{"id":562967,"date":"2021-09-13T20:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=562967"},"modified":"2021-09-13T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:16:07","slug":"fifteen-chinese-cities-each-added-more-than-2-million-residents-in-the-decade-to-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/fifteen-chinese-cities-each-added-more-than-2-million-residents-in-the-decade-to-2020_562967.html","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen Chinese cities each added more than 2 million residents in the decade to 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
Travelers ride bikes alongside Qiandao Lake in<\/em> Hangzhou<\/a>, Zhejiang province. [Photo by YANG BO\/FOR CHINA DAILY]<\/em><\/p>\n

Most are provincial capitals, where growth is prioritized, census shows<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fifteen Chinese cities each added more than 2 million residents in the decade to 2020, with almost two-thirds of them provincial capitals, data from the latest national census showed.<\/p>\n

Shenzhen, Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, topped the list with 7.13 million new residents, a 68 percent increase compared with 2010.<\/p>\n

Guangzhou, Guangdong’s provincial capital, was second, with its population increased by almost a half since 2010 to reach 18.6 million.<\/p>\n

Other cities on the list that are not provincial capitals included Foshan and Dongguan in Guangdong, and Suzhou in Jiangsu province.<\/p>\n

Two of the country’s provincial-level municipalities also added more than 2 million residents. Chongqing added 3.2 million people, and Beijing added 2.28 million.<\/p>\n

Since 2010, eight cities have joined the list of megacities with 10 million residents or more, bringing the total number to 18.<\/p>\n

Six of them are provincial capitals: Xi’an, Shaanxi; Zhengzhou, Henan; Hangzhou, Zhejiang; Changsha, Hunan; Wuhan, Hubei; and Shijiazhuang, Hebei.<\/p>\n

Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou and Changsha recorded population increases of more than 3 million.<\/p>\n

Many provincial governments have prioritized the development of their capitals to boost their ability to attract talent, capital and technology.<\/p>\n

Hu Gang, a professor at Jinan University in Guangdong and an urban development expert, said the strategy fits the rules of economic development in Hangzhou China<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“In places with immature regional economies, if the resources are too dispersed, they would lack competitiveness,” he told Yicai magazine.<\/p>\n

The growth of major cities has taken the number of metropolises on the Chinese mainland with populations of 5 million or more to 91.<\/p>\n

Most are spread across traditionally populous plain areas\uff0dsuch as Shandong and Henan provinces\uff0dor places with a robust economy, as is the case with Guangdong and Zhejiang.<\/p>\n

Shandong, where half the land is arable, has a population of around 100 million and is home to 10 cities with populations of at least 5 million\uff0dthe most for any province. Henan, on the central plain, has 99 million people and nine such cities.<\/p>\n

With a vibrant private economy, Zhejiang has seven, despite its hilly topography. Another nine are in Guangdong, where the Pearl River Delta manufacturing hub has for decades served as a magnet for rural migrant workers.<\/p>\n

Not all metropolises gained population over the decade.<\/p>\n

Twenty-one of the 91 cities with at least 5 million people saw their populations decline, with 10, mostly in central and western regions, losing 400,000 residents or more.<\/p>\n

Harbin, in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, was the only provincial capital where the population shrank, but nearly half of China’s 330-plus major cities saw their populations decline between 2010 and 2020.<\/p>\n

There has been a concentration of such cities in northeastern provinces, which have long been confronted with an exodus of younger people due to the depletion of natural resources and a lack of opportunities.<\/p>\n

Experts said migration and falling birthrates played major roles in the contractions.<\/p>\n

The latest census data showed about 376 million people, or one in every four people on the Chinese mainland, were classified as migrants living outside their hometowns in prefecture-level cities or regions, up 70 percent from a decade earlier.<\/p>\n

Media Contact<\/span>
Company Name:<\/strong> The Information Office of Hangzhou Municipal Government<\/a>
Contact Person:<\/strong> Cai Jingwen
Email:<\/strong> Send Email<\/a>
Phone:<\/strong> 0510-68559077
Country:<\/strong> China
Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.ehangzhou.gov.cn\/<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/object>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travelers ride bikes alongside Qiandao Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. [Photo by YANG BO\/FOR CHINA DAILY] Most are provincial capitals, where growth is prioritized, census shows Fifteen Chinese cities each added more than 2 million residents in the decade to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Lifestyle","category-News-Current-Affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}