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We Built This City!
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this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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Not all cities start from villages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_China
Some cities are literally just built into the empty space, then wait until people move in. It has worked multiple times in China. Some cities literally went from zero to a million inhabitants in under 20 years.
Every village needs its WellAckshuallyer
I actually remember this one. Weren't western articles shitting on China endlessly for this? Calling it "ghost cities" and making up conspiracy theories and all.
You still get lemmitors who think China just has empty cities made of tofu, trains that nobody uses, giant concentration camps full of people whos only crime was desiring freedom, and that china will collapse any day now.