Are NEW Chinese buildings really FALLING DOWN?

ADV China youtube channel has covered this with some great video of new construction problems in China (not implying the problem is only there): [VIDEO]

This video from last year was pretty eye opening to me. Shows uninhabited "new" ghost cities completely crumbling. There's no underlying value to the property bubble going on over there and the scale seems mind blowing. [VIDEO]

"Immediately above us towered what could have been the headquarters of a bank — forty floors of office space, wrapped in a shell of mirrored panels. In its un-maintained state however, these reflective scales were falling away in great swathes, to expose the bare concrete beneath. Not even finished yet, and already it needed a makeover." [LINK] "the farmers that own the land here get the cheapest materials, and make these pop up out of nowhere": [LINK] Follow-up video "Are new chinese buildings really falling down?": [VIDEO] tl;dr yes. Note at 2:30 "We saw this place being built three years ago".

These are concrete structures, 20 stories tall, that are collapsing in less than a decade. This isn't a case of lack of maintenance, but poor construction trying to goose GDP. [VIDEO]

Yeah, I watch a few YouTube channels of Americans in China and the ghost towns are still everywhere. Their buildings in general also seems to be of extremely poor quality, but it's one of those topics that's socially unacceptable to discuss. Here's a recent example: [VIDEO]

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. The construction quality in mainland China is terrible. I've witnessed a lot of it, myself, but this video was posted on HN a couple of days ago: [VIDEO] As bad as that is, it only scratches the surface because they didn't actually go inside any of the buildings. It would be unimaginable for a building outside of the Chinese bubble to literally start collapsing upon itself after standing on its own for only three years.

State socialism/communism. Everything is provided, decided, controlled, influenced, reviewed, rethought by and via the state (in some representation, the party, the government, the local government, some group or other, an official, someone with connections, the police, or even just a faceless automated system/website/machine). This reminds people that everything is temporary, effort is futile, etc. This makes people simply not care much about common stuff. (Environment, roads, streets, houses, etc.) Source, I'm from a post-soviet country, and we're dealing with huge swaths of the population who are still very much thinking like this. See also: - [LINK] (why everything is falling apart) - [VIDEO] (what about new buildings, quality, maintenance?) - [LINK] (about powerlessness, apathy)

Here is video of a Chinese ghost city. It was made by a bloggers that were forced to leave the country for fear of their lives. [VIDEO] > At every level, there is total abdication of responsibility. The whole system incentivizes this. Exactly like the USSR and Chernobyl.