The city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, China, was founded on February 26, 2001.
Ordos means “palaces” in Mongolian, and it’s richer than Beijing.
With 1,548,000 inhabitants, Ordos is not exactly empty.
The density of this city is only 17.8 people per square kilometer.
The Kangbashi district began as a public-works project in Ordos, a wealthy coal-mining town in Inner Mongolia.
A pair of workers tidy up outside the public library.
The city boasts the second highest per-capita income, behind to Shanghai but ahead of Beijing.
Workers carry pieces of foam up the stairs of the Ordos Museum, which is still under construction.
A pedestrian walks behind a giant sculpture of two horses in Kangbashi’s Linyinlu Square.
Mostly empty apartment buildings stand in the distance.
A pedestrian walks past a mostly unoccupied commercial area.
Almost no businesses have moved into the new district.
Empty streets remain empty even during the morning commute.
Construction projects in Kangbashi continue despite the lack of occupancy.
An old man pushes a cart across a road segregating finished apartments and apartments still under construction.
Workers construct a plaza for un-present residents of an apartment complex.
