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Megalopolis

Updated on 15 March 2006

By Channel 4 News

The Guardian's China correspondent Jonathan Watts spent 24 hours in the mega city of Chongqing for Channel 4 News.


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It's a great leap forward for China's booming cities: transformed into glittering towers of conspicuous consumption - fast becoming the most dynamic in Asia.

It's driving thousands to desert the poverty of a rural existence: a potentially explosive situation which China's communist leaders are being forced to address.

But among the bright lights of the big cities, no-one's worried by THAT.

Right in the heart of China, the megacity of Chongqing began as a port on the middle reaches of the Yangste river: now its leading the global charge from the fields to the skyscrapers.

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