The East Is Rising

Meet the 29 Chinese cities powering global growth.

BY ELIAS GROLL | SEPT/OCT 2012

Tianjin: Tianjin is home to the world's largest military theme park, where visitors can stay at a hotel aboard a former Soviet aircraft carrier, the Kiev. Outside the city, the Chinese and Singaporean governments are building an environmentally friendly city from scratch. Known as the Tianjin Eco-city, it is expected to house 350,000 residents. Above, a pedestrian walks past a scale model of the planned Tianjin Binhai New Area CBD (Central Business District) in August 2011.

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Elias Groll is an editorial assistant at Foreign Policy.