City Operations
¡ª¡ª Three City Clusters in China
The development and competition in the future will mainly take place in three city clusters.
The first zone is the Yangtze River Delta in east China with Shanghai as its center. Shanghai is doing its best to build itself into a world-class center for finance, information, logistics, research and development as well as human resource. The area influenced by Shanghai stretches from Jiangsu Province to Zhejiang Province, with a population of 70 million. The second economic circle is the area around the national capital, with two cores: Beijing and Tianjin, a population of 40 million live within this circle. The third area is the Pearl River Delta, with Hong Kong and Guangzhou as its centers, an area covering a population of 40 million.
Cities within the Beijing and Tianjin circle, for some historic and other reasons are loosely interlinked
economically; while the bond among cities within the Shanghai cluster is the strongest. Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, which formerly have been largely independent economically, are more voluntary to cline to Shanghai. Even Anhui and Jiangxi in the west of Shanghai are also considering
to join the Shanghai circle. Shanghai and its vicinities have been recognized internationally as the sixth largest city groups in the world. The other city groups
of the world include the northeastern city strip cored by Boston and
Washington in the United States, the grand lake city strip covering
both Canadian and American cities led by Toronto and Chicago, the city strip from Tokyo through Yokohama to
Osaka in Japan, the British city strip from London to Manchester with London as its center and the European city cluster from Amsterdam through Rouen to Paris. |
