Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong Resemble Ghost Cities, With Millions of Beggars Disappearing

Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong Resemble Ghost Cities, With Millions of Beggars Disappearing

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The biggest mystery of 2025 is: Where have all the people gone? Where are the customers? Where did China’s 1.4 billion people go? I just went to a street food stall, and there were no customers. The vendors outnumbered the people. The stall owner told me there haven’t been many people lately, because everyone’s gone home to buy groceries and cook. But when I went to the market in the evening, the owner there told me the same thing—there weren’t any shoppers. No one knows where everyone has gone. So, where exactly are all the people?

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