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What's Next in Urbanizing China with Lola Woetzel
21 minutes Posted Mar 12, 2026 at 3:05 pm.
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Since opening to foreign investment and trade, China has seen an ensuing urbanization that would make industrial economies of the 19th century blush: Beijing alone went from 20,000 cars to about 6 million in 40 years. Along the way, hundreds of miles of high speed rail, thousands of layers of digital infrastructure, and countless new housing units came with that urbanization - but what has China learned from its breakneck urbanization, and what will places like the Arabian Gulf take from it? To answer that, host Nick Perloff-Giles is joined by Lola Woetzel, China expert and Founder & Partner at Global6, a global advisory firm.