Chongqing is expected to pass the 10 million population mark by 2025,
making it one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. (It currently
has about 9 million people, but if you count its massive rural outliers
the number is closer to 33 million.) Chongqing’s rapid growth and
urbanization is the result of the Chinese government’s “Go West”
campaign, which aims to build up the country’s interior region through
massive infrastructure investment and business development initiatives.
So far, it’s working. Companies like Ford, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have flocked to the city. Chongqing’s GDP has quadrupled since 1998 to $86 billion.
Yet can government programs sustain such wildfire growth forever? And, more important, how long can this kind of growth last?
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| Chongqing, China, photo by Bert van Dijk |
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