Ghost towns tend to start as boomtowns, and contemporary China more than likely has more boomtowns than any other country in history. No economy has ever risen so rapidly and no place has ever built ...

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.

SKYSCRAPERS. Shopping centres. Freeways. But there's not a soul in sight. These are the eerie megacities that remain virtually uninhabited. On last night's Dateline on SBS ONE, Asia correspondent ...

China’s long economic boom famously left it dotted with an overbuilt landscape of empty apartment towers and decrepit shopping malls. Tracking these “ghost cities” has become a fixation of economists ...