Industrial Composition and Agglomeration Shadow: Evidence from China’s Large Urban Systems

Table 1

2015 summary statistics: cities with 300,000 inhabitants or more.

Year	1980	1990	2000	2010	2015
Mean size (thousands)	276	406	755	1066	1248
Median Size(thousands)	103	187	372	523	607
Number of cities with 0.5–1 million people	29	35	79	119	153
Number of cities with 1–5 million people	16	32	56	68	86
Number of cities with 5–10 million people	2	2	5	10	10
Number of cities with above 10 million people	0	0	2	4	6