Not that I disagree, but those could also be farmer or fisherman housing, or remote compounds (think remote military or university campuses). The ones around Beijing are usually inhabited in some form or another, even though they are in the middle of farmland or abutting mountains.
My wife has an aunt who lives in an apartment complex in the middle of nowhere near leiyang Hunan. This was because it was what the Energy SOE her aunt was working for required them to live.
My wife has an aunt who lives in an apartment complex in the middle of nowhere near leiyang Hunan. This was because it was what the Energy SOE her aunt was working for required them to live.