He has explored dozens of buildings in the country and now hopes to turn his hobby into a business working with directors to source film sets and give urban exploration tours.
Mr Connal added: 'There are some phenomenal derelict and unfinished buildings in China. Sometimes they'll get pulled down within a few weeks and other times they'll stand empty for years or even decades.
'Chinese investors take bigger risks in construction. That's driven the economy, but the other side of that is that more businesses fail and go bankrupt than they do in the west.
'When they go bankrupt, they leave the buildings half finished or just move out of them all together.'


Mr Connal said locations like the former Beijing Film Academy could disappear within a few days once the government machine kicks into action


The sprawling film set is split into two sections - a front end covering an area of six or seven football pitches and a second back end that is slightly smaller



Pictured is a metal staircase (left) in one of the large derelict buildings; and rubble in one of the corridors


Many of the buildings on the large site have been stripped down. Early Chinese propaganda movies such as Legend of Old Solders, Wild Boar Forest and Dream of Red Mansions were filmed on the site



Mr Connal has explored dozens of buildings in the country and now hopes to turn his hobby into a business working with directors to source film sets and give urban exploration tours


Chinese directors were told to make their own versions of popular Western films that were banned in the country


Chinese film posters remain plastered on the walls, while scripts and even an actor's ID card was found on site
What a cool creepy location.