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China’s big dilemma: Finding new cities like Shenzhen
Written on December 9th, 2009
Thunderbird graduate Laurence Lipsher has watched Shenzhen grow from a small fishing village to a sprawling metropolis of 13 million people in less than 25 years. The city’s rapid development has been astounding, but Lipsher says China will need to repeat the feat again and again to keep pace with growth as the country’s rural poor move to big cities looking for new opportunities. “China has to develop a half dozen cities like this over the next 50 years, plus take 100 million more people and put them into the current existing cities,” Lipsher says. He calls this China’s big dilemma. | Podcast: Laurence Lipsher on China’s vision for 21st century (15:50)
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