So far I've seen most people make fun of a clickbaity title by rolling with it and taking it in stride, but I can add content warnings for those that can't. Personally I think objectification hits different if one's doing it to themselves.
I'm feeling pedantic today, so enjoy a little geography lesson:
"Ordos City" is more like a province or prefecture, spanning an area the size of South Carolina or Azerbaijan and having multiple cities of similar sizes. Much of China is like this, "prefecture-level cities" that also have "county-level cities" beneath them.
The "ghost city" isn't Ordos as a whole but the Kangbashi New Area, which was planned for a population of 300,000 and had an estimated population of 153,000 in 2017, according to Wade Shepard in Forbes .
The photo in the OP is from Dongsheng, the biggest city in Ordos whose population is 572,000 and which had the seat of government before it moved to Kangbashi. Fortunately, Kangbashi looks similar so it's not a big deal, here's a photo of it:
[people who want to live in dense, walkable neighbourhoods] will be pushed into corporate slop blocks, just like the housing blocks of old Soviet Eastern Europe.
I'm assuming by "immigrants" they're referring to Chinese people who moved into big cities, especially the rich ones on the coast like Shanghai and Shenzhen.
There’s the whole deal with how because they're still registered with the place they came from (the hukou system was meant to encourage rural Chinese to stay and grow the economy there), they can't access certain services, so Western talks about "second-class citizens" and the like.
So far I've seen most people make fun of a clickbaity title by rolling with it and taking it in stride, but I can add content warnings for those that can't. Personally I think objectification hits different if one's doing it to themselves.