5 Urbanization Winners

China's aging population and attractive first-tier cities make the urbanization strategy a difficult one for many cities. The article below runs through various numbers to show which cities are most likely to see home prices increase and it is a who's who of the top cities in China. National GDP will rise if people move to wealthier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Chongqing, but urbanization will not solve housing inventory problems in fourth-tier cities.
5 cities have both a large population inflow, as well as a high growth rate in this flow:

Tianjin, Beijing, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, Wuhan

The first-tier cleans up in total non-native population:

Among them, Shanghai to 9.8165 million net inflow of population ranked first in major cities, has become the largest foreign resident population of the city. The net inflow of capital, Beijing, the number of population reached 8.226 million, ranking second. Shenzhen followed by Beijing, with a population of 7.829 million net inflow of third. Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen happens to be the highest price of the current three-tier cities.

After three first-tier cities, "world factory" in Dongguan, a net inflow of population reached 6.304 million, ranking fourth in the country. Fifth Tianjin, the immigrant population has reached 5.2 million, 200,000 more than in Guangzhou. From this, in recent years, Guangzhou, Tianjin's economic aggregate in hot pursuit, while the resident population is also increasing, even more than in Guangzhou.

Xiamen is almost 50% non-native:

Xiamen places 45.3% of the nation's fourth highest rate, the immigrant population is also close to the domicile population. Shanghai ranked fifth with 40.64 percent, the immigrant population accounted for five cities were more than 40%. After Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Guangzhou breakdown 6-8, the proportion of these three cities between 35% and 40%.

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