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This week, we go to China where
El País
tells the story of the birth of a megacity through the eyes of five incredulous peasants.
Behind the window of the bus that takes them to the new high-speed train station, they witness the blossoming of Xiong'an, a city designed as a satellite city of Beijing, located about a hundred kilometers south of the capital. .
The plains crossed by rivers and swamps, which these young retirees have cultivated their entire lives, are today blocked by construction site gates and dotted with cranes and building bars which are lost in the perspective, reports El
País
.
Xiong'an bears the mark of Xi Jinping.
The Chinese president sees it as the new dream socialist city which must
“stand the test of History”
.
He dreams of making his mark as Deng Xiaoping did in the 1980s with Shenzhen, the country's first special economic zone founded on a fishing village;
or Pudong, financial district…
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