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The World of Tomorrow!

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Chongqing is the fastest-growing urban centre on the planet … Every year, 8.5 million Chinese peasants move into cities. Most of their destinations are mere specks on western maps … The names of many others – Suqian, Suining, Xiantao, Xinghua, Liuan – are unfamiliar even to many Chinese. Nowhere is the staggering urbanisation of the world more evident than in Chongqing … Set in the middle reaches of the Yangtze, this former trading centre and treaty port has long been the economic hub of western China … it has grown and grown, becoming what is now the world’s biggest municipality with 31 million residents … The population in its metropolitan areas will double from 10 million to 20 million in the next 13 years.

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