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The video shows buildings which have fallen into disrepair with whole streets remaining empty and overgrown by weeds in the town that was built in 1958.

 Error 404: Chinese secret nuclear city lies abandoned like a ghost town

The secret location in northwestern China’s Gansu province near the Gobi desert is reportedly missing from any map, with the facility established to become China’s base for building nuclear bombs.

It was reportedly home to up to one million people in the 1990s, many of whom where top nuclear experts recruited to work there. It was named after a company owned by the China National Nuclear Corporation, The Mirror reports but has since been abandoned with residents moving to another city close by.

A statue of former Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong dominates the town square and it also contains former apartments, a railway line, shops and a zoo.

Former resident Li Yang grew up there in the third generation of a family that lived there and said “you will never find the town on any map”………http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/asia/inside-404-video-footage-reveals-abandoned-buildings-inside-oncebusy-nuclear-city/news-story/38fb13583679b554025eb8effffeee2b