1st Edition

China's New Urbanization Strategy

    384 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    384 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing China. Of China’s 1.3 billion people, around half still live in rural areas. There has been huge migration from rural areas to cities in recent years, a trend that is likely to continue strong for some time. The strains that this vast migration puts on China’s cities are enormous. This book makes available for the English-speaking reader the results of a large group of research projects undertaken by CDRF, one of China’s leading think tanks, into the details of rural-urban migration, the resulting urban growth and the problems associated with all this. The book goes on to put forward a new strategy, which aims to ensure that China’s urbanization proceeds in an orderly manner and that people and their needs are put at the centre of the strategy. Key parts of the strategy include that 'city clusters' should become the main form of urbanization; that these should be arranged geographically in a pattern of 'two horizontal lines and three vertical lines'; that industrial and employment structures should highlight regional features and diversity; that urban public services should be more equitably distributed; that there should be new forms of urbanization management and city governance to accelerate urbanization and ensure harmonious social development; and that the whole process should be conducted in an ecological, 'green' way.

    Preface I Wang Mengkui  Preface II Chen Yuan Introduction  1. Urbanization in China: process, trends, and challenges  2. Converting rural migrant workers into urban residents in the course of urbanization  3. Setting up a spatial configuration for ‘urbanization’ in China that features ‘two horizontal lines and three vertical lines’  4. Making ‘urban clusters’ the primary form of urbanization in China  5. Industrial structure and employment considerations in the course of urbanization  6. How to improve the provision of public services in urban areas  7. Creating sustainable processes for building and financing urban infrastructure  8. A ‘green path’ toward urbanization  9. Innovative approaches to managing ‘urbanization’ and ‘city governance’  10. Policy Recommendations

    Biography

    China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China’s economic reform have been formulated. Its work and publications therefore provide great insights into what the Chinese themselves think about economic reform and how it should develop.