404: China’s Abandoned Nuclear City | Sixth Tone
Xu Haifeng—Sixth Tone
Type in a URL wrong and a 404 tells you the web page you are searching for cannot be found. In the 1990s, 404 City had 100,000 inhabitants but was not listed on any map, according to Xu Haifeng’s story in Sixth Tone. The city was built in 1958 to house a nuclear bomb, but by 2006, most people had been relocated elsewhere. Now largely deserted, the empty spaces revealed in Xu’s images seem locked in a time long since past.
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Type in a URL wrong and a 404 tells you the web page you are searching for cannot be found. In the 1990s, 404 City had 100,000 inhabitants but was not listed on any map, according to Xu Haifeng’s story in Sixth Tone. The city was built in 1958 to house a nuclear bomb, but by 2006, most people had been relocated elsewhere. Now largely deserted, the empty spaces revealed in Xu’s images seem locked in a time long since past.