Few signs of life in‘China’s Manhattan’

a construction worker walking past buildings in the new Yujiapu financial district, in Tianjin, in northern China. The massive government project, sometimes described as China's answer to Manhattan, incorporates dozens of skyscrapers and is being built in the hope of becoming one of the world's largest financial centers. - AFP

When AFP called it turned out to be a real estate agency -- but the woman who answered said she had not heard of the project.