Agricultural workers tend a grape field in Yanjiao, a rapidly expanding satellite city of over 700,000 people, outside Beijing. Yanjiao, a city of sky scraping apartment blocks, is rapidly consuming all of the villages surrounding it. Beijing is a prime example of China's rapid urbanization. China's capital city is planning on joining Tianjin to create a massive supercity of over 100 million people in an effort to become an economic powerhouse on par with the Pearl River Delta region and Shanghai's Yangtze River Delta. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
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