Guangdong's Bay Area cities attracting talent

Guangdong, with 126 million people, topped the table for provincial population size according to the latest national census.

Many of those people live in the nine cities on the Chinese mainland that are part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, a megalopolis that stretches across the Pearl River Delta.

The Bay Area, encompassing nine cities in Guangdong plus Hong Kong and Macao, was home to over 72 million people last year.