'Build it and they will come' mindset delivered a ghost city IT'S known as China's most famous ghost city. But for Dion Hershan, what he saw on his trip to Ordos in northern China last year was beyond his wildest dreams. The city, in the urban centre known as Kangbashi New Area, has been deserted for many years because the government simply cannot convince people to move there from the old section of the town 24km away, with its population of 1.5 million people.