I had a very interesting conversation with someone about two years ago, concerning ghost cities in china.
This individuals theory, was that china was going to use them for after World War III.
This person, who spent a lot their time trying to teach and tell me I had the wrong view of prophecy, insisted that I had no idea what I was talking about.
Here's the video I showed this harsh critic:
China's Ghost Cities
Uploaded on Apr 11, 2011
Vast cities are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost uninhabited ghost towns. It's estimated there are 64 million empty apartments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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My theory?
> China will move people from Rural areas to the City, and they built these apartments to house them.
Why?
> In order to control in a grid like system, you want them on the grid.This individuals theory, was that china was going to use them for after World War III.
This person, who spent a lot their time trying to teach and tell me I had the wrong view of prophecy, insisted that I had no idea what I was talking about.
Here's the video I showed this harsh critic:
China's Ghost Cities
Uploaded on Apr 11, 2011
Vast cities are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost uninhabited ghost towns. It's estimated there are 64 million empty apartments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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My theory?
> China will move people from Rural areas to the City, and they built these apartments to house them.
Why?
China just announced this:
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China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
Articles in this series look at how China's government-driven effort to push the population to towns and cities is reshaping a nation that for millenniums has been defined by its rural life.
By IAN JOHNSON
June 15, 2013
BEIJING — China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come.
The government, often by fiat, is replacing small rural homes with high-rises, paving over vast swaths of farmland and drastically altering the lives of rural dwellers. So large is the scale that the number of brand-new Chinese city dwellers will approach the total urban population of the United States — in a country already bursting with megacities.
This will decisively change the character of China, where the Communist Party insisted for decades that most peasants, even those working in cities, remain tied to their tiny plots of land to ensure political and economic stability. Now, the party has shifted priorities, mainly to find a new source of growth for a slowing economy that depends increasingly on a consuming class of city dwellers.
The shift is occurring so quickly, and the potential costs are so high, that some fear rural China is once again the site of radical social engineering. Over the past decades, the Communist Party has flip-flopped on peasants’ rights to use land: giving small plots to farm during 1950s land reform, collectivizing a few years later, restoring rights at the start of the reform era and now trying to obliterate small landholders.
video and more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/
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China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
Articles in this series look at how China's government-driven effort to push the population to towns and cities is reshaping a nation that for millenniums has been defined by its rural life.
By IAN JOHNSON
June 15, 2013
BEIJING — China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come.
The government, often by fiat, is replacing small rural homes with high-rises, paving over vast swaths of farmland and drastically altering the lives of rural dwellers. So large is the scale that the number of brand-new Chinese city dwellers will approach the total urban population of the United States — in a country already bursting with megacities.
This will decisively change the character of China, where the Communist Party insisted for decades that most peasants, even those working in cities, remain tied to their tiny plots of land to ensure political and economic stability. Now, the party has shifted priorities, mainly to find a new source of growth for a slowing economy that depends increasingly on a consuming class of city dwellers.
The shift is occurring so quickly, and the potential costs are so high, that some fear rural China is once again the site of radical social engineering. Over the past decades, the Communist Party has flip-flopped on peasants’ rights to use land: giving small plots to farm during 1950s land reform, collectivizing a few years later, restoring rights at the start of the reform era and now trying to obliterate small landholders.
video and more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/
60 minutes finally covered the ghost cities this March:
China's real estate bubble
Published on Mar 3, 2013
China's economy has become the second largest in the world, but its rapid growth may have created the largest housing bubble in history. Lesley Stahl reports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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China Needs Beijing to Be Even Bigger
By Yukon Huang Sep 9, 2013 5:00 PM CT
One of the most critical and controversial economic debates in China today revolves around how the country should urbanize. Already, more Chinese live in cities than on the land, a proportion that is expected to rise to 70 percent by 2030.
Proponents of further urbanization are hoping that Premier Li Keqiang will announce reforms this fall that will make it easier for migrants to move to cities and receive the same rights as locals. This, they believe, will unlock the productivity gains needed to sustain growth over the coming decades. They’re right about the need for more city dwellers -- but not about the need for more cities.
Like many things in China, urbanization policy is driven by the central government, which has sought to discourage growth of the largest cities and instead promote smaller, often entirely new ones. On the surface, this makes sense: If Beijing and Shanghai -- which already host a combined 43 million people -- were to grow even bigger, they could sink under the weight of social and environmental decay, not to mention wasted expenditures.
China is already in a class by itself in accounting for 30 of the 50 largest cities in east Asia. It boasts half a dozen megacities with populations of more than 10 million and 25 “large” cities exceeding 4 million. In fact, though, the only way China will achieve its desired productivity gains is if its leaders allow cities to evolve more organically in response to market forces. They need to let cities like Beijing get bigger.
more here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
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China should pursue 'high-quality' urbanization: top economic planning body
BEIJING | Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:51am IST
(Reuters) - China must plan scientifically for "high-quality" urbanization that is human-oriented and energy-saving, a senior official at the country's top economic planning agency said in remarks published on Thursday.
China's leaders have an ambitious plan to boost the urban population by 400 million over the next decade, a key plank in a reform effort to restructure the economy away from credit and export growth to one where consumers provide the main impetus.
Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice head of the National Development and Reform Commission, also said China's urbanization level, at about 52 percent of the population, still has a long way to catch up with that of developed economies and even some Asian countries.
"Our urbanization should embody the concepts of green, intensive, intelligent and low-carbon and it does not mean simply building things or enclosing land," he said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in the northeastern port city of Dalian that was posted on the NDRC's website.
His remarks echo those of Premier Li Keqiang, who told a recent meeting of experts on the subject that urbanization should focus on quality of life and the environment and should be driven by job creation.
The NDRC has said it will unveil an urbanization plan in the second half of this year.
Zhang added that China has the necessary means to maintain a relatively high growth rate in the future, considering the domestic demand potential to be released from urbanization.
He also reiterated that Beijing would speed up efforts to deepen reforms in energy prices, the financial sector and fiscal and tax systems to better allocate resources and narrow the wealth gap in the country.
more here:
http://in.reuters.com/article/
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I'm still watching and waiting for more evidence, but I think this fits just fine.
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