This is Zhengdong New Area, the Hennan Province ghost city toured by "60 Minutes."
The central business district features a ring of significantly vacant skyscrapers.
Nearby are housing developments with few signs of habitation.
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip AdThis is just the start of a massive expansion meant to create a new city with a population of 5 million.
Developers are reportedly running out of money and abandoning projects midway through construction.
Meanwhile in Yunnan Province, Chenggong is building skyscrapers by the hundreds.
Source: Forensic Asia Limited
Chenggong already has 100,000 new apartments with no occupants.
Source: Forensic Asia Limited
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip AdChenggong has empty housing developments everywhere you look.
Chenggong has two new universities, both of them which look mostly empty.
Source: Forensic Asia Limited
Meanwhile in Inner Mongolia, Ordos is full of housing developments with few signs of life.
Check out this empty luxury development.
The construction boom in Ordos suddenly came to a halt last year.
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip AdDespite the "ghost" areas, Ordos hosted the Miss World beauty pageant in 2012 (it does not lack in impressive public buildings).
Meanwhile in Jiangsu there are empty housing developments as far as the eye can see.
Meanwhile in Hunan Province, Changsha — a city twice as big as Los Angeles —is expanding rapidly to the east and the west.
A closer look at empty developments outside Chengsha.
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip AdOut in Inner Mongolia, Erenhot was built in the middle of a desert.
While the city is mostly unfinished or uninhabited, of course there is a monumental local government building (or is that a luxury hotel?).
There are also some large empty developments in Xinyang.
Take a closer look: See anyone?
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip AdWith as many as 64 million vacant apartments in China, this could be just the tip of the iceberg.
A big housing crash could cause big problems