Mysterious Structures Found In China's Desert On Google Earth

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Pupik
Anyone checked out Kangbashi yet?

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Holy mother of unused infrastructure! Thirty thousand citizens located in Inner Mongolia, for a city planned for one million inhabitants, all from nothing in the past 7-8 years.
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Seems a communist habit to plan way too far ahead. :lol:
 
Kangbashi reminds me of Brasilia, in the beginning only a few people lived there and they didn't expect it to boom all that quickly because it was literally in the middle of nowhere. Now look at it today!

I'm sure given time these places (which have amazing town planning and architecture) will fill as there is there's a massive shortage of housing on the planet and a rising population.
 
Pupik
The story goes that coal-mining suddenly became big in that area around 2000 or so, thus the need to house the workers and the...coal miner's daughters?
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Oh my darlin', oh my darlin', oh my darlin whatsername...

Robin.
Kangbashi reminds me of Brasilia, in the beginning only a few people lived there and they didn't expect it to boom all that quickly because it was literally in the middle of nowhere. Now look at it today!

I'm sure given time these places (which have amazing town planning and architecture) will fill as there is there's a massive shortage of housing on the planet and a rising population.
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Brasilia is also the first thing that came to mind here... though the Brazilian government pushed it by making Brasilia the capital of Brazil, spurring growth.

Somehow, I don't think the comrades in Beijing will be willing to go that far.

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Seeing this thread kind of reminds me of this article from not long ago:

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http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html
 
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Additionally with some of the newly created cities, it does mean that it offers lower rental and cheaper living than living somewhere like Shanghai or Macau due to the appallingly low demand. Plus, you kinda have to remember that China has a massive population. It has to house them all somewhere.

Better to have a surplus than to be found wanting.

akiraacecombat
I also wonder about those blue rooftops, those are sort of predominant in China.
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Blue rooftops = Apartments. They are actually apartments and for some reason, blue rooftops are very popular. Not quite sure why, but they are.
 
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Blue rooftops = Apartments. They are actually apartments and for some reason, blue rooftops are very popular. Not quite sure why, but they are.
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Hmm... I see, I also saw a lot of blue rooftops in the Shanghai/Beijing industrial areas as well.

Apart from that I did a little research over that massive warehouse:

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and it turns out to be a potassium chloride factory(according to wikipedia, located in Lop Lake).

I'm not really sure if wikipedia can be trusted, but the warehouse is massive(if it is indeed a warehouse).
 
They look like evaporation ponds to me. They might be scavenging some sort of chemical after local ground water, pumped up from underground, evaporates in those ponds. They'd be some pretty gnarmongous evaporation ponds, but their coloration and gradient effect is common for evaporation ponds.
 
sumbrownkid
Probably just a factory for the iPhone.
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lol it's obviously unlikely to bother to build a single factory in the middle of a vast desert isolated from access of local people... :lol:

This shows the complete weirdness of what was thought out by the Chinese government/administration and their tendency of mimicry... but were the lines drawn in the desert meant to be the paths for migrants willing to live in a countryside with less population?
 
YellowBird23
lol it's obviously unlikely to bother to build a single factory in the middle of a vast desert isolated from access of local people... :lol:

This shows the complete weirdness of what was thought out by the Chinese government/administration and their tendency of mimicry... but were the lines drawn in the desert meant to be the paths for migrants willing to live in a countryside with less population?
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I don't know man, my brother worked for the Apple store, and all his coworkers agree Apple tends to operate like the CIA does...shady.
 

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