The island, once seen as remote and uninhabited, was bought by Chen Yang and not immediately set to develop. With more than two thousand square kilometers of land, it's not small- to build a modern city on this barren land, it's not an easy task to do individually, even with more than a hundred thousand US dollars of investment-
Fortunately, Chen Yang does not need it to be perfect all at once, nor does he have to undertake this all alone. Sometimes, all it takes is a demonstration of potential and future benefits and large-scale investment will naturally come without him having to spend a cent.
Having been distracted for months, by mid-December, nearing the end of 2015, Chen Yang finally managed to launch the first phase constructions.