--FILE--Cityscape of YanAn city, northwest Chinas Shaanxi province, 13 October 2012. Yanan, the iconic centre of the Communist Partys revolutionary
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--FILE--Cityscape of YanAn city, northwest Chinas Shaanxi province, 13 October 2012. Yanan, the iconic centre of the Communist Partys revolutionary past, has answered the central governments call for urbanization by flattening an area of the erosion-prone Loess Plateau almost as large as Hong Kong Island. Thousands of excavators and dump trucks have worked around the clock since April to level 33 hills in the citys suburbs, The Time Weekly magazine reported. The 78.5-square-kilometre development would more than double the urban area of Yanan, which served as refuge to Mao Zedongs Red Army after the Long March. Local officials hope the 100 billion yuan (US$16 billion) project will help the booming oil town overcome its space crunch. With a Y-shaped footprint wedged between three mountains, Yanan has a population density of 14, 700 people per square kilometre, a figure similar to Beijing and Shanghai. An earlier report by the 21st Century Business Herald said about 200, 000 people would be moved to the new town once construction is finished.