In this regard, Ordos has been successful -- the old town has expanded three-fold over the past decade and homes in the new town are all sold out.

That said, First Solar will probably end up building local manufacturing capacity to feed the big plant, part of a larger, planned Chinese renewable-energy park in the city of Ordos.

The new section of Ordos city on the edge of the Gobi desert was designed to accommodate about 300,000 people but residents say fewer than one-tenth of that number live in Kangbashi.

Therefore, sustainable development is a major issue facing the Erdos.

In this paper, to as Ordos City an example, through analysis the city's development process, pointed out the crisis that the city is facing.