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| China's new mega-city |
Chinese city-planners put forward a plan to merge the 9 cities within the
Pearl River Delta zone. By combining these cities, China will create the world’s largest mega-city (or would
giga-city be a better name?), creating a metropolis with a population of 42 million people. The newly created city will be covering part of China’s manufacturing zone and stretches out from Guangzhou to Shenzhen. China's mega-city scheme will create a 16,000 square mile of urbanized areawhich is roughly 26 times larger than greater London. The new city will also include Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. At the moment (2013) the world largest mega-city is Greater Tokyo with a population of over 34 million people.
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| Bohai Economic Rim |
The southern conglomeration hopes to contest the competitive advantages of growing urban areas around Beijing and Shanghai. China also plans to move even more greater numbers into cities, creating city zones with 50 to 100 million residents + "small" city-clusters with populations of 10 to 25 million. The northern areas around Beijing and Tianjin will be ringed with networks of high speed railways creating a super urban area known as
Bohai Economic Rim with a population of 260 million people.
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