Guangzhou’s Special Path to Global City Status

In the last two decades, the pace at which China has urbanized has been extraordinary: the urbanization level in the country has doubled from 25 percent in 1987 to roughly 50 percent in 2010. Presently, the most urbanized areas are distributed along the southeast coast of China and includes the Pearl River Delta cities, the Yangtze River Delta city group, and the Beijing Tang urban groups. In China’s western regions, the Chengdu-Chongqing urban cluster is quietly rising. Urumqi, the western interior’s most important city, is a city that is changing quickly to play a unique role in the mid-Asia region