From the Daily Mail – Dec 18, 2010

These amazing satellite images show
sprawling cities built in remote parts of China that have been left
completely abandoned, sometimes years after their construction.

Elaborate
public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with the
exception of a few government vehicles near communist authority offices.

Some estimates put the number of
empty homes at as many as 64 million, with up to 20 new cities being
built every year in the country’s vast swathes of free land.

The photographs have emerged as a
Chinese government think tank warns that the country’s real estate
bubble is getting worse, with property prices in major cities
overvalued by as much as 70 per cent.