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China's Empty City of Ordos

Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera revisits the town of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, which, as she reported two years ago, was a ghost city being built out of nothing in the desert with government funds: Read more about Ordos via CDT.
September 10, 2011 9:22 PM

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