Sunday, June 10, 2007

Shanghai's Growth Fueled Migration of 4,000,000 in last 20 years

A 7 May BBC Article, Shanghai: Creating a Global City, details China's largest city's meteoric rise to prominence over the past 20 years. The article examines the growing concentration of wealth in Shanghai, the center of an urban agglomeration now larger than New York City. The number of migrants that have moved to the city during this period seemingly dwarf any peacetime migration of recent memory, as an estimated 4,000,000 people have relocated from China's rural areas. For more information on the effects of globalization on Shanghai, check out the links below.

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