What geographical features of China led to the growth of cities

Explanation:

The geographical things that led to growth of cities would be because of water lakes/rivers, crops, farming, construction, and more agriculture!

China has transformed itself in just a few decades from a rural, low-income nation to a booming urban system, displaying rates of economic development and social change that are unprecedented in history for a nation of its size. As recently as the mid-20th century, China’s economy was dominated by its primary sector and urbanized areas provided only a minor part to the value creation of the national economy. The vast majority of the population lived in rural areas, accounting for an urbanization rate of only 20% as recently as in 1975 [1]. Within a few decades this picture changed completely: by 2011, more than half of the Chinese population lived in urban areas and the contribution of the primary sector to the national economy in terms of value became almost negligible.

The explosive growth of Chinese cities and the general demographic and economic restructuring of the country via massive urbanization are the principal manifestations of this monumental transformation [2]. Certain quantities, such as GDP, land area, and road length [3, 4], follow scaling laws also in the Chinese urban system. However, relatively little is known quantitatively about the development trajectory of Chinese cities among other quantities on the aggregate. Specifically, whether their growth and development have parallels in past historical examples in other nations and show similar patterns of agglomeration, as urban theory would suggest.