The East Is Rising

Meet the 29 Chinese cities powering global growth.

BY ELIAS GROLL | SEPT/OCT 2012

Dongguan: This manufacturing hub is home to the world's largest shopping mall, a 9.6 million-square-foot vanity project built by homegrown billionaire Hu Guirong. Today, it sits largely empty. Designed to be the world's largest mall, with space for fun fairs, hotels, and luxury residences amid more than 1,500 stores, the complex failed to attract the necessary foreign investment.

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Elias Groll is an editorial assistant at Foreign Policy.