My favorite areas I lived in China were so called “Ghost cities”, places where no one was. China’s “Ghost cities” were widely reported in the China bashing media. They were actually entire new areas of development. The construction would happen so fast, schools, apartments, hospitals, etc that the developments would be done before people moved in. It looked like a brand new city that was empty. Eventually they filled up as people and businesses moved in. The U.S has many, many Ghost cities where

You really can’t understand China unless you take a state funded guided tour of Xinjiang to see how happy the ethnic minorities.