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Beijing, China is one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the world. Its current population is more than 20 million people, and the population is expected to exceed 25 million by 2020 and possibly 50 million by 2050.1

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Barbier, E.B. (2015). Introduction. In: Nature and Wealth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403391_1

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