Zhengzhou will become vibrant city centers. But Miller challenges critics who quickly labeled Zhengzhou a ghost city. He said in the past few years city planners had constructed 14 new university campuses in the city, which he predicted would ensure a quarter of a million new residents. China is different because it has this very authoritarian power structure. Power rests in the hands of very few people, and that means that local government officials can take big decisions looking ahead 10, 15 years... and create something for a society that has n't really arrived yet, Miller said. It's build them and they will come, Miller added, and build it and force them to come. But of course there will be some big wasteful developments, white elephants, along the way.