• China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people
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[quote] [B]China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people [/B] [B] China is planning to create the world's biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million. [/B] City planners in south [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/"]China[/URL] have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta. The "Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One" scheme will create a 16,000 sq mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than Greater London, or twice the size of Wales. The new mega-city will cover a large part of China's manufacturing heartland, stretching from Guangzhou to Shenzhen and including Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. Together, they account for nearly a tenth of the Chinese economy. Over the next six years, around 150 major infrastructure projects will mesh the transport, energy, water and telecommunications networks of the nine cities together, at a cost of some 2 trillion yuan (£190 billion). An express rail line will also connect the hub with nearby Hong Kong. "The idea is that when the cities are integrated, the residents can travel around freely and use the health care and other facilities in the different areas," said Ma Xiangming, the chief planner at the Guangdong Rural and Urban Planning Institute and a senior consultant on the project. However, he said no name had been chosen for the area. "It will not be like Greater London or Greater Tokyo because there is no one city at the heart of this megalopolis," he said. "We cannot just name it after one of the existing cities." "It will help spread industry and jobs more evenly across the region and public services will also be distributed more fairly," he added. Mr Ma said that residents would be able to use universal rail cards and buy annual tickets to allow them to commute around the mega-city. Twenty-nine rail lines, totalling 3,100 miles, will be added, cutting rail journeys around the urban area to a maximum of one hour between different city centres. According to planners, phone bills could also fall by 85 per cent and hospitals and schools will be improved. "Residents will be able to choose where to get their services and will use the internet to find out which hospital, for example, is less busy," said Mr Ma. Pollution, a key problem in the Pearl River Delta because of its industrialisation, will also be addressed with a united policy, and the price of petrol and electricity could also be unified. The southern conglomeration is intended to wrestle back a competitive advantage from the growing urban areas around Beijing and Shanghai. By the end of the decade, China plans to move ever greater numbers into its cities, creating some city zones with 50 million to 100 million people and "small" city clusters of 10 million to 25 million. In the north, the area around Beijing and Tianjin, two of China's most important cities, is being ringed with a network of high-speed railways that will create a super-urban area known as the Bohai Economic Rim. Its population could be as high as 260 million. The process of merging the Bohai region has already begun with the connection of Beijing to Tianjing by a high speed railway that completes the 75 mile journey in less than half an hour, providing an axis around which to create a network of feeder cities. As the process gathers pace, total investment in urban infrastructure over the next five years is expected to hit £685 billion, according to an estimate by the British Chamber of Commerce, with an additional £300 billion spend on high speed rail and £70 billion on urban transport.[/quote][URL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8278315/China-to-create-largest-mega-city-in-the-world-with-42-million-people.html[/URL] Heres a pic of Wales [IMG]http://www.maps-of-britain.co.uk/images/map-of-wales.jpg[/IMG] :aaaaa: :aaaaa: :aaaaa: :aaaaa: :aaaaa: :aaaaa: :aaaaa: Yeh it's two times that size.
Damn, that's gonna cost a lot. (I'm Welsh)
I'm going to go there one day. I hope so at least.
Whoa, China's really trying to solve their overcrowding problems. Guess that means THEY get to build Mega City One. (if you don't get the reference, I Dreddfully pity you) But in all seriousness, they should call it Pearl Delta, or Pearl City.
Mother of God
Relevant: [img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101231150952/tron/images/8/86/Downtown_Tron_City.jpg[/img]
Holy fuck that's big.
China you so awesome
The area in question: [URL=http://filesmelt.com/][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/megalopolis.png[/IMG][/URL] And it's location in the PRC: [URL=http://filesmelt.com/][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/500px-PRC_Province_Population2.svg_.png[/IMG][/URL]
[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_18947_the-6-most-insane-cities-ever-planned.html[/url]
[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;27631179]Mother of God[/QUOTE] Mother of Pearl, actually.
[img]http://app.fantasyflightgames.com/dark-heresy/images/dh-art/hive-sibellus-big.jpg[/img] IT BEGINS! /c
They might aswell terraform on my penis.
Why expand outwards when you can expand upwards? [img]http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/d/deus_ex-_human_revolution_-_gamescom_2010_trailer_hd-395431-1282126800.jpeg[/img] Yes. That is a double-decker city.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;27631466]Why expand outwards when you can expand upwards? [img_thumb]http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/d/deus_ex-_human_revolution_-_gamescom_2010_trailer_hd-395431-1282126800.jpeg[/img_thumb] Yes. That is a double-decker city.[/QUOTE] That's stage two of the mega city project.
[img]http://images.wikia.com/starwars/nl/images/e/ec/Coruscant.jpg[/img] Almost there.
I can't decide between how awesome or how mind-numbingly disturbing this is..
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;27631466]Why expand outwards when you can expand upwards? [img_thumb]http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/d/deus_ex-_human_revolution_-_gamescom_2010_trailer_hd-395431-1282126800.jpeg[/img_thumb] Yes. That is a double-decker city.[/QUOTE] I beleive Midgar is as well, only one level is underground. also, I don't see how this is scary. They are just relocating boundaries.
I lived in that area for 2 years...10 years ago...
Wow. That's gonna be one Wale of a city. Are they hiring people from Dubai?
Full steam ahead with industrialization and urbanization!
:aaaaa: How long will [I]that[/I] take?
Very exciting, Hong Kong at night almost looks like something out of bladerunner itself, love to see how it'll look like when they all merge together.
A [b]city[/b] twice the size of Wales. Dang.
Holy fuck. What speed internet, is it censored and how much? If bearable, no and bearable - much then [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12875849/reactions/Shut-up-and-take-my-money.jpg[/img]
Fuck, a city big enough to be a small country, I just can't comprehend that.
Imagine the score you could get on DEFCON if you managed to land a nuke on it.
[IMG]http://legalgeekery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/judge-dredd-kickass-stalone.png[/IMG] [I]Mega city you say?[/I]
China is good with infrastructure and stuff. Should hire some of them to fix the railways we have in Sweden.
How about Pearl River City... Its really not that hard to think of a name that will suit the area, come on china...
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