The question is who speaks for his generation's children, who are moving to provincial cities, eager to trade up.

问题是，谁来为村民们正热切地搬往外省城市的子孙后代们说话？

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Dalian is one of the 15 sub-provincial cities, five cities with independent planning, one of the Northeast's third largest city.

大连是15个副省级城市、5个计划单列市之一，东北第三大城市。

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The only provincial cities of any size that do not already boast one or more new shopping malls and multiplex cinemas are about to get them.

仅有的几个还没有一两家新型购物中心和多功能电影院的省会城市也将马上会有。

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But the leaders of provincial cities are keen to broaden the focus of urban regeneration projects.

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In most provincial cities, by contrast, basic services and security have by now returned.

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It is probably no coincidence that Britain's golden age in the 19th century was also a period of powerful provincial cities.

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