Wuhan skyline
Wuhan is undergoing a construction boom
China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy - a landmark achievement, but one that is not attracting much attention in the country itself.
Perhaps that is because it is obvious to any observer that China lags behind its Asian neighbour in so many measures that matter to the people that live here.
China's huge population means the average wealth per head is a fraction of that in Japan.
Living standards are considerably lower in much of the country, particularly in rural areas.
But it could also be because of concerns about how sensible and how sustainable the current growth model is in the long term - and what costs are being incurred in the dash for growth.
The city of Wuhan in central China is not as famous as Beijing or Shanghai. But in many ways, it is more like the rest of China than either of them.
It is a sprawling, rather grimy industrial town. Its population is as large as Sweden's.
The biggest employer, a steel works, employs 90,000 people.
One of China's great rivers, the Yangtse, cuts through the middle of the city, but from the riverbank it is hard to make out the buildings on the other side.
The city is shrouded in a grey haze which residents blame on pollution from the region's factories.
Business boost
Steve Carpenter, a US businessman who has been working here for several years, has witnessed rapid changes in the city he now calls home.