The scope of this book is to map China's city clusters and their individual directions for the national …, and directions of all 19 city clusters, allowing readers to have a clear picture of China's historical and ongoing … progress, as well as the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. In a short time, China's city clusters have helped boost …

The People's Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing a trend toward population concentration in its large coastal … cities. However, at the same time, there is also a distortion of city size toward small cities in the country. That is to say …, the urban population in the PRC should further concentrate in large cities rather than be more equally spread out. Cross …