FROM 2009 to 2014, Shanghai saw an inflow of 5.04 million people. And 3.96 million people flowed into Beijing, 2.88 million into neighbouring Tianjin, 2.75 million into Guangzhou, capital of South China’s Guangdong province and 1.99 million into Dongguan in the same province.
These were the top five on the list of mainland cities that had the largest population inflows during this period, and proves the absurdity of the once popular assertion that people are trying to get away from the big cities.
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