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So officials are trying to force local gov’ts to come clean about their debts. Now comes the double whammy for cities like Ruzhou. China’s economy has slowed by its most in 3 decades which means they can’t grow out of their problems. And Beijing has turned off the lending taps
Which is why for a brief moment earlier this year, Ruzhou appeared to go to its nurses and doctors for money. But when I traveled there with @caocli this summer, we didn’t know any of this. We were just hunting for white elephants
But we left with a police escort. More on that here: https://nyti.ms/2X06qCx But back China’s debt problems. Ruzhou is just one of many cities and towns that appear to be running out of money
Here’s why it matters: “Imagine the economy is a ship like the Titanic,” one analyst told us. “Local government debts are like cargo containers piled up on its deck. There are already lots of cargo containers piling up.” Read more herehttps://nyti.ms/2p7jkCb
Here’s one of them — a sprawling sports complex that officials later turned into a big data center with an “E-commerce mansion” overlooking a stadium. One guy told us that a basketball stadium nearby was worth $14 million. Invisible tech worth millions was in the walls, he saidpic.twitter.com/QBnF0NGc2H
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