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Check out a ghost town of deserted Chinese mega-villas built for multimillionaires that's now overrun by farmers and left to rot
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Jul 24, 2023, 2:59 PM GMT+8
Cattle have been seen wandering around deserted villas in a suburb of Shenyang, China. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
- Farmers have overrun a set of abandoned villas in Shenyang, China, to grow crops and rear cattle.
- Their farm animals have been seen roaming around homes inside the decrepit development, per AFP.
- "Only ghosts can reside here!" one person on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, wrote.
The Chinese property giant Greenland Group broke ground on the State Guest Mansions project in a suburb of Shenyang back in 2010, per the AFP. The exclusive development in China's northeastern Liaoning province was planned to have 260 European-style villas to house the city's ultrarich.
Greenland Group planned to construct 260 European-style villas as part of their "State Guest Mansions" project. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
The project was abandoned two years later, per the AFP.
The project was abandoned two years after it broke ground on the development in 2010. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
The half-built villas have become overrun by local farmers, who plow the land and plant crops on the overgrown lawns of abandoned villas. The desolate homes stand unfinished and unpainted like crumbling tombstones dotting the expansive wasteland.
Local farmers have plowed the land of the abandoned development. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images