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China’s 2025 Census Snapshots: Coastal Boom, Interior Fade — Guangdong and Hainan Buck National Trends
Provincial statistics for 2025 show population gains concentrated in Guangdong and Hainan, driven largely by migration and, unusually in Guangdong’s case, a high number of births. Several interior provinces continued to lose residents, reinforcing regional divergence and posing fiscal and social challenges for policymakers.
China’s New Year Rewired: Urbanization, ‘Reverse Spring Festival’ and the Globalization of Holidaying
China’s Lunar New Year travel has changed shape: highways were unexpectedly quiet before the holiday and surged after, even as Chinese tourists packed domestic attractions and flew abroad. The shift mirrors a deeper social transformation driven by a 67.89% urbanisation rate — over 950 million urban residents — which is weakening the automatic expectation of returning to ancestral villages and enabling reverse migration, longer outbound trips, and more discretionary uses of holiday time.
Pudong on the Cusp of a City-Sized Economy: China’s Emerging Mega-Districts Reshape Urban Hierarchy
Pudong New Area is approaching the RMB 2 trillion mark, making it economically comparable to a top Chinese city and underscoring how sub-city units are increasingly driving China’s urban economy. This concentration of activity in a handful of districts and counties highlights tensions between agglomeration-driven competitiveness and the need for more balanced regional development.