{"622336":{"#nid":"622336","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"China\u0027s Push for Megacities: Is Bigger Better?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u0026nbsp;Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/dennis-lockhart\u0022\u003EF\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/wang\u0022\u003Eei-Ling Wang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;wrote\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;China\u0026#39;s Push for Megacities: Is Bigger Better?\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the China-Britain Business Council\u0026#39;s publication, \u003Cem\u003EFOCUS Magazine,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EJune 4.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;In 1978, before Deng Xiaoping\u0026#39;s Opening Up and Reform policy, only 18 percent of China\u0026#39;s population lived in urban areas. Over the next 40 years, as the economy boomed, that number swelled to well over three quarters of a billion people, and, by 2030, a billion people are expected to live in China\u0026#39;s cities.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe Nunn School\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-06-07 16:57:04","changed_gmt":"2019-06-07 16:59:27","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"glacial melt","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"574741":{"id":"574741","type":"image","title":"Fei-Ling Wang","body":null,"created":"1473436975","gmt_created":"2016-09-09 16:02:55","changed":"1475895383","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:23","alt":"Fei-Ling Wang","file":{"fid":"207184","name":"feilingwangweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":52156,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/feilingwangweb.jpg?itok=tmsC6w_F"}}},"media_ids":["574741"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12187","name":"Fei-Ling Wang"},{"id":"181487","name":"FOCUS magazine"},{"id":"70081","name":"megacities"},{"id":"802","name":"China"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}