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True - HK has a great public transport system which alleviates much of the road traffic congestion. The ghost cities may fill up, true, but I just wished the fake Paris type ones would stop being built. But then, hey, China does do things 'differently' ;)

Yea Dalian has some very western areas, like complete replicas of Europe or USA.

I wrote them long ago. Here's the links. I can see why they do it. I mean for decades everything was Chairman Mao style architecture which is old. They needed something different and what is more different than these examples below.

https://steemit.com/cn/@solarguy/i-landed-in-china-and-found-venice

https://steemit.com/cn/@solarguy/i-landed-in-china-and-found-new-england-what-a-surprise

Cool - I'll check out your posts - Yeah, it seems China has a fascination with recreating western architecture - even in Macau, an Eiffel Tower, and concrete Venetian waterways with signing men in gondolas :/