Posted Apr 10, 2019, 3:46 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Houston/ SF Bay Area
Posts: 37,900
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Chemist
China has so many cities that it's basically impossible to pick a 'second city'. Rather, in China they use an unofficial city tier list.
First Tier: Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen
Second Tier: Nanjing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Xi'an, etc (i.e. most cities 8.5 million + in population that aren't in the first tier, many of which are either special cities (Chongqing and Tianjin) or provincial capitals (Nanjing, Wuhan, Xi'an, Hangzhou, etc)).
And then there are smaller cities in tiers three and four.
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Chongqing second tier? Is that because there's little political power there? All the corporate glitz in Shenzhen and Shanghai?
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