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I'm feeling pedantic today, so enjoy a little geography lesson:
"Ordos City" is more like a province or prefecture, spanning an area the size of South Carolina or Azerbaijan and having multiple cities of similar sizes. Much of China is like this, "prefecture-level cities" that also have "county-level cities" beneath them.
The "ghost city" isn't Ordos as a whole but the Kangbashi New Area, which was planned for a population of 300,000 and had an estimated population of 153,000 in 2017, according to Wade Shepard in Forbes .
The photo in the OP is from Dongsheng, the biggest city in Ordos whose population is 572,000 and which had the seat of government before it moved to Kangbashi. Fortunately, Kangbashi looks similar so it's not a big deal, here's a photo of it: