One of the largest malls in the world is a true ghost town.

Imagine a shopping center with 1, 500 stores, hundreds of restaurants and attractions such as a go-kart track and a 500-meter roller coaster, all spread over 1 million square meters. We can only conclude that a venture of this size would be a blockbuster and sales, right? Well, according to the Daily Mail, it's not!

According to the publication, this is the New South China Mall, opened in 2005 in Dongguan City. Built to receive over 70, 000 visitors a day, the project manager - Hu Guirong - has sent a team to travel around the world to get ideas, and the mall has seven thematic areas that reproduce different parts of the world.

Replicas and Thematic Areas

Among them was a “mini center” of San Francisco, for example, as well as a replica of the Arc de Triomphe, the famous Venetian canals - with gondolas and all -, some areas of Las Vegas and even the Godzila However, today the mall has less than a dozen stores in operation (1% of total capacity) and remains open despite being completely deserted.

And how is it possible that such a structure did not work out, especially given the Chinese passion for consumption and shopping? China has been hit hard by the world recession, and the city of Dogguan - where the mall was built - is famous for its low-wage working-class population. So it seems that there is not much money available to buy superfluous there.

In addition, the entrepreneurs' lack of experience and planning also seems to have been crucial to the mall's failure, as it appears that they were able to finance construction before ensuring that all store space would be occupied. And it seems that the problem facing the New South China Mall is not the only case. Anyway, what do you suggest to be done with this giant space?