Submerged | Shanghai
on April 7, 2015
The metropolitan area of Shanghai had a resident population of more than 24.15 million in 2013.
The metropolitan area of Shanghai had a resident population of more than 24.15 million in 2013.
The combined population living in the area depicted, including Qingdao, Jimo, and Chengyang, is nearly 4 million.
The Special Economic Zone that includes Shenzhen has an estimated population of 15 million and is growing fast, while Hong Kong’s population at the end of 2014 was more than 7 million.
The provincial capital city of Haikou has a population of just over 600 thousand, but for several years China has had plans to turn this tropical island into an international resort destination similar to Hawaii.
The current population of Dalian is over 4 million.
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A recent business dispute between a state-owned technology conglomerate and a private property developer has put a low-profile but powerful businessman in the spotlight. The businessman is believed to have brought down a former Beijing deputy mayor, control a landmark building project in the capital, and have close ties to a disgraced national security official.
Rebecca MacKinnon directs the Ranking Digital Rights project at New America, developing a system to rank Internet, telecommunications, and other tech companies on respect for users’ free expression and privacy. She is author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices Online. MacKinnon was a founding Board member of the Global Network Initiative and is currently on the Board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, MacKinnon was CNN’s Bureau Chief and correspondent first in China and then Japan between 1998-2004. More recently, she taught at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre in 2007 and 2008, was a 2013 adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and is currently a visiting affiliate at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Global Communication Studies. She has held fellowships at Harvard’s Shorenstein and Berkman Centers, the Open Society Foundations, Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and the New America Foundation. MacKinnon received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and was a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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