Drexel professor discusses China’s urbanization problems

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By Kyeland Jackson —

Drexell University professor Richard Dilworth presented the status of urbanization in China in Ekstrom Library on March 23. Aaron Vance, incoming president of the Student Government Association, was among the attendees.

Part of the Asia In Focus Speaker Series, Dilworth talked about where China was headed economically and industrially.

Dilworth compared urbanization in the United States to China, noting the speculative investments both powers made during those times. He said the U.S. invested in a number of towns during the 1800s as large numbers of people began migration to the West. Many of those towns…