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IMAGES: China's modern ghost town

IMAGES: China's modern ghost town

Rediff.com20 May 2011

About 30 km north of Dongsheng is the Kangbashi district of Ordos, which means 'palaces' in the Mongolian language, an area filled with thousands of residential apartments and duplex-style homes, built to house mainly workers for the nearby coal mines just outside the town.