Evergrande: The $300 Billion House of Cards

At its peak, the Evergrande Group was a global titan, a corporate juggernaut that seemed to hold the keys to China’s unprecedented urbanization. With hundreds of thousands of employees and a land bank so vast it rivaled entire nations, the company appeared invincible. But behind the facade of soccer academies and speculative electric vehicle ventures lay a house of cards built on debt, leverage, and a desperate cycle of perpetual expansion. This documentary chronicles the harrowing downfall of the world's most indebted developer, moving from its meteoric ascent to the inevitable, violent crash that wiped out billions in wealth and left millions of families in limbo.

This investigation is built upon a rigorous analysis of 201 primary and secondary sources, including official financial filings, regulatory reports, and meticulous contemporaneous news coverage to piece together exactly how this financial engine stalled.

*CHAPTERS*
00:00 Introduction
00:25 The Architect of Expansion
01:14 Diversification and Corporate Facade
02:05 The Debt-Fueled Machine
03:02 The Three Red Lines
03:42 The Fatal Solvency Crisis
04:23 Systemic Contagion and Human Cost
04:51 The Fall of Xu Jiayin
05:10 Liquidation and Conclusion

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