Over the past three decades, China has been building metropolis sizes cities under a strategic urban development plan. Large gleaming cutting-edge cities with towering modern design skyscrapers, municipal buildings, schools, museums, shopping centers and malls, recreational centers and parks, hospitals, transportation systems, and complete with urban housing developments. Everything a city needs, but the only thing is hardly anyone lives there...yet.
World economist have in the past criticized the Chinese government's urban development efforts, for building cities with no supporting industry or housing demand. Economists have called these cities failed utopias, ghost cities, almost empty with populations of 20% or less than their potential. The economist may be wrong, because they viewed China to have a failed vision of 'build it and they will come' when China's vision is closer to 'build it and then move them there' and these city populations are consistently growing as the giant awakens and ghost cities come to life.
By the end of 2015, 56% of China's total population were living in urban areas, compared to 26% in 1990, as the government demolishes rural villages and builds new cities to relocate them. China is reported to have been building 12-24 cities per year. From 2010-2025, it's estimated China will urbanize 300 million people currently living in rural areas, resulting in 70% of the total population living in cities by 2025. This ultimately results in a quick 40 year plan, which molds a new form of culture for the young generation of China, while transforming a nation into an urban powerhouse.
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