will collapse any day now.