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Urban China

  • Commercial and residential buildings in Hong Kong at night

    Hong Kong from the skies – in pictures

    An urban photo essay of the Chinese territory made between October and December 2018
  • Chimneys rising above the skyline of Baoding, Hebei province, some 140 km south of Beijing early on March 10, 2013.

    Welcome to Baoding, China's most polluted city

    In February, Baoding was given the unwanted title of having the worst air quality in the whole of China. Jennifer Duggan pays a visit – and discovers a city desperate to reinvent itself as a pioneer of renewable energy
  • A development on the outskirts of Kangbashi, Ordos

    'Re-education' campaigns teach China's new ghost city-dwellers how to behave

  • Ordos China

    Learning to live in the city: Chinese farmers get lessons in urban life – video

  • Beijing subway timelapse

    A claustrophobic 2 minutes on Beijing's metro – timelapse video

    At 465km long, the Beijing metro system has already outgrown the London Underground. By 2020, an extra 400bn yuan (£40bn) of investment will see it more than double to 1,000km, according to Chinese media. The addition of 17 new lines will make it one of the world's longest networks

  • Russian daredevils scale the Shanghai Tower, China's new tallest building

    Pair climb 650 metres to top of skyscraper and beyond, giving them an extraordinary view of fast-growing city
    • Climbing the Shanghai Tower - in pictures
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