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Are NEW Chinese buildings really FALLING DOWN?

ADVChina · 2.6M views · 2018-07-02 · 11:04

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Overview

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.

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HN commenters cite it in threads on China's housing glut and construction quality as visual evidence of poor, empty new buildings.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2023

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Macroeconomics & financial crisesCivil engineering & constructionGeopolitics & foreign policy
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What people said

ajflores1604 · 2019-07 · Recommendation

This 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]

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ballenf · 2018-08 · Recommendation

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]

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onlypositive · 2023-02 · Reference

A large number of them aren't and they're crumbling apart after only a couple of years being built. [VIDEO]

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