cff-version: 1.2.0 abstract: "We collected economic city profiles from the sentences expressing city’s development targets from three economic and social development plans, urban plans and land use plans at national, privincial and municipal levels in China. At the national level, only crucial sentences about regional development of the Great Pearl River Delta as a whole is given by the central government. At the provincial and municipal levels, a collection of economic city profiles in the Great Pearl River Delta was derived from provincial and municipal planning documents." authors: - family-names: Lu given-names: Haiyan orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4880-7490" title: "Great Pearl River Delta (GPRD), 11 economic city profiles from national, provincial and municipal planning documents" keywords: version: 1 identifiers: - type: doi value: 10.4121/uuid:ddaabf62-530e-4df2-a0b2-30c75679c7e7 license: 4TU General Terms of Use date-released: 2017-03-22