开个玩笑而已，其实是官媒翻译错误，英国人的理解也有错，他们说的是泛珠三角城市圈，但是用了广州的名字。
全球25座超级大城市排名公布 东京第一广州第二
2011-01-25 环球时报-环球网
环球网记者王欣报道，英国媒体于1月25日公布了一份2011年全球超级大城市排行榜。在该榜单中，共有25座人口超过1000万的城市入选，其中有三座城市来自中国。日本东京在榜上稳居第一，而紧随其后的是中国的广州市。
据 英国《每日电讯报》1月25日消息，所谓“超级大城市”，是指常住人口超过1000万的大型都市。日本东京市以3420万的人口总量稳居第一，而中国的广 州市则以2490万的人口总量位列第二，排名第三的是韩国的首都首尔，人口总量为2450万。除了广州之外，中国另外两座上榜的城市是排名第10的上海和第20的北京。
报道对入选的25个城市进行了简要的描述。在提到广州时，报道称，广州人口总量的官方数据为1033.4万，但这只是2009年地方政府提供的信息。由于广州市的工厂向四面八方蔓延，其人口数量比官方的数字要大得多；上海则被称为是中国“名副其实的最大城市”，它收容了大量的外来人口； 而北京作为中国的首都和政治、经济中心，每年都会迎来数目众多的新居民。
除上述城市外，入选“超级大城市”的还有印度首都新德里、墨西哥首都墨西哥城、美国纽约、菲律宾首都马尼拉、美国洛杉矶、俄罗斯首都莫斯科等世界著名城市。
China's mega city: the world's largest cities
In 2011, there were 25 mega-cities in the world, with Greater Tokyo already having a population greater than Australia and New Zealand combined.
A mega-city is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population of more than 10 million people.
Greater Tokyo – 34.2 million (population) 0.6 per cent growth (between 2009 and 2010)
Guangzhou – 24,900,000, 4pc growth
Seoul – 24,500,000, 1.4pc growth
Delhi – 23,900,000, 4.60pc growth
Mumbai – 23,300,000, 2.9pc
Mexico City – 22,800,000, 2.00pc
New York City – 22,200,000, 0.3pc
Sao Paulo – 20,800,000, 1.4pc
Manila – 20,100,000, 2.5pc
Shanghai – 18,800,000, 2.2pc
Jakarta – 18,700,000, 2pc
Los Angeles – 17,900,000, 1.10pc
Osaka – 16,800,000, 0.15pc
Karachi – 16,700,000, 4.90pc
Calcutta – 16,600,000, 2.00pc
Cairo – 15,300,000, 2.6pc
Buenos Aires – 14,800,000, 1pc
Moscow – 14,800,000, 0.2pc
Dhaka – 14,000,000, 4.1pc
Beijing – 13,900,000, 2.7pc
Tehran – 13,100,000, 2.60pc
Istanbul – 13,000,000, 2.8pc
London – 12,500,000, 0.7pc
Rio de Janeiro – 12,500,000, 1pc
Lagos – 12,100,000, 3.2pc
*This list is an estimate due to the difficulty in defining some mega cities and accurately estimating some populations.
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China plans megacity with higher population than Canada
BEIJING - China is planning to create the world's biggest "mega city" by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million.
Planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta.
The scheme will create a 16,000-square mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than Greater London.
The new mega-city will cover a large part of China's manufacturing heartland, stretching from Guangzhou to Shenzhen and including Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. Together, they account for nearly a tenth of the Chinese economy.
A mega-city is usually defined as a metropolitan area with more than 10 million people. The world's largest mega-city is currently Greater Tokyo, with some 34.2 million inhabitants. Guangzhou, thought to be home to almost 25 million people, ranks second, with Seoul third at 24.5 million.
During the next six years, around 150 major infrastructure projects will mesh the transport, energy, water and telecommunications networks of the nine Chinese cities together, at a cost of some two trillion yuan ($257 billion Cdn). An express rail line will also connect the hub with nearby Hong Kong.
"The idea is that when the cities are integrated, the residents can travel around freely and use the health care and other facilities in the different areas," said Ma Xiangming, the chief planner at the Guangdong Rural and Urban Planning Institute and a senior consultant on the project.
However, he said no name had been chosen for the area. "It will not be like Greater London or Greater Tokyo because there is no one city at the heart of this megalopolis," he said. "We cannot just name it after one of the existing cities.
"It will help spread industry and jobs more evenly across the region and public services will be distributed more fairly."
Mr Ma said that residents would be able to use universal rail cards.
Twenty-nine rail lines, totalling 3,100 miles, will be added, cutting rail journeys around the urban area to a maximum of one hour between different city centres. According to planners, phone bills could also fall by 85 per cent and hospitals and schools will be improved.
"Residents will be able to choose where to get their services and will use the internet to find out which hospital, for example, is less busy," said Mr Ma.
Pollution, a key problem in the Pearl River Delta because of its industrialisation, will also be addressed with a united policy, and the price of petrol and electricity could also be unified.
It is hoped that the southern conglomeration will wrestle back a competitive advantage from the growing urban areas around Beijing and Shanghai.
By the end of the decade, China plans to move ever greater numbers into its cities, creating some city zones with 50 million to 100 million people and "small" city clusters of 10 million to 25 million.
In the north, the area around Beijing and Tianjin is being ringed with a network of high-speed railways that will create a super-urban area known as the Bohai Economic Rim. Its population could be as high as 260 million.
A new train link between Beijing and Tianjing allows the 75-mile journey to be completed in less than half an hour, providing an axis around which to create a network of feeder cities.
As the process gathers pace, China's total investment in urban infrastructure over the next five years is expected to hit $928 billion, according to an estimate by the British Chambers of Commerce, with an additional $406 billion spent on high speed rail and $94 billion on urban transport.
Daily Telegraph
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