A nearly £80billion city in Malaysia , intended to be a haven for families and businesses, stands largely deserted. Forest City has a reputation of being something of a ghost town with several unfinished skyscrapers, vacant streets and buildings.

In 2023, it was estimated just 15% of the ambitious project had been completed, with around 1% of the development occupied. It was launched in 2016 by China ’s largest property developer, Country Garden, as part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative designed to invest in global infrastructure. The cost of the project is eyewatering at £78.9billion, with aspirations to build an eco-friendly metropolis which would provide hundreds of thousands of jobs for locals, helping to reduce unemployment in Malaysia’s Johor region in the south of the Mala

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