Chinas Ghost Cities In 2. The Ordos Shopping Mall. SchmitzMarketplaceAmerican Public. Chinas ghost cities arent going away. Even as Beijing wants. Music of China refers to the music of the Chinese people, which may be the music of the Han Chinese as well as other ethnic minorities within mainland China. GDP targeting and is more. China. A report from CLSAs Nicole Wong. The Wall Street Journal, found that the problem lies. Chinas third tier cities. Vacancy rates. for homes constructed in the past five years stand at 1. Wong. Rob Schmitz, China correspondent for MarketplaceAmerican Public. Media, recently ran a story titled Chinas. The Music Of China Minorities Music Ethnic minorities are found all over China. In the 1950s the new communist government dispatched teams to record minority music. PEP Piano and Erhu Project Standing Wave Ensemble SOLD OUT 730 pm Roundhouse Performance Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver. Mandopop refers to Mandarin popular music. The English term was coined around 1980 soon after Cantopop became a popular term for describing popular songs in. We reached out. to Schmitz to get an update on Kangbashi. Schmitz points out that one of the key differences between. Ordos now and back in October 2. Back in 2. 01. 0, residents of Kangbashi new city of. Ordos were defensive when the place was dubbed a ghost city, but. Schmitz said that many people had abandoned these ghost cities. He also points out what China bulls like. Stephen Roach have got wrong when they argue that these cities. Chinas urbanization plan. China Story Erhu' title='China Story Erhu' />Here is an excerpt from our email interview with Schmitz. Business Insider How has Ordos changed now from when it. Rob Schmitz I first visited Ordos in October. Western journalists had reported. When I returned this year, there were a lot of. Driver Lifecam 1.4 Windows 7. Back in 2. 01. 0, the few people who lived. Western media labeling the place. Issue. Published by the Australian Chamber of CommerceSouth China. C. Friendship Membership. Looking for information on the anime Saiunkoku Monogatari The Story of Saiunkoku Find out more with MyAnimeList, the worlds most active online anime and manga. When I showed for my first class, the women greeted me warmly, asking whether I could speak Mandarin. I told them I studied Chinese in college and lived in China for. Sean O Conner. Adelaide Festival Centre is a leader in AsianAustralian engagement and OzAsia Festival is integral to our focus on building cultural connections and engaging. This time, everyone I spoke to had come to an. Kangbashi the proposed new city of Ordos was. OK. with that.   I spoke to one of the largest developers while I. Kangbashi had a population density. Canada or the U. S. China, and he thought this was a draw for the city. But my. conversations with folks didnt confirm this. Ive never seen a. Canada nor in the U. S. as empty. as Kangbashi is today, and most of the people I spoke to during. I met dozens of migrant workers who were renting vacant office. Another big difference between this time and last was that the. Ordos government has moved its headquarters to Kangbashi, so. That said, the government of Ordos has actually. I walked through a development of more than a dozen 2. The same developer I mentioned above also. Chinas Ethnic Minority Traditional. Sports Games of 2. Kangbashi. It was surprising. Chinas own state run press. Ordos government has continued to build at the same rate as it. An empty street in front. Kangbashi. SchmitzMarketplaceAmerican Public. The last difference from last time is that real estate prices in. Kangbashi have plummeted since my visit in 2. I met dozens. of migrant workers who were renting vacant office spaces as. These spaces werent built. I visited was full of. I also visited a government office in charge of mediating. This is a very big problem in Ordos, as most. The. office was in charge of repossessing whatever assets they could. Their storage room was full of. TVs, and shelves full of dozens of. Baijiu Rice Wine which they had. BI Do the people that you meet in these ghost cities. RS Many have already returned home. Those who. are left are looking to make a little money and then leave when. Keep in mind that. Kangbashi the largely empty city. Dongsheng, which is known as the old city, and actually has a. Construction work on. Yujiapu, planned to be the financial capital of the world, has. Rob. SchmitzMarketplaceAmerican Public. BI Some, like Stephen Roach, have argued that these ghost cities. Chinas urbanization plan. In. your experience, does this add up RS Perhaps some of them can, but for the most. I dont agree with this statement. While it is true that. Zhengzhou, which. TV program 6. 0 Minutes profiled a couple of years ago as a. Ordos do not fit neatly into. Chinas urbanization plan. Roach uses the Pudong district of Shanghai as an example of a. Ordos just need. time. Its important to remember that 1. Pudong was built in the. China had even entered the WTO and was on the cusp. GDP growth. Chinas economy. Its slowing down and Chinas economic. Thats not an easy transition to make, especially for an. Pudong is in Shanghai, which is strategically. Ordos is. in the middle of the desert and is running out of groundwater. If all of these ghost cities and ghost suburbs were part of a. Beijing by the central government, Id. China. Instead, most of the housing thats been built. I have a. hard time believing people will eventually move into these empty. The other thing to keep in mind is that many of. Chinas. economy to return to its glory days. I think another danger is. China itll. devastate the financial stability of cities like Ordos. I think its important to remember, too, that the ghost city. China is partially due to how local governments are. Local governments in China are in a. Beijing often neglects to help with. Because the Party owns all of the land in China, local. Of course this has the added benefit. Matlab 2009A Torrent more. GDP figures, increasing the chance that local leaders. Party. Ordos has issued a. Before then, the government is. Chinese Ethnic Games. Rob. SchmitzMarketplaceAmerican Public. Media. BI Do you see more Chinese ghost cities propping upIs. It was a Chinese version of Simon and Garfunkels Sound of. Silence played with a Chinese erhu. RS I think each ghost cityghost suburb should. Some of them will survive weve. Zhengzhou and even in. Shanghai that have filled out but many. I was talking with Arthur Kroeber at GK Dragonomics a. Chinas economy, and he was telling me about the city of Guiyang. Guizhou, has an 8. GDP ratio, which is incredibly dangerous. Arthurs. usually pretty bullish on Chinas prospects, but he threw his. Chinas poorest. The FTs moving to The Economist soon. Simon Rabinovitch did a great story about all of Guiyangs empty. I think whether we see more ghost cities popping up depends on. GDP based local official evaluation system and the. Rob. SchmitzMarketplaceAmerica Public. BI Whats the most bizarre experience youve had in Chinas. RS My first morning in Kangbashi, I woke up and. There wasnt a soul in sight, and the first. The only other sound was. Muzak pumping through the speakers from the hotel. As I looked. around for any signs of life, I suddenly recognized the song. It. was a Chinese version of Simon and Garfunkels Sound of Silence. Chinese erhu. Click here for Schmitzs full story. Note Photos and captions reproduced with permission from.