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Jonathan Woetzel, Lenny Mendonca, Janamitra Devan, Stefano Negri et al (February 2009), Preparing for China's urban billion. McKinsey. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/urbanization/preparing_for_urban_billion_in_chinaThe scale and pace of China's urbanization continues at an unprecedented rate. If current trends hold, China's urban population will hit the one billion mark by 2030. In 20 years, China's cities will have added 350 million people more than the entire population of the United States today. By 2025, China will have 221 cities with one million–plus inhabitants—compared with 35 cities of this size in Europe today—and 23 cities with more than five million.