One of the destinations in my Beijing trip was a stop at the Olympic village, which is pretty much a shopping mall with Western stores and a Western feel. So that explains why there was almost no one there except for other people from my tour.
I feel like a lot of the time, China and Hong Kong adopt the Western way of doing things, the American concept, like these types of shopping malls. They do it to make themselves feel and look more Western, more American, because they think that's the what they need to do to become more modern.
I think it ultimately hurts them. I mean, these buildings look pretty and everything is nice. But local people know that this isn't what their country or city stands for. They know it is a sham, which is why they will never end up going. It's just a place for tourist to come, to look and see how "developed" things are now.
These types of mall rarely have any business. I guess that is the return on profit for trying to become more Western and less of who they actually are.
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