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  • The Chinese don't have to go to Paris anymore. It's come to them. This is the district of

  • Tianducheng in Zhejiang province. A bizarre mix of Parisian townhouses, fountains from

  • the palace of Versailles and an Eiffel Tower clone, a third the size of the original. It's

  • an incongruous scene........ a place where China's aspirations and traditions collide.

  • Vous parlez Francais? We call it the metal tower. He's funny!

  • Vous parlez Francais?

  • But just like my French, this architectural clone has gone badly wrong. On Champs Elysees

  • Square just about every shop stands abandoned. In the beginning, very few people lived here,

  • even fewer than when we moved in. The bus was empty much of the time. There are more

  • people now. Some shops did open, but there wasn't much business to sustain them.

  • Tianducheng is proving popular with wedding photographers. But the Parisian vibe hasn't

  • quite proved to be the attraction it was meant to be. 10,000 people were sup[posed to live

  • here, today the population is a tenth of that. It's like Paris, but it's quite remote. These

  • buildings are quite pretty and prices are not high. People buy these flats because they

  • are affordable. People don't care about the architecture.

  • At a local noodle bar, I find Wu Shui Qing serving up the lunchtime noodles. She's tried

  • to make a go of it for the last year and a half but is worried how long her business

  • can stay afloat. There aren't many people here - our business

  • is volume-based. We are a food vendor, we need diners. Yes, it's tough doing business

  • here, it is hard to say what will happen in the future.

  • It's possible that more people will move in and the shops will re-open. But for now Tianducheng

  • is another of China's ghost cities.

  • On it goes. Every shop, empty - Boarded up - Amazing. In the southern City of Dongguan

  • I've returned to the vast and crumbling South China Mall. It claims to be the world's biggest

  • shopping centre. It's also the emptiest. Nothing has changed in the two and a half years since

  • I was last in the Great Mall of China.

  • I last reported from here in 2011, back then I found toy Shop owner Tian Yu Gao trying

  • desperately to make a go of it. Do you get very lonely in here?

  • It is a bit boring looking after the shop here. There are two few customers.

  • When was the last time you sold something? Yesterday. I sold one toy. Once it took four

  • to five days.

  • Today Mr Tian's old shop is boarded up. He didn't survive. But the shopping centre could

  • yet prosper. The local government has taken over, classifying it as a national tourist

  • attraction. Billions of dollars are being spent on a makeover that includes a massive

  • apartment and villa complex. The aim is to turn this miserable mall into a new town.

  • It's a build, build mentality that has some high ranking officials concerned.

  • The central government must control urbanisation, it must stop any fanatical actions by local

  • authorities who blindly and hastily implement unreasonable urbanisation measures.

  • Li Tie heads the country's top economic planning agency. For such an influential figure, his

  • language is refreshingly frank. Urban planning in many cities is done at the

  • will of the governor. A governor may be fond of a Western urbanisation model and may want

  • to replicate it to prove that their city can out-perform the West. These urbanisation efforts

  • are superficial.

  • For the ultimate display of rampant and unchecked urbanisation, I've come to Inner Mongolia...

  • Is that a whole city over there?

  • ...to the city of Kangbashi, in the sprawling district of Ordos - 8.30am - peak hour on

  • the main road into China's largest and most infamous ghost city. In the middle of a mining

  • boom, developers were given free reign here, this is where Genghis Khan meets Alice in

  • Wonderland, complete with a Yellow Brick road to nowhere. People may be at a premium here,

  • but space is not. The square is 2.5 kilometres long and 200

  • metres wide.

  • When the short lived mining boom went to bust, the influx of new residents never came. Designed

  • to accommodate a million residents, today the population is reportedly less than 70,000.

  • Driving around this city is an eerie and unsettling experience - everywhere, apartments stand

  • empty, office blocks remain half-finished and the cranes are idle.

  • I think the problem in Ordos is that things just took off. They went completely crazy.

  • Author Tom Miller has written a book on China's urban explosion and why places like Ordos

  • have failed. The kinds of population pressures Ordos imagined

  • they would have, have not come to pass. And so yes, in Ordos there is going to be an awful

  • lot of waste When you travel around China, as I have done,

  • and you see all these empty apartment blocks and houses that haven't been lived in, are

  • we seeing the signs of a property bubble that is beginning to burst?

  • I think there are bubbles within China, but I think that China is a very, very large country

  • and it doesn't make sense to talk about a single bubble. I think it's... Imagine China

  • as bubble wrap. Some of those bubbles within it might burst. But in places like Beijing

  • and Shanghai there is massive demand for housing and there isn't enough housing.

  • It's the area's lack of people that, ironically, is drawing in the visitors. Some have come

  • a long way to see for themselves the emptiest city in the world's most populated country.

  • Ah, there's tourists. Where are you from? From Iraq.

  • From Iraq? Yeah, what about you?

  • Australia.

  • It'll be a while before the tourists come here though, 850 kilometres south of Ordos,

  • they are building another city from scratch. In Gansu Province, in China's arid west, Lanzhou

  • New Area is taking shape. It's a project that began with military precision just two years

  • ago, when army engineers cut the tops off 700 mountains and filled in the valleys. And

  • this is what they're building, a 130,000 hectare metropolis.

  • This project is all part of China's ambitious goal to move more than 400 million people

  • from the countryside to the city in the next 10 years. It is perhaps only China that couls

  • contemplate something on this almost unimaginable scale. Since the turn of the century, China's

  • urban population has grown by a mind-boggling 220 million people. The government is gambling

  • that cities that are empty now will, in time, start to fill up.

  • If you travel around China you will find lots of empty places and if you come back five

  • years later you will find they have filled up. And this, a standard pattern of development

  • in China and it's very, very different from the way development works in almost any other

  • country in the world. Thank you very much for inviting us to your

  • new city.

  • Guo Zhiqiang is Lanzhou's New Area deputy Mayor, he insists that his city will not make

  • the same mistakes as Ordos. Lanzhou New Area will definitely not become

  • an empty city or a ghost city. Essentially, it will be a fantastic, fully equipped city.

  • It will be a beautiful city. It can lift the residents' standard of living.

  • The foundations of a new life are taking shape by the day. Lanzhou will soon become home

  • for thousands of rural migrants from the city's sprawling hinterland.

  • What we see here is a bird's-eye view of less than one-fifth of Stage One of the Green Finance

  • City project. The high-density housing caters to the needs of the majority of the people,

  • people who move into the area to find work or to start a business.

  • Before we left Lanzhou, the deputy mayor had some people he wanted us to meet. We have

  • been invited here by the local government and they are basically organising all of our

  • interviews. Now we are being taken to meet some local farmers who are having to leave

  • their land to make way for this new city.

  • These farmers have had no say in their relocation, but with government minders in ear shot, all

  • insist they are glad to be moving.

  • We're like pioneers in our village. We are doing what has never been done before. This

  • is really good. Yes, I'm happy about it, thanks to the Communist Party.

  • For men who've worked the fields much of their lives, the big challenge will be to find work

  • in the city.

  • I suppose in a way it's not difficult to see why these people are happy to move. But it's

  • always hard to know whether they are saying what they really mean when you have got government

  • minders all around you. Here you can see the demolition work has already begun. And soon

  • all this will be one vast construction site.

  • I asked to see one of the next houses on the demolition list and quickly discovered was

  • only built 10 years ago. What's wrong with this? This seems alright.

  • Why does it have to be knocked down? There are a lot of houses like this.

  • And yet they are going to be knocked down? Yes, yes.

  • For the owner, the gain of a new apartment will mean losing his family home.

  • Yes, of course it's a pity. We had just settled down, but we're responding to the government's

  • call. We're happy to accept the government's arrangements.

  • Will your apartment be bigger than this? We're not sure. We haven't seen it. It's hard

  • to say. We haven't been resettled yet, we're not sure about it.

  • Across China, millions more are making the move from the country to the city. It's social

  • engineering on the grandest of scales. This is where we're living now, but we're

  • moving into high-rises. Living in high-rises is like going up to

  • the sky.

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