I’m afraid that the Chinese government may be following lessons of industrialization from the west. I don’t understand the politics well enough to understand whether making big cities bigger is a truly Chinese direction, or whether it’s reflection of a global one. Sustainability would suggest that encouraging a larger number of smaller cities to grow would be a better idea. China is a big country. I understand the benefits of Shanghai’s location as a port at the outlet of a river, but since Beijing is at the edge of a desert, it feels like development in another geographic location could be a good idea.