all propaganda, much like any dictator run projects. if you go to any of them, you'll see run down buildings with barely any startup activities. just street hawkers selling stuff in the front.

this is like the talking points about 7% gdp growth (fake number if you look at how poorly electricity,freight,luxury sales,real estates,stock market are doing), one silk road (no progress), increased trade with Russia (no progress), asian bank (now that they've militarily threatened their neighbors for SCS, pretty sure none of them are up for it)