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.
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