I agree. Balance is always good.
(it's not really even proverty, much of it is quite, umm, normal).
Yes, but those fancy skyscrapers sit on property that used to have those "normal" neighborhoods.
yeah, but who got the economic benefits of these skyscrapers displacing the old neighborhood? It's a rhetorical question, I realize the answer is complex - certainly some in the old neighorhood got ancillary economic benfits that improve their own lives, and the new buildings their tenents drive new and expanded economic activities. But at same time, a lot of people alos just keep getting squeezed and pushed out to the edges.
There is serious economic ghetto-zation in China, the gap between the have's and have not's, between the developed big cities and the vast countryside - and we are not even introducing external, western baseline, the disparity is huge even just using China's own domestic demographics.
It's interesting times ...