Kangbashi, in China's Inner Mongolia, is a "ghost city" of luxurious buildings but no one lives there, according to an article in the U.S. weekly magazine Time. Kangbashi, which took five years to build, was intended to be the centerpiece of Ordos' showpiece city, but now has a population of just a few tens of thousands before it's called a "ghost town.
Reason one, because China belongs to a large and diverse developing countries, for our unique people, naturally, is the most popular and certain regional needs, and we are China's vast territory, but the population is also very dense.
In terms of the density of the first-tier big cities, there are few other cities that will be sparsely populated, while the new district of Ordos City Kangbashi shows a very sparse staffing situation, which is why there is such a statement.
Reason two, Ordos City Kangbashi New District as a border area of the urban area, to bring everyone is always the development of a very fast state, in this fast-paced development of the footsteps, but let everyone see is a relatively small number of people, but also because of the vastness of this area, coupled with sparsely populated, naturally, it will be very scary to people.
And if in the case of a very developed building, but still show so strange, it will make everyone feel with the whole of China's development phenomenon out of place, naturally, it will make everyone associate the so-called ghost city state.
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From the geographical dimension, most of the "ghost towns" lack of supporting functions are mainly entangled in the absolute volume and relative distribution of the lack of two situations.
The absolute volume is not enough to make the entire "ghost city" planning range of basic commercial, public **** services, municipal and other supporting facilities and residential, commercial, industrial and other new towns of the dominant function of the construction volume is not proportional to the volume of supporting facilities volume lagged behind the dominant function of the construction of the amount of commonplace.
Even though the total number of supporting facilities in the "ghost towns" can meet the demand of the planned population introduction, most of the design units failed to reasonably determine the construction locations of the supporting facilities during the land planning of the new town zoning, resulting in the "ghost towns". The distribution of similar facilities in localized locations is too dense, while other locations are in short supply of irrational phenomena.
The spread of ghost towns and empty cities across the country stems from the dependence on land finance, but the root of the problem lies in the central government's performance appraisal model for local governments. For example, the higher level of government each year, the lower level of government will reach the assessment target of fixed asset investment, so that many places try to engage in large projects and large investment in repetitive construction, empty ghost towns is the extreme performance of the investment-driven economy.
The domestic economy in transition, structural adjustment, but from the upper levels of the performance appraisal mechanism failed to synchronize the transformation of the GDP, fixed asset investment, investment and other indicators of the assessment of the local government's behavior still plays a leading role. If the assessment mechanism can not be substantially transformed, will inevitably lead to local officials new bottles of old wine, change a land finance vest and then on the battlefield.
The ghost towns of empty cities are on the rise, and the board not only has to hit the local government, but also needs to reform the performance appraisal mechanism.
Similar ghost cities:
1. Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Qingshuihe: rebuilt a city
2. Bayannur, Inner Mongolia: connecting Northwest China with North China, Northeast China, an important transportation hub, the country's important border economic cooperation zones, the emerging industrial cities, trade and logistics, tourism services, financial trade and other characteristics of the main service industry base.
3. Erlianhot, Inner Mongolia: the country's opening to the north of the economic and trade corridor, a regional international logistics center, commodity distribution center, import and export processing base.
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