中国最富的城市居然是四线小城？“中国鬼城”人均GDP超北上广深，背后原因让人意外

中国最富的城市居然是四线小城？“中国鬼城”人均GDP超北上广深，背后原因让人意外

Friends, let me ask you a question: which city do you think is the richest in China? You may guess Beijing , Shanghai, or Shenzhen, where opportunities are everywhere. But what if I tell you that none of these are correct? There is such a city whose per capita GDP in 2024 will exceed 280,000 yuan, becoming the first in the per capita GDP ranking of all cities in the country , surpassing Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. What does this mean? Let me put it this way: the annual income of a Beijing citizen plus a Shanghai citizen combined may not be as much as that of an ordinary person in this city. The children here go to school for 12 years from kindergarten to high school without spending a penny , and the government covers everything . This place is rich in wool, coal, rare earths, Natural gas is good, and sheep coal is earthy. Eighteen provinces in our country rely on it for electricity supply. This city that sounds extremely rich is Ordos in Inner Mongolia, a place rich enough to rival a country. On our urban map, it is just an ordinary fourth-tier city. But don’t be too surprised. What will subvert your cognition is yet to come. In the past ten years, Ordos has also had a louder and more eerie nickname: Ghost Town. On one side is the myth of glittering wealth, while on the other side are empty streets and buildings. What is going on? How can a place that is extremely rich be associated with the word “ghost”? Now, more than ten years have passed since the most popular ghost town rumors. That city that once shocked the world… Has the city truly come alive, or has its prosperity faded, leaving only a vast empty shell? Today , let us push aside the fog and explore the stories closest to the truth beneath the halo and controversy of Ordos. To understand Ordos, you must first shift your gaze from the city on the map, imagining yourself standing on a vast grassland , with solid earth beneath your feet and an endless sky before your eyes. For a long time, this land has been known for its sandstorms, pastures , and the hardworking and tenacious Mongolian people. People say that here are sheep, coal, and earth. These four words are the code for Ordos’ wealth. Sheep are world-class, and Albas goat wool is known as soft gold. The soil
accounts for half of China’s reserves, and the rare earth kaolin accounts for one-third of China’s reserves
. Any one of these three would be enough to sustain a place for several lifetimes. But what truly changed the fate of this city was the simplest-sounding yet most powerful thing: coal. Under the 87,000 square kilometers of land in Ordos lies a vast black ocean, with proven reserves exceeding 167.6 billion tons, accounting for one-sixth of the country’s total reserves. It can be said that the land is practically paved with coal. After 2000, China’s economy began to accelerate . This huge engine of development required a constant supply of energy, and thus Ordos’ coal ushered in its golden age. What kind of era was that? An old local transport driver recalled that in 2002, one ton of coal… It only sold for a few dozen yuan at the port, but within a few years the price skyrocketed to 400 or 500 yuan , and even approached the 1,000 yuan mark at its peak. Overnight, the black stones under their feet really turned into gold. Gold prospectors from all over China and even the world heard the news and came. They plunged into this grassland with equipment, technology and courage. As long as they could get a piece of land from the government, they would dig up the surface soil and find shiny black coal underneath. At that time , there was a saying in the local area that there were two groups of people who could make a fortune in Ordos: one group was the coal miners, and the other group was the ones who granted land to the coal miners. This was the beginning of the era of coal bosses. In China at that time, this term was almost synonymous with wealth . Most of them came from grassroots backgrounds with low education, but they made their fortunes through their lives. Human courage and the opportunities of the times quickly accumulated wealth that ordinary people could not imagine in several lifetimes. An early coal boss who later changed his career to the restaurant industry half-jokingly told the people who came to visit him that at that time, he didn’t understand what capital operation was. He only knew that money came too fast. How fast was it? The cash at home was all packed in sacks because the bank’s money detector couldn’t count money fast enough to keep up with the speed at which I made money. But the money came and went quickly. The most common scene in Ordos at that time was that at the opening of a real estate project, people were not looking at houses but rushing to buy them . The sales staff had no time to explain the house types and directions because the buyers just pointed to the sand table and asked if the building was still available and they wanted to take it all. Then
they opened the trunk and carried several boxes full of cash to buy. Houses are as easy to come by as buying cabbages at the market. This almost crazy accumulation of wealth is quickly reflected in the city’s economic data. Let’s look at a set of the latest data for comparison. In 2024, Ordos’s per capita GDP reached a staggering 285,300 yuan. What level is this? In the same year, the per capita GDP of Shanghai, China’s economic center, was 217,100 yuan , and the capital Beijing was 228,200 yuan. In other words , the annual income of an ordinary citizen in Ordos is much higher than that of people in the two first-tier cities of Beijing and Shanghai. And wealth must eventually be converted into tangible living benefits. Ordos has done this very directly. They became the first region in the country to implement 12 years of free education from kindergarten to high school. Children here don’t have to pay a cent for their education ; the government covers all expenses. This confidence stems not only from the city’s wealth but also from the city being one of the country’s energy hubs. It single-handedly guarantees the energy supply for 18 provinces. The heaters used for heating in winter and the lights that light up at night all come from the steady output of Ordos. In that era of wealth explosion, the whole city was filled with a sense of grandeur, a sense that money was not money. A popular joke best illustrates the situation at the time. A stranger arrived in Ordos and saw the streets full of Land Rovers and Hummers. He enviously said to his local friends, “You guys are so rich here!” The local friends sighed and replied, “Ah, there are too many poor people here .” The stranger was puzzled . I see many people driving Land Rovers, and my local friends shake their heads. In our area, if you don’t have a 100 million yuan asset and drive a Land Rover, you ‘re considered poor . The garages of the truly wealthy are filled with cars we can’t even name. “A millionaire isn’t considered rich ” might sound like a fairy tale elsewhere, but in Ordos around 2010 , it was a simple, realistic portrayal. Wealth
poured down like a sudden, heavy rain without warning on this long-thirsty land. Herders became wealthy, towns became cities, everything was growing wildly, and everything was full of infinite possibilities. At that time, almost everyone believed that as long as the coal in the ground was still there, these good times would last forever. But what they didn’t know was that in this land built on wealth… Amidst the bustling scene, a huge and eerie shadow is quietly taking shape. It is this shadow that will shock the world in Ordos in a completely different way. Ordos has accumulated an astonishing amount of wealth overnight thanks to its underground coal reserves. So what would a city with such enormous wealth want to do? Ordos’ answer is to build a new city out of thin air, a city of the future. The embodiment of this dream is the Kangbashi New District. Ordos’ Dongsheng Old Town has approximately 300,000 people crammed into an area of 23 square kilometers. Traffic is congested, and water resources and other energy resources are in short supply. In 2003, the National People’s Congress passed a resolution to relocate the area , and in 2004, it officially started construction under the name of Kangbashi New District . Initial investment exceeded 50 million. 1.909 billion yuan was invested in infrastructure. The relocation of the municipal government and other party and government agencies in 2006 marked the official opening of the new urban area. If you first came to Kangbashi around 2008, you might have thought you had stumbled into a science fiction film set. The scenery here was completely different from any other Chinese city at the time. Its main road , Ordos Avenue, is wide enough for eight cars to drive abreast. Some people even joked that small planes could land here. You won’t see densely packed handshake buildings on both sides of the street . Instead , there are vast lawns, gardens, and sculpture parks. The entire city seems to be built in a huge park, and the buildings are full of imagination. Ordos Museum The museum resembles a massive, weathered rock from outer space, imbued with a primordial power. The library , designed like three massive tomes, lies quietly beneath the blue sky, as if inviting the entire sky to read. And the Grand Theater, like a Mongolian-inspired hat, is elegant and unique. You might say these buildings are common now, as if every city has one. But remember, just over a decade ago, in the millennium, such urban structures were enough to shock people’s worldviews . All of this stemmed from an extremely advanced planning concept. At the time, Chinese cities were pursuing the pursuit of high land prices, with ever- taller buildings and ever-tighter populations. But Kangbashi went the other way. Its planners practically sketched out the blueprint for an ideal country on a blank sheet of paper. What they pursued was not a crowded and prosperous city , but a comfortable, ecological and livable one. A scholar who participated in the early planning once said that we are not building a city for the next ten years , but for the next hundred years. They did it . This new city has top-notch municipal facilities, a complete underground pipeline network , a beautiful landscape lake and even the largest musical fountain in Asia at that time. From the hardware point of view, it is undoubtedly one of the most modern and comfortable cities in China and even the world at that time. It is an ideal city built for the next hundred years, an urban artwork built with real money. It is supposed to be a bustling place with people and traffic. But something strange happened here. In 2010, a reporter from Time magazine came to Ordos. He did not Impressed by the magnificent buildings and beautiful plans, he saw a completely different scene. The empty streets were dominated by the lonely figures of sanitation workers. The brand-new office building was pitch black, and the vast square was silent except for the sound of the wind . He climbed a nearby tall building and took a photo. In the photo, Kangbashi’s neat streets and clusters of buildings looked like a huge, exquisite city model. The only thing missing was people. A
report titled “Ordos, China: A Modern Ghost Town” shocked the world . The shocking label “Ghost Town” was attached to Ordos for the first time. The article was like a bomb that detonated public opinion. Western media quickly followed suit. Reporters flocked to this remote inland Chinese city to explore its wonders. The images they captured were all , without exception, empty streets, unfinished buildings, and residential buildings plunged into darkness at night. Some media even used satellite maps to survey Kangbashi from tens of thousands of meters above. The city’s outline was clearly visible , but it looked like a lifeless specimen. This distant, wealthy, yet deserted city. These selectively captured images perfectly matched the Western world’s then- current perception of China’s impending economic collapse. The term “ghost town” spread from abroad and quickly gained traction in China. So
was this label fabricated out of thin air? Not entirely. Looking at the data at the time, the contrast was staggering. According to the plan, Kangbashi The long-term goal of the new district is to accommodate a population of one million. However, around 2012, when the ghost town theory was at its peak, the entire new district’s permanent population was optimistically estimated to be less than 100,000. Looking at real estate, housing prices here were once inflated to over 20,000 yuan per square meter , comparable to first-tier cities. However, at the same time, the city’s residential vacancy rate is estimated to have remained above 70% or even 80% for a long time. On one hand, there are astronomical housing prices, on the other hand , there is an astonishing vacancy rate. On the one hand, there is the grand blueprint of a million people, and on the other hand, there is a reality of less than one-tenth of the population. This strong sense of disparity is the real root of the ghost town theory. So the question is, why is this so? Why is there no residents willing to move into a paradise built with money ? What is behind this? There are three deep-seated reasons that are closely linked. The first is that the speed of construction far exceeds the speed of human mobility. Building a city can be done quickly with bulldozers and tower cranes. Kangbashi was transformed from a desert into a modern city in just a few years . However, attracting people to live here is a much slower process. People are not made of steel and concrete. They need job opportunities , commercial facilities , hospitals, schools , and a lively society. At that time, Kangbashi had almost nothing except houses and government buildings. An ordinary person who wanted to live here would find that they had to go more than ten kilometers to buy groceries, see a doctor, and go to the old city dozens of kilometers away to meet friends. There was no place to go. The function of the city lagged seriously behind its construction shell. It was like building a luxury ship. The second reason is also the core reason. The houses here were not built for people to live in , but for people to pay for living. Remember the coal bosses and the demolition households we mentioned earlier? They had huge amounts of cash but no suitable investment channels. In Ordos at that time, there were no various funds and stocks like today. The rich and rough people could not play with such illusory things , but they could not see other new things. Buying a house became the only visible and tangible way to make money. So
Ordos In Ordos, a real estate speculation frenzy rarely seen in human history unfolded . It was like a game of pass the parcel, with everyone believing they could make money as long as they weren’t the last to receive the parcel. The residential nature of a house was completely ignored, turning it into a purely financial tool. People bought entire buildings not to renovate and move in , but to sell them to the next person a few months later at a higher price. Ordos resident Lao Zhang received tens of millions in compensation overnight for land acquisition. He used the money to buy 20 apartments in Kangbashi, but would he live there himself? The answer is, of course not. He and his family still live in their old house in the old city. Every day, he inquires about housing prices and figures out when to sell so that he can make the most of his money. If the assets doubled again, there were countless such Lao Zhangs in Kangbashi at that time. They were the owners of the houses , but not the owners of the city. They contributed to the astonishing housing prices and GDP of the city , but did not contribute to its popularity. When 90% of the houses in a city are for speculation and investment rather than for living, its fate of being vacant is doomed. The third reason goes back to what we said at the beginning. Its planning concept is too advanced. It is built for the next hundred years. This is such an ambitious slogan , but it also means that the design of this city is out of touch with the social development reality of Ordos at that time. It is a perfect urban living room prepared for the future high-quality, high-income middle class . But at that time, Ordos The majority of the population is still farmers and herdsmen freshly washed from the fields, and coal bosses who thrived on the resource boom. A gentleman in a tailored suit can’t adapt to the bustling rural market, and vice versa. People used to living in the countryside can’t adapt to the mismatch between the rapid pace of urban construction and population growth, the mismatch between investment demand and residential demand, and the mismatch between planning concepts and social reality. These three mismatches together created the most realistic and absurd image of Ordos Kangbashi in those years : a future-oriented, extremely expensive, deserted ghost town. This prosperity built on sand dunes was doomed to fail. The wealth game that swept the entire nation would eventually stop. Soon. The moment of judgment is approaching. This judgment will not come from the court , but from the laws of the market and the economic cycle. It will come swiftly and cruelly. First , the price of coal, the main artery supporting the entire wealth empire, has experienced an avalanche-like decline. Affected by the international market and domestic macro-control, the price of coal has been halved from a high of 1,000 yuan in a short period of time. The engine of Ordos’ economy has suddenly lost its momentum. Then , the internal financial dominoes have collapsed in a chain reaction. The drumbeat of the private lending game in which everyone participates has stopped. The coal bosses can’t repay the money, and the ordinary people who lent them money can’t get their principal back. The entire lending network based on personal relationships is instantly torn apart. The ultimate consequence is the complete collapse of the real estate market. The developers’ capital chain is broken and they run away. In the bankrupt city , large areas of real estate projects were stopped in an instant and turned into steel and concrete skeletons, which are the unfinished buildings we saw in the photos later. Don’t forget that in the years when wealth was booming, the ecology of this grassland has been seriously overdrawn due to disorderly exploitation . The groundwater level has dropped sharply. The once green grassland is being swallowed by desertification. The economic downturn, social pain and the harsh environment have combined to make this city fall heavily from the clouds of wealth myth around 2012. It is from that moment that the label of ghost town is no longer just an external misunderstanding , but a bloody scar that the people of Ordos have to face themselves. The current
situation of Ordos , more than ten years later What do we see when we set foot on this land again ? Is it a specimen sinking in hardship or a quiet resurrection? Let’s first look at the most intuitive data, because numbers never lie. The first number is the population . In 2010, the permanent population of Ordos was approximately 1.94 million . By 2024, this number had grown to over 2.24 million, a net increase of more than 300,000 people over the past decade. What does this mean, friends ? It means that on average, tens of thousands of people are not fleeing the city every year , but moving in with their families, choosing to settle down here. The second number is the occupancy rate of Kangbashi New District. At the height of the controversy, the occupancy rate here was once thought to be less than 20%. Today, according to official and multi-agency estimates, this figure has steadily risen to over 60%, with core areas reaching as high as 80%. We must acknowledge that a 60% occupancy rate still means a large number of vacant homes and a sparse population density for a city originally designed for a population of one million . Walking down Kangbashi’s broad streets, you’ll still feel a sense of emptiness unlike any other Chinese city , but this is a completely different concept from a lifeless ghost town . The third number might be the most surprising . If you ask Ordos what else they have besides sheep, coal, soil, and gas, they’ll proudly tell you: tourism. This city now boasts 28 national 4A-rated and above properties . The Kangbashi New District, once a ghost town surrounded by controversy, has become a national 4A-level tourist attraction. The population is flowing in , houses are being occupied, and new industries are booming. Judging from the data, Ordos seems to have not only emerged from the quagmire but also found a new path. However, data is macroscopic , while life is concrete . What is it like for an ordinary person to live in Ordos today ? This is where the city’s most interesting and core contradictions emerge . The first contradiction is the astonishing price of goods and the relatively reasonable price of housing. If you go to Ordos now and walk into any vegetable market, you will probably be shocked by the prices. Watermelons that cost a few cents per pound in the south cost five or six yuan per pound in Ordos . A large stone melon can easily cost hundreds of yuan, not to mention strawberries. A two-pound bag of strawberries costs one hundred yuan a bunch. Vegetables that cost two or three yuan in the south may cost more than ten yuan here . Because there are not many vegetables and fruits locally, most supplies rely on long-distance transportation. Some exquisite foods such as desserts and cakes are also shockingly expensive . Not to mention the catering industry. In a better restaurant, a simple breakfast of white porridge and sandwiches costs 48 yuan. A spicy hot pot with some vegetables costs more than 70 yuan. A bowl of beef noodles costs 2,230 yuan. Therefore, the basic cost of living is indeed higher than many first-tier cities. You may think that the pressure of life is too great when you hear this , but the wonderful thing is here. When you walk When you leave the supermarket and look at the nearby real estate, you’ll discover another fact : although housing prices have dropped , the average price is still just over 10,000 yuan . Compared to Ordos, which boasts one of the highest per capita incomes in the country, this price is a steal. Let’s do the math: a young person in Guangzhou might need decades to save up for a house, but in Ordos, an ordinary working-class family might only need seven or eight years to own a spacious and comfortable house. And that’s not all. Here, your children can enjoy top-tier educational resources nationwide. Ordos No. 1 Middle School has long been Inner Mongolia’s “cradle of Tsinghua and Peking University,” with an astonishing admission rate. Tuition is completely free at such schools. Ordos implements a 12-year tuition-free system from elementary school to high school . The free education policy has been in place for 12 years. In May 2025, Jungar Banner in Ordos achieved 15 years of free education for all stages of education. This is also the first county-level administrative region in China to complete free education for all stages of education. This means that children in Jungar Banner are exempt from tuition fees from kindergarten to high school. Not only that, the medical facilities here are also equipped to the highest standards. Now do you understand? Living in Ordos is like doing a wonderful arithmetic problem in life. You spend a little more money on buying vegetables, but you save a lot of money on children’s education and housing, the two heaviest mountains weighing on modern people . This is the reality of Ordos today: a rich city but also an atypical city with a unique lifestyle. This city offsets high daily consumption with high public welfare benefits. This profound transformation, this resurrection from within, has been witnessed not only by the Chinese, but also by the foreigners who first labeled it a ghost town . More than a decade has passed, and the foreign journalists and bloggers who came here in search of novelties have returned, but this time their headlines have taken a 180-degree turn. They no longer laugh at the empty streets , but marvel at the cleanliness and beauty of this park city. They no longer shoot dark buildings at night , but interview the children studying in the new school. A famous foreign video blogger sighed in his video after revisiting Kangbashi in 2023 : Ten years have passed. When I came here a while ago , I thought I saw a model of failure. Ten years later,
I stood here again and saw how a city overcame an almost impossible crisis with amazing determination and wisdom. It is no longer a ghost town , but a miracle of rebirth and hope. Behind the transformation of the word “ghost town” to “miracle” is Ordos ‘s more than ten years of struggle, reflection and self-rescue. How did it embark on this path of self-salvation? How did a city, once judged by both economic crisis and public opinion storm, crawl out of the almost certain ruins step by step? In this more than ten-year self-rescue, Ordos is a textbook case of urban crisis response. The local government demonstrated remarkable rationality and decisiveness. They got three major things right. The first was a decisive move: removing the financial burden from the source. After the crisis erupted, everyone saw that the city was overrun with empty houses. What should they do? Should they continue selling land and building? Ordos made what seemed an extremely difficult decision at the time. Starting in 2012, the central urban area , especially the Kangbashi New District, essentially stopped all new land for real estate development. This decision was like pulling the handbrake on a racing car that was racing out of control. Although painful, it cut off the possibility of further expansion of the bubble at the root, buying precious time to digest the huge number of existing vacant houses. The second major move , and the most decisive one, was to build a nest to attract the phoenix and precisely guide the flow of people. Simply building new houses wasn’t enough; they had to find ways to fill the existing empty houses. How could they attract people? Ordos launched a combination of punches, and the key to the punch was two words: “children.” They made a decision that could be called a stroke of genius. The city’s and even Inner Mongolia’s top educational resources, such as Ordos No. 1 Middle School and No. 1 Primary School, which have an astonishing enrollment rate, have been relocated to Kangbashi New District. This move directly hits the issue that all Chinese families care about most. In order to enable their children to attend good schools, countless families are willing to move here, not to mention from the old city dozens of kilometers away, even from neighboring Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Ningxia. A father who moved from Yulin in northern Shaanxi to Kangbashi for his children’s schooling said it very frankly: ” In my hometown, I may have to spend millions to buy an old and shabby school district house, and I may not be able to go to school . Here, I can live in a brand new big house with only one-third of the price, and my children can also receive the best free education in the country. Everyone can do the math. Education is like… A huge magnet has attracted the most valuable high-quality population in the form of families to Kangbashi . What should be done if houses are not enough even though people have come ? Ordos has invented a financial instrument called housing tickets . When demolishing old urban areas, the government no longer directly gives cash but gives you a housing ticket with the number of square meters of house you can exchange for. With this ticket, you can go to the government-designated commercial housing complex and directly exchange for a house. This policy kills two birds with one stone. On the one hand, the displaced households are resettled, and on the other hand, a large number of vacant houses in the hands of developers are accurately digested. In just two years from 2016 to 2017, Ordos digested more than 10 million square meters of commercial housing inventory in this way. This is a In addition to education and housing, the government has also vigorously improved the supporting facilities of the new district , turning Kangbashi into a real park city. At the same time, it has vigorously supported coal deep processing, big data centers and new energy industries to create new jobs for the influx of people. The third major thing is not accomplished by the government , but by every ordinary person living here in their daily lives. As we said before, many of the first people to move to Kangbashi were civil servants . They were forced to move here and were somewhat reluctant. But as time went by, when they found that the environment here was getting better and better and life was getting more and more convenient, their mentality changed and they began to actively defend this city. When you hear people still using the old words online or in real life, When people mocked Kangbashi as a ghost town, they would be the first to stand up and refute it. A Kangbashi resident posted online: ” Whether our hometown is a ghost town or not, we, the residents, know best.” You are welcome to come and see, but please do not slander it with prejudice. This identity recognition, transformed from residents to guardians, is a force more powerful than any policy. They use daily walks, shopping, children’s laughter , and greetings between neighbors to warm up those once empty streets and cold buildings, bit by bit , turning a physical new district into an emotional home. The determination to cut off one’s own arm, the wisdom of precise drainage , and the residents’ heartfelt recognition, these three forces, twisted together, eventually pulled Ordos out of the quagmire . The ground was pulled up, and it really came back to life. But does being alive mean there are no problems? Behind this thrilling resurrection drama, have the deep-seated concerns that once led to its destruction really been completely resolved? This is the deeper truth that we need to continue to question. First of all,
the most fundamental problem is the over-reliance on resources . To this day, Ordos is still a coal city. According to the latest data, more than 90% of its fiscal revenue still comes directly or indirectly from coal and energy-related industries. This means that the city’s economic lifeline is still fragile and tied to the fluctuation of coal prices. Today, high coal prices mean the city is prosperous. If the market changes again tomorrow, what will the crisis of more than ten years ago bring? Will it happen again in another form? This is the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of all Ordos people. Secondly, resources will eventually run out. This is the ultimate fate that all resource-based cities cannot avoid. Although the coal underground in Ordos can be mined for another hundred years , a hundred years is just a blink of an eye in the long river of history . When the black gold underfoot is mined, what will happen to the city built on it? Once again, it is a human issue. Although the total population of the city is growing , a phenomenon that cannot be ignored is that Ordos is still facing the outflow of young people. Many outstanding local high school students who are admitted to famous universities outside the province prefer to choose to seek opportunities in first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai after graduation rather than return to their hometown . For a city that can’t retain its best young people is slowly losing its future. This leads us to the ultimate reflection on the Ordos model: is it a Chinese miracle worth learning from , or a resource curse that is difficult to replicate and requires vigilance? It took just over a decade to complete the urbanization process that took Western countries hundreds of years, creating a myth of wealth. This is a miracle , but it also suffered a nearly devastating blow due to its over-reliance on resources and has not yet been able to completely break free of this dependence , which is another manifestation of the curse. Of course,
the people of Ordos themselves understand these issues better than anyone else. Today, a deeper and more difficult transformation is quietly taking place in this city . They are vigorously deploying new energy and expanding the use of resources. Vast land and abundant sunshine allow them to build wind power and photovoltaic bases, attempting to shift from coal mining to chasing the wind and the sun. They are also utilizing the unique grassland and desert landscape to develop tourism. At the same time, they have also planned high-end manufacturing parks such as equipment manufacturing and new materials, trying to equip the single economic structure with more support. This new battle is much more difficult and lengthy than the de-ghost town campaign. It no longer tests the wisdom of crisis response , but a city’s imagination for the future and its perseverance. The story of Ordos does not end here, it has only completed the most thrilling chapter. Its future is still full of unknowns and challenges , and every step it takes , whether it is the glory and madness of the past or the struggle and reflection later. They all provide an invaluable yet heavy reference answer for countless other Chinese cities that are exploring the path of development. And this reference answer ultimately points to all Chinese people, especially those living in cities that have prospered by relying on certain specific resources. These are issues worth thinking about together. After all , there are too many cities like Ordos in China , coal cities in the northeast, oil cities in the northwest, and mining cities in the southwest. Their destinies are deeply tied to a certain specific resource under their feet . Do all cities have the financial resources and determination of Ordos to complete such a difficult transformation? Friends in front of the screen, especially those from similar resource-based cities, we want to hear your stories and opinions. Has your hometown also experienced a similar stage of prosperity and hardship due to resources? How are you dealing with future challenges? Do you think Ordos’s path today is of reference significance to your hometown ? Please write your thoughts in the comment area. It is not easy to make long videos. Everyone is welcome to follow, like, collect and forward them. Our next video will be more exciting.

🌕🌕【本期简介】🌕🌕
中国最富有的城市，竟然是一座”鬼城”。
人均GDP高达28万元，超越北京、上海、深圳，却曾经空无一人。
耗资数千亿建造的未来之城，入住率一度不足20%，被外媒嘲笑为”现代鬼城”。
这就是内蒙古鄂尔多斯——一座用”羊煤土气”堆出来的财富传奇。

煤老板时代的疯狂，现金用麻袋装；康巴什新区的空旷，宽得能降飞机的大街却见不到行人。
一边是流光溢彩的财富神话，一边却是空空荡荡的街道楼房。
从幼儿园到高中12年免费教育，保障全国18个省份的能源供应，这座城市富得让人难以置信。
但为什么投资数千亿的理想之城，却变成了举世瞩目的”空城”？

16年过去了，曾经的”鬼城”现在怎么样了？人口增长30万的复活奇迹是如何发生的？
一座城市的生死存亡，一场资源与转型的较量。
本期视频，我们将深入探访这座最富有的”鬼城”
揭开财富与空虚并存的真相，见证一座城市从辉煌到沉沦再到重生的完整历程。

★☆★章节时间轴☆★☆
00:00 – 中国富城 vs 中国鬼城
04:33 – 人均收入超越北上广深的真相
09:20 – “鬼城”是误解还是现实？
14:55 – 城市崩塌，财富神话瞬间破灭
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