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My hometown is Wujin, Changzhou, the second city this post described. I lived there for almost 20 years. It has never been a ghost city as I known. It is always flourishing. If this place will be called ghost city, I don't know how you describe most United States cities.

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That is the point of the article.

The article is a list of places that are not ghost cities, even though they have been described as such by idiots in the press.

Actually he claims they used to be ghost cities: "Below are five new cities in China that have advanced through the ghost city phase and have come to life."

The preceding paragraphs before that line all attack the press concept of the Chinese ghost city though, so in the context of that line, ghost city is meaning 'normal city still under construction' rather than 'giant Potemkin village never to be filled'.

Couldn't not agree with more. The report is wrong, the author did't familiar with China at all.

What the report actualy says:

>It’s actually extremely difficult to cross the street in Wujin, which doesn’t bode well for the argument that it’s a ghost town.

Did you read it? The linked article is pointing out that these cities are not ghost towns at all.

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