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Kangbashi is a district of the Chinese city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, situated 1 hour from Beijing.

In 2003, Ordos city officials decided to plan for future expansion, fuelled by economic growth from the districts coal mining and gas extraction. A 1 million person new city district was planned, located on a greenfield site 25 kilometres (16 mi) from the existing city. As of 2010, the city has capacity for at least 300,000 people.

Kangbashi was made world famous by a news report from AlJazeera, later picked up and expanded through an article in Time magazine,^[1] for having few residents but massive amounts of empty residential housing and high-tech public works projects. Subsequent reports have supported the claims that Kangbashi only presently houses around 20,000 to 30,000 people.

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^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1975336,00.html Time magazine article

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+'''Kangbashi''' is a district of the [[China|Chinese]] city of [[Ordos]], [[Inner Mongolia]], situated 1 hour from [[Beijing]].
+In 2003, Ordos city officials decided to plan for future expansion, fuelled by economic growth from the districts coal mining and gas extraction. A 1 million person new city district was planned, located on a greenfield site {{convert|25|km|mi}} from the existing city. As of 2010, the city has capacity for at least 300,000 people.
-'''Kangbashi''' is a district of the Chinese city [[Ordos]], situated 1 hour from Beijing. It was made famous by western media in 2010 for having few residents but massive amounts of empty residential housing and high-tech public works projects <ref name="time">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1975336,00.html Time magazine article</ref>.
+Kangbashi was made world famous by a news report from [[AlJazeera]], later picked up and expanded through an article in [[Time magazine]],<ref name="time">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1975336,00.html Time magazine article</ref> for having few residents but massive amounts of empty residential housing and high-tech public works projects. Subsequent reports have supported the claims that Kangbashi only presently houses around 20,000 to 30,000 people.
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