When the Communist Party of China was founded in 1, most of the China’s population lived in2 areas, where opportunities were largely limited to 3 . When new China was founded in 1949, only 4 people lived in cities. And that was about 5 people. The process got a significant boost in 1978, when then Leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the policy which drived the economy growth the next four decades. China’s ambitious 6 program rewarded development, industry and trade. And this led to the establishment of several 7 in urban areas. The milestone was reached in 2011, when China’s urban population surpassed its rural population. By 2019, it had passed 8 , nearly9 people living and working in cities, more than the total population’s US, Indonesia, and Brazil combined. New China reached 60% 10 years after its founding in 1949, when the rate was just 11 . It took the United States more than a 12 to go from 10 to 60%. In 1988, the GDP of China’s urban areas 13topped 700 billion yuan. By 2017, mega cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou were 14 over 2 trillion yuan in GDP a year. And prefectural-level (县级市) cities or cities below the major ones generated nearly 15 of national GDP the same year.