It seems Evergrande was ordered to actually demolish some of its projects.

There’s this:

Evergrande’s plush sea resort project in Hainan Island ordered to shut down

The tourism development unit under the debt-stricken China Evergrande Group was ordered to remove its mega resort project in Danzhou, South China’s Hainan Province, according to an administrative penalty notice issued by local authorities citing the company’s unlawful means of obtaining the project certificate.

According to the notice, which has been circulating online since the weekend, the project - covering 434,941.46 square meters or 39 buildings of the Ocean Flower Island, an artificial archipelago in Danzhou, the world’s largest of its kind - was ordered to be demolished within 10 days.

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I take it that “the company’s unlawful means of obtaining the project certificate” is bureau-speak for the government trying to find reasons not to be blamed itself.