Jonathan Woetzel is a director in McKinsey’s Shanghai office. He has led its Asia-Pacific Energy and Materials practice, the McKinsey Global Institute in Asia, and its Corporate Finance practice in China. His expertise is in strategy, particularly for industrial and consumer companies and government entities in China.
China now has a historic chance to reinvent not only its cities but the very idea of a city. The choices that its city leaders make will shape not only its buildings but also its society, and indeed the world.
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The year is 2040. China and the United States dominate the world landscape, forming an uneasy and not entirely stable partnership, bound together by ties of mutual benefit.
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