Meant as home for one million people, the Kangbashi district remains nearly empty five years after construction beganPhotographs by Michael Christopher Brown for TIME The Kangbashi district began as a ...

It has huge reserves of coal and natural gas, a fast-growing economy and a property market so sizzling hot that virtually every house put up for sale here is immediately snapped up. There is just one ...

HOHHOT, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Having worked in Ordos in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for nearly six years, Zhang Xin, a clerk at a property management company, is relieved to have ...

HOHHOT－After living in Kangbashi for two years, Jon Steenbeke now regards this emerging district of Ordos, a city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, as his second hometown. Steenbeke, a ...

Ordos Kangbashi is a new city of world-class architecture, extravagant public plazas, international scale stadiums, and seas of crisp new housing that rose up from the barren deserts of China's Inner ...

The Kangbashi district of Ordos, China is a marvel of urban planning, 137-square miles of shining towers, futuristic architecture and pristine parks carved out of the grassland of Inner Mongolia. It ...

Two policemen guard the outside of a police office shaped like a Mongolian yurt near Shuangju Square in Kangbashi District, capital of Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Recently, two police ...

Built for over a million people, the city of Ordos was designed to be the crowning glory of Inner Mongolia. Doomed to incompletion however, this futuristic metropolis now rises empty out of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I travel the world reporting on emerging markets and China overseas. The first time I arrived in Ordos Kangbashi was in the spring ...

HOHHOT, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Strolling down the crowded streets of Kangbashi, Aaron Patterson felt fresh and revitalized, soaking himself in lush scholar trees and blooming malus rubies. The ...