Ordos Desert
With an expanding district due to economic exploitation of the local natural resources, but dwindling water supplies due to the continual expansion of the Ordos Desert, Ordos officials were faced with a local infrastructure planning problem. Hence in 2003, Ordos city officials launched the creation of a new 1 million person city district. Located on a site from the existing city of Dongsheng, the new city is located next to three existing reservoirs on the site of two former villages.