China’s debt-fuelled county admits ‘reckless borrowing’ after video questions 40 billion yuan construction spree

• Dushan County in the landlocked southwest province of Guizhou, one of the poorest regions in China, has built a number of white elephant projects over the last four years
• Since its release on Sunday, the ‘How Dushan Burnt 40 billion’ video has been viewed over 27 million times on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform