Chongqing - the unofficial biggest city in the world

This clip gives an introduction into Chongqing, to some accounts the biggest city, or municipality, in the world. While the urban population nears 10 million, the entire municipality currently has close to 32 million inhabitants.

The city provides an insight into the rapid urbanization currently taking place in China. Migrant workers flock from the countryside to work in cities, where wages are often higher than in rural areas. Nevertheless, most of them end up making extremely long work days.

China's government considers merging populations of large cities in belts of 'super cities'. Chongqing would form one of the major parts of such an urban sprawl, which would stretch all the way to Shanghai.

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