{"id":133164,"date":"2025-07-21T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133164"},"modified":"2025-07-21T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:00:12","slug":"chinese-rust-belt-city-gambles-on-the-skies-and-russia-to-fuel-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133164","title":{"rendered":"Chinese rust-belt city gambles on the skies \u2013 and Russia \u2013 to fuel revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA new airport project in Hegang, a rust-belt city near China\u2019s northeastern border with Russia, marks a high-stakes effort at economic revival in a place better known for its cheap housing \u2013 where homes once sold for as little as 20,000 yuan (US$2,790), analysts said.<br \/>\nThe initiative is part of a broader effort to revive the city\u2019s economy after years of stagnant growth, industrial decline and a shrinking population. Hegang\u2019s local population has dropped from about 1.1 million in the 2010s to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3318781\/chinese-rust-belt-city-hegang-gambles-new-airport-russian-trade-fuel-revival?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA new airport project in Hegang, a rust-belt city near China\u2019s northeastern border with Russia, marks a high-stakes effort at economic revival in a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}