Many Chinese cities constantly conducting real estate development in pursuit of GDP growth, simply turn urbanization into building houses and cities,but their floor areas and increase in population are out of sync, leading to the "ghost-city" phenomenon. In response, the Chinese government proposed for the first time the concept of shrinking cities in Key Tasks for New Urbanization 2019. This means the Chinese government is turning its back on "GDPism" and will stop focusing unilaterally on urban growth and expansion to ensure that small and medium-sized cities stop expanding inefficiently and blindly.