Posted on 06/23/2013 6:55:46 PM PDT by TexGrill
On Wednesday, the Standing Committee of Chinas National Peoples Congress will convene. Whats on the agenda? A proposal to fast-track a massive urbanization plan.
Beijing is now placing a big bet on cities. The gamble, however, is unlikely to pay off. It could even sink the Chinese economy and create social unrest.
Today, the Tokyo metropolitan area, home to 37.1 million, can claim to be the worlds most populous urban region. Beijing wants to top that and build metropolises dwarfing anything seen in Japanor anywhere else.
How about a Chinese city of 260 million people? Thats the size of the proposed Bohai Economic Rim, centered on Beijing and Tianjin. Work has already begun on this project with a high-speed railway linking the two cities, which sit next to each other.
There is also a plan to combine Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Huizhou, Zhaoqing, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, and Zhuhai in southern Guangdong province. And with those nine cities wrapped into an integrated whole, the adjoining Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau cannot be far behind. So instead of a city of 42 million, it would be more like 50 million.
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Liberals will love it...it’s close to shopping and
you can take the bus anywhere.
Not trying to sound bigoted or racist here but how in The Wide World of Sports did there ever come to be so many Chinese?
Would love to see how they propose to environmentally dispose of the sewage.
My God, a city with almost the population of the U.S.
What if they all flushed at the same time.
That’s how they plan on employing half the population. Maybe they’ll issue buckets....
Met coal in the dumpster. Might be a buy signal if this clears.
Not the place you want to be during the zombie apocalypse...
The Commies of Collyfornya have their high-speed rail to nowhere, and the Commies of Beijing have their high-rise containment facilities for everyone.
That's one huge city. Dominoes Pizza will have to rethink its "free delivery anywhere in the city" offer there.
China had 163.
Aren't you a little old to be getting the birds and bees" talk?
Talk about a ghetto!
Or the inevitable highly-contagious air-transmission version of the bird flu. With what we’ve seen passing for sanitation, health care, and government honesty in publicizing and treating epidemics, that city could see weekly death tolls of a million or more before anybody even realizes that something is more wrong than usual.
I am becoming a fan of John Calhoun, a 20th century scientist who dealt with the effects of population density. He performed some experiments on rats where he build rat cities where all of their needs, except infinite living space, were taken care of. These rat utopias all had the same end, population growth until a point when the behavior of rat society fell apart, followed by a complete and permanent collapse of the rat city.
His experiments became very famous, and were debated endlessly as to whether they applied to humans. Then he sort of fell out of fashion. But if he is correct, these Chinese cities, no matter how successful they are, or even because of their success, will be the cause of the collapse of China.
...how in did there ever come to be so many Chinese?
Simple...they limited each family to one child.
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