China has built around 500 new cities. The country’s sprawling new urban areas have been instrumental to its economic surge, ...

Under-inhabited developments remain stark reminders the 2000s–2010s property market bubble, which one expert likened to a ...

The U.S. Navy has only four active public shipyards. Meanwhile, China has at least 35 sites with known ties to military or ...

its cities are still some of the largest on Earth. In fact, some are so big that they have started to merge into one massive mega-settlement. Part of China’s Guangdong province in the Pearl ...

China divides its population into rural and city dwellers. People who come to the big cities from elsewhere are not entitled to the same social benefits as people born in the cities, and sometimes ...

But given China’s vast and fragmented real estate market, other analysts caution that early signs of a rebound in some big cities may not translate into a broad recovery. Even as the market ...