One of the often mentioned narratives regarding China can be found on the Alt-Right and Hard-Right websites in America. It’s the narrative that China builds these huge enormous “ghost cities”. That China builds these huge concrete cities that no one lives in, and that this is just another example about how “out of touch” China is with it’s people.
- China’s eerie ghost cities a ‘symptom’ of the country’s ..
- China Ghost Cities: 5 The Contemporary Abandoned Cities
- 34 Pictures Inside The Startlingly Empty Ghost Cities Of China
- China’s Largest ‘Ghost City’ Booms Again
- The truth about China’s futuristic ghost cities
- Why China Has Over 50 Ghost Cities – NDTV.com
- Ghost Cities of China | Environment & Urbanization
- The Unreal, Eerie Emptiness of China’s ‘Ghost Cities’ | WIRED
- Where are China’s ghost cities? | World Economic Forum
- Photos Go Inside China’s ‘Ghost Cities’
- Chinese Cities Are Ghost Towns – Business Insider
- China’s Largest Ghost City Is Now Almost Completely Full …
- Time for a reality check on China’s ghost cities – China …
Well, of course, it’s a big bunch of misdirection, misunderstandings, lies, and intentional fabrications.
Yet, what is actually going on is far more interesting.
And if you study it, you see just how healthy the government of China is, and how proactive it is in caring for the Chinese people.
In this article we are going to take a look at one of these “ghost cities” and see what is actually going on. No. It’s not about how “out of touch” the Chinese government is, but rather how forward thinking it is. People in the West simply cannot imagine what is going on. This is simply because the size, the scope, the forward planning, and the belief that if everyone is “lifted up”, then everyone prospers.
It’s unheard of in the greedy West.
Here’s the video.
And NO, it’s not me. This is a video blogger that travels the world and speaks better Chinese than I do. He has a vblog called JaYoeNation. He’s pretty good. LOL.
Take a spell and let it download. If it is taking too much time, you can click on THIS LINK and down load a zipped-file and watch the video directly. It’s pretty good. Please enjoy.
You have got to see the pictures and this video…
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Thank you sir for your content and perspective.
Just a thought, perhaps a write up to explain about digital e-payment / e-wallet that is now prevalent in China.
I find it fascinating that China leapfrog over the credit card system and went directly to digital e-payment. Think it is partly to bypass the strangle hold of western banking payment system associated with credit cards (Visa, Master Card).
It’s also fascinating how they use technology such as QR Code, NFC, secure payment via apps AliPay / WeChat Pay. The speed of adoption is astounding, even rural areas today uses e-payment.
Over my end of the world, e-payment is slowly being adopted in cities, especially by younger generation for daily small value transactions. Still in infancy stage with at least 5 e-wallet apps but I expect it to whittle down to 2-3 main e-wallet apps plus bank e-payment / e-banking apps later on. As it is, the first 3 leaders are accounting for nearly 80% market share.
I can easily explain to you why it is taking so long to accept e-payment elsewhere.
[1] It’s free.
[2] No fees. No interest. No taxes.
[3] Thus no one can profit from it.
China considers the ability to conduct personal commerce to be a RIGHT. Thus no one is permitted to profit from it.
E-commerce is different from, say a loan. Where you borrow money for a fee. Instead, you are making direct transfers of money from hand to hand, and there is no need to pay any kinds of fees or charges. And that is why it is slow to adopt elsewhere. In the rest of the world entire nations are trapped and wrapped in this money-making ponzi-scheme to siphon all this money from everything that you do.
Now. Because of this, the Chinese people have lots of money to play around with, and they are becoming strong as a result of it. You need a new road made, ok one million and it’s done. In the USA, if you want a new road it will cost you one hundred times that amount, and that is just to pay off everyone who has their hands “in the till”.
If other nations want to grow and prosper they must accept the Chinese model, or else they will fall behind “in the dust”.
“money making Ponzi scheme” – brilliant description on the banking system !!!
As for the gravy train, well, politicians & their cronies are hand in glove for that one. Ain’t no way it’s going away, especially in “democratic” countries, much less “democratic” third world countries. Prosperity only applies to them, while the majority dumb voters are given pittance in “gratitude”. In Cantonese, we call these dumb voters “sor-hai”.
I think that one of the reasons why Trump banned Wechat was because it was Chinese. But the most significant reasons were [1] it permitted Americans to communicate with people in China for FREE. Not having to pay the skype, and American fees for international calling and video. And, [2] ease of money transfer for free. Before he put up all these blockages, I used to get money from my Paypal account nearly free. The cost was so low. Now, there is a fee for money coming in. A fee fro money going out, and since Paypal is blocked for money withdrawal you could use Wechat. But trump blocked it, so now you have to use Western union which charges a fee for the transaction and a fee to withdrawal. Until that time, if you gave MM a donation via Wechat, I would get it, and no one else profited from it. Nice.