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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by est on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @04:49AM (#16007923)
It's simple. The rest 40M+ ppl in the city are "illegal immigrants". Which means no permanent residency, no health care, no education but only cheap labor.
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by 4684499 on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @05:09AM (#16007970)
Excuse me, but where does the number 40M+ come from?
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by baybal2 on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @08:13AM (#16008443)
Greater Beijing region may be?
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @08:27AM (#16008487)
Greater BJ is just about 20 million.
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by baybal2 on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @08:43AM (#16008547)
Greater BJ + nearby parts of Hubei?
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:43AM (#16008755)
Beijing is a province in itself with a lot of countryside and satellite cities (chanping, miyun, etc...). It would be weird to include nearby surrounding hebei.

Perhaps they meant Beijing and Tianjin combined + Langfang and Zhangjiakou? That could be around 40 million. Jingjinji (Tiānjīn, Beijing, Hebei) is around 130 million, but that includes all of hebei.

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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by xiaopanga on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @10:07AM (#16008868)
Hebei not Hubei
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @10:41AM (#16009030)
Ah, I missed that. Ya, Hubei would have been a huge stretch, though you might be able to attach that to chongqing.
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by yazaddaruvala on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @10:02AM (#16008839)
That is a very solvable problem!

Just apply the right amount of pressure :)

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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by mythrwy on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:58AM (#16008822)
Oh you can. You just distill the rum out and feed the unneeded portion to the pigs. Which is presumably something like what is going on.
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