Posted on 03/26/2017 4:27:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
TIANJIN, China — China's rulers are planning a megacity that will be home to 130 million people and cover an area the size of New England.
Sitting on the northeast coast of China, Jing-Jin-Ji — which stands for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei — is a central plank of the country's economic development plan over the next century.
The sheer numbers around the the project are startling. In November, the government approved $36 billion to build some 700 miles of new rail there within just three years' time.
Residents of bedroom communities just outside Beijing's city limits who now spend five to six hours a day on their commute are expected to be the main beneficiaries of a new transport system serving the megalopolis.
In the longer term, 24 intercity railways are planned for completion by 2050 — eight alone by 2020. The goal is a "one-hour commuting circle" across the area, according to the government.
"The biggest change is in transportation," Zhang Zhongmin, a humanities professor and environmental campaigner based in the Hebei captial of Shijiazhuang told NBC News. "It used to take almost one day to travel from Hebei to Beijing, but now it's only a few hours."(continued)
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fyi, Tianjin, is the site of the infamous explosion with many videos making the rounds on the internet back in 2015.
More grand empty buildings for the whole city.
Oooo! I just had a great idea! We could house a whole lot of ‘refugees’ in these Ghost Towns!
*SMIRK*
That’s $52 million per mile of new railroad.
The boondoggle in California that will never be completed is coming in at $56 million per kilometer.
Just saying....
Centralized political power loves the population herded into “mega cities” - easier to control and it requires an ingrained higher level of dependence of the population on government services just to function.
Yes
It’s amazing, the way modern china is doing 1930’s (or so) Japan on FAST-FORWARD.
Very many parallels.
What, they’re going to build more cities nobody lives in next to malls nobody goes to and has no businesses in to keep domestic workers busy? China is slowly becoming the Winchester mystery house writ large.
CC
No, no ghost town. Go read the article. They’re just consolidating existing megacities into a new administrative division.
Unfortunately we are working on a few ghost towns ourselves.
And those cities aren’t even fully communist. Yet.
Will there be a Walmart on every corner?
Or only Targets?
at roughly 10% of their total population, they are trying to manufacture an economic zone similar in scope and character to NYC.
Maybe that will work out better than all the vacant and empty new buildings that never got tenants and are rotting away in their cities.
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