At one of those factories in an industrial suburb of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, a worker uses a sewing machine to stitch together black padding for an orthopedic foot brace.
Thanks to a lead from my college Chinese teacher, I found a job as a business analyst at a technology company in a suburb of Guangzhou, China's third-largest city.
Taking big cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shenyang and Dalian, as examples, this paper summarizes the situation of population suburbanization in China.