Chinese-made city banks on close proximity to Singapore

It is being constructed on four artificial islands in Iskandar, Malaysia.

Chinese companies have come to Malaysia as growth in their home cities is slowing. According to Bloomberg, they found a prime spot in this special economic zone, three times the size of Singapore, on the southern tip of the Asian mainland.

Country Garden's Forest City, which will be sitted on our artificial islands, will house 700,000 people on an area four times the size of New York’s Central Park. It’s the biggest of about 60 projects in the Iskandar Malaysia zone around Johor Bahru, known as JB, that could add more than half-a-million homes.

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