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ESL / EFL Lesson Activity on China's Mega City

China is planning to the world’s largest city. It wants to join nine cities around the Pearl River Delta to make a mega-city 42 million people. That’s twice the population of cities like New York, Mexico City and Sao Paolo. The new city will be 26 times in than Greater London. China will start up to 150 projects to make this a . These include 29 new rail , and energy, water and telecommunications . In the future, China may even cities of 100 million people.

It is hard to a city with over 40 million people living in it. That’s bigger the population of most countries. There are to be many problems with such a large urban area, although they can from other big cities. Urban planners need to lessons from other mega cities to dangerous levels of pollution and traffic. If China makes so enormous cities, there will be and fewer people left in the countryside. This may food shortages.