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World Service,19 Mar 2012,10 mins

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Owen Bennet Jones presents a report from Peter Day who has visited a ghost town in China. Ordos New Town in Inner Mongolia has brand new buildings and roads, but very few people. Built during a boom, it did not attract as many people as expected. And of those that did come, many have invested money but not managed to get the returns they expected.

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