One City, Nine Towns
The planning for the pilot project began in 2001 and was largely completed in 2007. From 2011, of the nine  planned cities, in particular Anting as ghost town repeatedly hit the headlines, especially in Germany and English media.   Anting, around 34 kilometers west of the center of Shanghai, is, among other things, the location of the German-Chinese Joint Venture s Shanghai Volkswagen and one of the centers of the Chinese automotive industry. The district `` Anting German Town  has a living space capacity for 25,000 people. By contrast, the number of inhabitants is said to have risen to just 7,000 by 2014. The main causes were the location, accessibility and high property prices.