How the World’s Biggest Mall Became a Chinese ‘Ghost Town’

Dongguan, China is a factory town with an estimated population of 10 million, many of whom are migrant workers from other parts of the country. But even a community that large, it seems, is unable to support a 5 million-square-foot shopping center. More than twice the size of the Unite States’s Mall of America, New South China Mall in the Guangdong province is easily recognized as the world’s largest mall. Opened in 2005, the behemoth property was expected to attract an upwards of 100,000 visitors a day, CNN reports, and has space...

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