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Sponge cities: can China’s model go global?

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Cities Today

Publication Date
2017-07-13

As Xi Jinping ascended to power, he watched, all around him, the equally swift rise of cities. At his birth in 1953, cities housed just one in nine Chinese; by his marriage in 1987, one in four. By the time he became president, half his country was urbanised across 662 major cities, 100 of them larger than 1 million. From the Chongqing megalopolis (population 30 million) downwards, cities anchor Xi’s ‘Chinese Dream’, his vision of strength, to be reached by marching along ‘the Chinese path’.

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