In the past 50 years, China has built around 500 new cities. The country’s sprawling new urban areas have been instrumental ...

It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.

Two seemingly contradictory realities co-exist in China: on one hand, Chinese cities are overpopulated, while on the other hand, there are also empty cities and tall skyscrapers almost entirely ...