Oops, I meant to write, "if one takes all the spending in the ghost city of Ordos and divides it by its near-zero population, the number is surely impressive." The point I was trying to make wasn't about the overall Ordos area, just about its ghost city.

The old city has higher GDP per captica than HongKong. And the city looks like crap. That's why they've built a new one nearby.