The picture below is an early morning photo at the train station of a second-tier city in China.

下面的图片展示了中国一个二线城市的火车站清晨的图景。

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This paper argues that a second-tier city in a global city region not only plays important functions in the global urban system but also within the global city region.

作为国际城市区域中的二级城市不仅在全球城市体系中发挥作用，同时也在国际城市区域中担任重要的功能。

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Often they are jobs at a second - or third-tier city, where the presence of pale-faced foreigners is needed to impress local officials.

他们的工作范围通常集中在二线或者三线城市，在这种城市中一个外表堂堂的外国人会给当地官员留下比较好的印象。

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Hardest hit, say analysts, are those brands that haven't built up nationally by expanding into second- and third-tier cities developed provincial capitals and prefecture or country-level city capitals where consumer demand is still strong.

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Prices will decline more in the city's fringe areas but not so much in the centers of first- and second-tier cities, he added.

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