He blamed Hohhot Kekao Mining for the destruction, adding that he had warned the company five times since September to desist.

Few could have foreseen that Hohhot's new landmark, a prestige project for the local government, would never be built.

I personally visited Hohhot in Inner Mongolia and found a number of interesting investment opportunities.

Further investigation revealed that Hohhot was not Wang's first victim: He played the same trick in 2001 in Yinchuan, the capital city of Ningxia Autonomous Region.

The subsistence security standards of other cities are all below 200 yuan, of which Huhhot, Mohe and Yinchuan are the lowest at 143 yuan.