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Are NEW Chinese buildings really FALLING DOWN?

ADVChina · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Macroeconomics & financial crisesCivil engineering & constructionGeopolitics & foreign policy

What it is

The ADVChina hosts tour a villa neighborhood in southern China that was built only three years earlier and is already empty and deteriorating. They use it to discuss ghost cities, building quality and the real estate bubble.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it in threads on China's housing glut and construction quality as visual evidence of poor, empty new buildings.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “ADV China youtube channel has covered this with some great video of new construction problems in China”

    Covers new construction problems in China.

    ballenf, 2018-08 · Recommendation · in “Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers”

  2. “This video from last year was pretty eye opening to me.”

    Uninhabited new ghost cities crumbling.

    ajflores1604, 2019-07 · Recommendation · in “China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: china, real estate, ghost towns, construction quality, housing bubble

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