The Empty Cities of China

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.