The annual salary a Chinese engineer can expect to make in the coastal cities.
About half of them moved out of the coastal cities and the rest were laid off.
But now, in 2009, the urban coastal cities are in a world of hurt.
The royals would come to Al Ain to try and escape the extreme humidity of the larger coastal cities.
Coastal cities that are vulnerable to climate change are also powerful magnets drawing people from the countryside.
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Rising income disparity has threatened to price out many working and middle class Chinese from the coastal cities.
In fact, Numbeo shows that even in our coastal cities, price-to-income ratios are very reasonable by world standards.
In some coastal cities, like Shanghai, the middle income trap is changing the growth trajectory of major urban centers.
Mostly, we know that coastal cities ( New York, DC, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Amsterdam, etc.) are in trouble.
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He sees a continuing vast migration of Chinese farmers to coastal cities, doubling the size of Beijing and Shanghai.
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Its culmination, perhaps, is the insane Libyan scheme to drain the last Saharan aquifer for its extravagant coastal cities.
But in spirit they embody precisely what sets Macau apart from China's other freewheeling coastal cities: its bicultural heritage.
It resembles a frenetic game of multiple ping pong, or a jackpot pinball, played mainly between big coastal cities.
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The scale of the latest haul highlights the growth of party culture in Beijing and in China's large coastal cities.
That measure has attracted some 50, 000 Russians, mostly businessmen, to take up residence in the coastal cities of Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos.
China still has cheap labor in its interior, away from its developed coastal cities, and productivity gains could mitigate higher wage costs.
First, China remains a very poor country outside of its coastal cities.
Marcelo Prado, the police commander responsible for Sao Paulo's coastal cities, told the BBC that his officers were now taking additional precautions.
China's coal is located in the north and west of the country, far from the coastal cities where energy demand is growing strongly.
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Another necessity, one under way in Copenhagen, is a plan to adapt to changes expected to negatively impact coastal cities in a warming world.
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Ever since China opened its doors for business in 1978, there have been foreign workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other large Eastern coastal cities.
The presence of compelling offshore-wind resources close to major U.S. coastal cities has attracted attention from municipal planners and decision makers in New York City.
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"The Feet are moving south and west while the Brains are moving toward coastal cities, " Derek Thompson wrote a few years ago in The Atlantic.
So, if the removal of the forests from the mountains whose rivers feed the coastal cities is not to blame for disastrous floods, what is?
The growth is, in large part, down to China's relentless drive to urbanise, which has now shifted from the coastal cities to inland areas like Wuhan.
The fury spread to Tunisia's coastal cities, growing as gory imagery relayed by cell phones and the internet clashed with the sanitised blandness of state television.
After years of growth in the major coastal cities, such as Shanghai and Beijing, interest has grown in the booming and vast interior of the country.
Though the prosperous coastal cities are driven by exports, the seaward-looking part of the country accounts for perhaps no more than a third of China's economy.
According to which you believe, great earthquakes will cause California to fall into the Pacific, tidal waves will devastate coastal cities, or the earth's crust will shift.
However, a recent study of coastal cities still predicted the Philippines' capital Manila would see its vulnerability to flooding double by the end of the century, due to sea-level rises.
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