Editing Guangzhou (section)

===Development of Guangzhou===
Gong et al. 2018 report on the development of Guangzhou from 1990 until 2020, showing how in 1990, the developed residential districts were almost exclusively concentrated in a small part of western Guangzhou whereas other parts of Guangzhou had a smaller limited amount of developed residential communities being overwhelmingly surrounded by agricultural and forest lands. However, from 2005 until 2020, other parts of the city eventually began to develop more so residential communities and in the 2020 map report, it showed fully developed residential communities going from west to east of the city whereas the very southern part and large portions of northern Guangzhou still remain mainly agricultural and forest lands with very limited developed residential communities.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gong |first1=Jianzhou |last2=Hu |first2=Zhiren |last3=Chen |first3=Wenli |last4=Liu |first4=Yansui |last5=Wang |first5=Jieyong |title=Urban expansion dynamics and modes in metropolitan Guangzhou, China |journal=Land Use Policy |date=March 2018 |volume=72 |pages=100–109 |doi=10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.12.025 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2018LUPol..72..100G }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0264837716310547-gr5.jpg |title=Map showing development of land from 1990 to 2020 |access-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407154545/https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0264837716310547-gr5.jpg |url-status=live }}{{full citation needed|date=April 2025}}</ref>