It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.

The construction boom that accompanied China's rapid economic rise sparked a wave of large-scale residential and commercial projects across the country. This gave rise to vast, under-inhabited ...

Shifting industrial landscape has left its mark on Chinese cities built for the migrant workers. Large urban areas have become “ghost cities”, left unoccupied when the expected rush of inhabitants ...