A worker built a pathway in front of a construction site in the exclusive Jinxia Hill gated compound where most of the complexes are already sold but lie uninhabited in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times ORDOS, China � By many measures, this resource-rich city in northern China is a fabulous success. It has huge reserves of coal and natural gas, a fast-growing economy
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