7 Billion Humans | National Geographic Magazine: Subway Crowds | Urbanization | Guangzhou, China

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Subway Crowds | Urbanization | Guangzhou, China

There is a reason Guangzhou is the first city in China to reach first world status in 2008. Everyone in GZ (outside of the migrant population) is making an average of $830 a month. Money has approximately four times more buying power in China than the United States.  So that $830 a month is actually $3320 a month in our economy. That is the same buying power on average as citizens have in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.