Forest City: Inside Malaysia's Chinese-built 'ghost city' - BBC News
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Published 2023-12-05
In Malaysia, Country Garden's plan was to build an eco-friendly metropolis featuring a golf course, waterpark, offices, bars and restaurants. The company said Forest City would eventually be home to nearly one million people.
Eight years on, only 15% of the project has been built and, according to recent estimates, just over 1% of the total development is occupied.
Despite facing debts of nearly $200bn, Country Garden told the BBC it is "optimistic" the full plan will be completed.
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All Comments (21)
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Wow, that last shot was GOLD. Wow...literally a staircase/path to nowhere. Respect to the crew, well done, bloody well done!
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Sold as an "eco-friendly development" they destroyed massive amounts of sensitive and vulnerable coastal wetlands and sealife.
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i am malaysian and i have a cousin who lived there once and got out after a week of staying . she's said it's very free and peaceful, but it ain't though in the inside, she lives practically on the middle level, they were barely residents there. whenever she uses the elevator, there will some noise that consider disturbing, sometime later she heard they are weird noises from the emergency stair🥲 i want to go there but not so bad
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Amazing reporting, so glad someone did a story on it!
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This project benefited no one locally but a certain (royal) family who sold swathes of land to the said Chinese developer at the expense of the local fishermen's livelihood and countless others who depended on the sea for sustenance. A tragedy really.
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We need an 1 hour documentary on this, not like 3 mins
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I was tgere when it was almost completed right before covid. It is a good concept, but it impacted the locals and is in affordable for locals so it got bad press. As an Australian i would have bought one if it was good. Its a great part of the world. I think it will succeed purely because it is in an absolute great location...close to Singapore and Indonesia (Batam). Anyone doing business in that region would like it.
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Same here in Cambodia, Chinese business people came to build the same thing at the seaside area , tons of tall buildings are unfinished and left behind , it’s like ghost town ;(…..
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Always amazed by the absurdity of price valuations so high that no one can afford to live there. You think they'd lower prices to meet demand, but it seems developers would rather make no money at all than what the actual fluid market will pay for it.
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a project aimed for chinese citizen instead of Malaysian citizen itself so no suprise 😂
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all the plants looks like well maintained, corridors also clean.
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I have gone their last month.that city is very beautiful.
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If I'm not mistaken there was a documentary about fishermen living in the area that were worried that they would lose their land and fishing space because of this.
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The irony is it’s a concrete jungle rather than a forest…cold , desolate and mostly, sad
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As Johor resident, I hope any developer company takes and proceeds with this project.
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My dad has a unit here. Actually its very nice, weather is great, its like a trip to nature but modern landscape. So much potential. Hopefully people see the potential. Facilities are well maintained and its actually designed to be a thriving communities with walking distance. Just needs people to stay and live there.
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Wow, that last shot is pure art. Raise this man and his crew
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That ending was * chef's kiss * 🤣
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I am a Johorean and lived in Johor for 30 years now and it was so frustrating and dissapointed when I knew about this project since Im totally disagree with it... even our former PM Tun Mahathir disagree with this project and i second his opinion on that... but there is nothing we could do... as a Johorean i think why don't they develop ideas on how to improve the life of Johoreans as a whole instead of having this kind of project that didnt even have any benefits towards us at all except for foreigners...
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BBC : ghost city People : future city
