With modern logistics, hardware and 5/6G, the utility of hyper-concentrated cities really is becoming questionable. Xi has Big Plans here. One of the most resilient blockers to actual "rural revitalization", I guess, is just access to "good schools". Wonder how it goes.
Churchill, 1931, in his essay "50 Years Hence," predicting that worldwide wireless communication would render cities obsolete due to remote work, so that everyone would just live in villages with their friends and connect with their coworkers remotely



