Wonder what will happen to the scene in DG, Zhuhai, etc. if this mega city plan is accomplished.

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City planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta.
The "Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One" scheme will create a 16,000 sq mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than Greater London, or twice the size of Wales.
The new mega-city will cover a large part of China's manufacturing heartland, stretching from Guangzhou to Shenzhen and including Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. Together, they account for nearly a tenth of the Chinese economy.
Over the next six years, around 150 major infrastructure projects will mesh the transport, energy, water and telecommunications networks of the nine cities together, at a cost of some 2 trillion yuan (£190 billion). An express rail line will also connect the hub with nearby Hong Kong.
"The idea is that when the cities are integrated, the residents can travel around freely and use the health care and other facilities in the different areas," said Ma Xiangming, the chief planner at the Guangdong Rural and Urban Planning Institute and a senior consultant on the project.

However, he said no name had been chosen for the area. "It will not be like Greater London or Greater Tokyo because there is no one city at the heart of this megalopolis," he said. "We cannot just name it after one of the existing cities."
"It will help spread industry and jobs more evenly across the region and public services will also be distributed more fairly," he added.
Mr Ma said that residents would be able to use universal rail cards and buy annual tickets to allow them to commute around the mega-city.
Twenty-nine rail lines, totalling 3,100 miles, will be added, cutting rail journeys around the urban area to a maximum of one hour between different city centres. According to planners, phone bills could also fall by 85 per cent and hospitals and schools will be improved.
"Residents will be able to choose where to get their services and will use the internet to find out which hospital, for example, is less busy," said Mr Ma.
Pollution, a key problem in the Pearl River Delta because of its industrialisation, will also be addressed with a united policy, and the price of petrol and electricity could also be unified.
The southern conglomeration is intended to wrestle back a competitive advantage from the growing urban areas around Beijing and Shanghai.
By the end of the decade, China plans to move ever greater numbers into its cities, creating some city zones with 50 million to 100 million people and "small" city clusters of 10 million to 25 million.

Either nothing will change or the whole thing will go underground but you can bet your bottom dollar that the world's oldest profession will continue to thrive in any city, state or country that has demand for it.

i think the mega city will foster more competition and in turns means us 'consumers' will benefit!

and perhaps it will also attract more girls to work in the scene there

It will probably bring more high end KTV's and Saunas with higher prices

I disagree - prices would probably drop because punters can now travel easily between these cities, being able to go where the best pricing and girls are located, instead of being priced in by location.

I went to Dongguan recently, it is really quite run down actually. Reminds me of places in Vietnam or outback of Malaysia.
It will be good if they turn it into a big modern city, but after that inflation will kick in and the WL prices will shoot sky high.

All depends on where you were at EXACTLY in Dongguan.

Its a huge area with many many separate towns and "standards" varies from Very run-down to very nice places.

SEAJ