Why has China built a ghost town in Africa?

[Dalton Fury]

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It was supposed to be a state-of-the-art city for 500,000 - but eerie footage shows how a Chinese-built urbanisation is at risk of becoming Africa's first 'ghost town'.

Constructed on the outskirts of Angola's capital city Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba has 750 eight-storey blocks of flats, a dozen schools and more than 100 shop units.

But, crucially, it has no residents, and many of the nearby slum-dwellers cannot afford the £75,000 price-tag to move in.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168507/Footage-shows-brand-new-Angolan-city-designed-500-000-lying-empty.html

[Hayalet]

If they want to sell the flats, they should build some factories around the place. No reason for farmers or herders to live there.


Sebastiao Antonio, 17, who travels on a bus from an outlying area for three hours a day to get to one of the opened schools, told the BBC: 'I really like this place.

'It's got car parking, places for us to have games like football, basketball and handball. It's very quiet, much calmer than the other city, there's no criminality.'

But when asked if his family would move there, he said: 'No way, we can't afford this. It's impossible. And there is no work for my parents here.'

[Contra Mundum]

Africa will never modernize. Even when development is handed the them. They couldn't maintain the infrastructure colonials built for them.

[Dalton Fury]

Africa will never modernize. Even when development is handed the them. They couldn't maintain the infrastructure colonials built for them.

They are inferior sub-humans compared to whites and asians

[Dead Eye]

With China being overpopulated and the Chinese being in Africa grabbing the resources,i think its fair to say that this is for when the Chinese move in to colonise Africa.

Remember that the Chinese hate the Africans with a passion and they haven't been treating the Africans with much dignity or respect since they arrived.

[PeacefulCaribbeanDutch]

*Ghost Towns*

they are all over africa mining the oil and goods from them, and maybe they plan on buying some land later on.

[Quorra]

If China can sort out Africa then good luck to them. We can't afford to have that mad house as our responsibility any longer.

[Rouxinol]

Why? I don't know, maybe they're swimming in money. 99,99% of Angolans don't have the money to buy any flat in a Chinese communist-planned town. The wealth is monopolized in José Eduardo dos Santos, his family and black elite friends bank accounts and investments. The only ones who can move in to such flats are foreigners (Asians, Europeans, Americans...) working there in multinational companies.

[Quorra]

actually there's heaps of of these new ghost estates in China too.

The idea is they won't let the property price go down and would rather they were empty. That's how China rolls.



As sprawling housing developments and skyscrapers in one of the world's most populous countries, these tower blocks and recently-built neighbourhoods should be busy and swarming with people.

But on closer inspection these stunning pictures show elaborate public buildings and open spaces which are left completely empty.

The most recent pictures of unused housing emerged as China announced plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005231/Chinas-ghost-towns-New-satellite-pictures-massive-skyscraper-cities-STILL-completely-empty.html#ixzz20Cly8888


It's a cruel regime indeed, but so was Britain as it rose to be the superpower. The British Empire was build on the suffering of the British people, not as modern wackos would have you believe, foreigners.

China hasn't lost this ruthlessness.:(

[Libertas]

actually there's heaps of of these new ghost estates in China too.

The idea is they won't let the property price go down and would rather they were empty. That's how China rolls.




It's a cruel regime indeed, but so was Britain as it rose to be the superpower. The British Empire was build on the suffering of the British people, not as modern wackos would have you believe, foreigners.China hasn't lost this ruthlessness.:(

Empires are usually built on the suffering of the so-called dominant people.

Only a small elite benefits, eg the Roman Empire whose rich have been compared to vampire bats sucking the lifeblood out of the poor (including the peoples of Italy).

[MST3K]

After China deals with the Angolan government, a large wave of workers will come and mine the untapped resources in the area. I mean it's not like the africans can figure that out for themselves.

[Quorra]

These are empty estates in China. While most people live in hovels.

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At least they have a creative way of booming the economy and creating jobs.

We just pulp all our old growth forests and make extra call centres etc.