A former Chinese official said the country's entire population couldn't fill its empty homes.
He Keng said China's 1.4 billion population was likely insufficient to fill all its vacant houses.
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Today, farmers have taken over the ghost town, plowing the land and letting cattle roam free around the empty mansions.
But by 2016, its population was only around 100,000, and it has been described as "the largest ghost town in the world."
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