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The Empty Cities of China

Jim Riley

28th October 2013

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This video report from Australia's SBS programme is 15 minutes long but is well worth viewing.

A couple of years ago the channel's cameras first reported on the phenomenon of "ghost cities" in China - the result of vast investment in housing, commercial and other property infrastructure to support the process of urbanisation in China. Whilst demand still exceeds supply in the major Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities in China, in other places whole cities have been built with almost no-one to live in them. Quite extraordinary. Take a look.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.