---- Massen der Passagiere in einem Zug von Guangzhou Metro Linie 3 gesehen werden, dem weltweit schnellsten U-Bahn, in Guangzhou City, South China Guangdong pr
--FILE--Crowds of passengers are seen in a train of the Guangzhou Metro Line 3, the worlds fastest metro, in Guangzhou city, south Chinas Guangdong province, 4 May 2010. Chinas urban population is to surpass its rural population for the first time by 2015, with the number of Chinese living in towns and cities set to top 700 million, Xinhua news agency reported. Li Bin, director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said that the worlds most populous country is projected to have 1.39 billion citizens by 2015, up from 1.32 billion at the end of 2008, Xinhua quoted her as saying. The number of people over 60 would pass 200 million, the first boom in the old-age population, she said. An average of 8 million are expected to turn 60 each year, 3.2 million more than the average in 2006-2010.
