A push into the city and population decline are two reasons they sit empty, as well as the Japanese preference to newly built homes rather than pre-owned.
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As China faces its most significant economic slowdown in recent memory, due in large part to years of heavy-handed state intervention in the country’s languishing private sector, the legitimacy of the ruling party may be called into question after decades of relative stability.