Few areas of China reflect the country’s decades-long economic transformation more vividly than its cities. Rapid development has made villages into dense urban landscapes and already sizeable metro areas into some of the world’s largest population centres. As the rate of urbanisation slows and the country transitions into a new economic era, we explore how select Chinese cities are navigating the change. Read the rest of our series here.
Once a remote industrial powerhouse forged deep in the mountains of western China, the former “steel capital” Panzihua is trading blast furnaces for wellness resorts as it pushes to align with the nation’s shift from rapid urbanisation to a more “people-centred” model.
