Chinas extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living in cities rising from 18% in 1978 to 54% in 2014. Currently the Chinese government has amongst its objectives the target to increase this to 60% by 2020, and also to improve the quality of Chinas cities. This book examines a wide range of issues connected to Chinas urbanization. It considers the many problems which have come with rapid urbanization, including urban housing problems, difficulties affecting rural migrants in urban areas, and a lack of social protection. It examines areas of current reform, including land reform, shanty town renewal and moves to address environmental problems. It explores governance issues, and throughout assesses how urbanization in China is likely to develop in future.
Introduction Part I Development Policies and Industrial Development
1.
Urbanization as a new engine for future growth
2. Urbanization and
urban-rural consumption divide Part II Social development in Chinas
urbanization
3. Making housing affordable in an urbanizing China
4.
Re-assessing informal migration and urbanization in China
5. Social programs
for urban working class in China: unemployment insurance and minimum
livelihood guarantee scheme Part III Land and rural development
6. The issue
of land in Chinas transition and urbanization
7. Urbanization and emerging
urban land use patterns
8. Rural land consolidation in China
9. Rural
migration and rural development
10. Why is a free and competitive land market
indispensable for China to resolve the rural-urban duality through endogenous
urbanization? Part IV Urban planning and governance
11. Assessing Chinas
Shantytown regeneration program
12. Exploring the vision and strategy of
intelligent cities in
13. Awakening environment consciousness challenging
municipal governance
Zheng Yongnian is Professor and Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
Zhao Litao is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian institute, National University of Singapore.
Sarah Y. Tong is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
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