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Inhabitants walk in the streets of the so-called "Oak Garden" residential complex, a former housing of the US Army, in the German western town of Hoppstaedten-Weiersbach on September 7, 2018. - For just over a million yuan each (125,000 euros), 12 Chinese businessmen were promised apartments in a small German village and help with navigating Germany's bureaucracy including obtaining residency permits and registering a business. Six years on 1,000 Chinese have moved to Hoppstaedten-Weiersbach, total population 3,500. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes / AFP) (Photo credit should read THOMAS LOHNES/AFP/Getty Images)

Inhabitants walk in the streets of the so-called "Oak Garden" residential complex, a former housing of the US Army, in the German western town of Hoppstaedten-Weiersbach on September 7, 2018. - For just over a million yuan each (125,000 euros), 12 Chinese businessmen were promised apartments in a small German village and help with navigating Germany's bureaucracy including obtaining residency permits and registering a business. Six years on 1,000 Chinese have moved to Hoppstaedten-Weiersbach, total population 3,500. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes / AFP)        (Photo credit should read THOMAS LOHNES/AFP/Getty Images)