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China Rising: A four-part special series
Publication date: Thu 23 May 2013
Document type: Video
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow. After centuries of western dominance, the world’s centre of economic and political weight is shifting...
Errors in urbanization must be avoided
Publication date: Sun 14 Apr 2013
China should learn from the negative urbanization experiences in foreign countries and set out a clear plan from the start, economists and entrepreneurs said at the Boao Forum for Asia. Neville Power...
Spike in land abuse cases in China's western regions
Publication date: Sat 13 Apr 2013
Document type: Article
Chinese authorities are drawing up new land support policies for western parts of the country, following a sharp spike in land abuse cases in the region during the first three months of the year.
New housing rules planned for migrants
Publication date: Fri 12 Apr 2013
Document type: Article
Detailed rules for migrant workers who want to apply for government-subsidized houses in cities will be released in eight months, the country's top housing authority said. The Ministry of Housing and...
Errors in urbanization must be avoided
Publication date: Mon 8 Apr 2013
Document type: Article
China should learn from the negative urbanization experiences in foreign countries and set out a clear plan from the start, economists and entrepreneurs said at the Boao Forum for Asia. Neville Power...
Urban livelihoods and urbanization trends in Africa: winners and losers?
Publication date: Mon 1 Apr 2013
Document type: Article
There is much speculation today that urban economies in sub-Saharan Africa are greatly improving and that the region may be on the brink of an upsurge in economic development. However, in terms of a...
Rural migrant workers top 262 million
Publication date: Fri 22 Feb 2013
Document type: Article
Nearly one in every five Chinese people were rural migrant workers - those from rural areas working in cities - by the end of last year, official statistics showed on Friday. The number of rural...
Expert suggests caution over 'fragmented' urbanization
Publication date: Thu 21 Feb 2013
Document type: Article
Hundreds of new cities. Millions of new urban residents. Surging consumer demand as a result. But one economics professor says the governement still needs to take a hard look at how exactly the...
China's urban balancing act
Publication date: Thu 7 Feb 2013
Document type: Article
At the teeming central railway station in downtown Beijing, the world's largest annual human migration is underway, as millions of workers head back to their ancestral towns and villages to celebrate...
Reform land expropriation system for new urbanization
Publication date: Mon 4 Feb 2013
Document type: Article
As the phrase "new urbanization" becomes popular with governments, we need to ask if it is the right time for China to talk about new urbanization, says an article in the 21st Centurty Business...
Rural land reforms to empower farmers
Publication date: Mon 4 Feb 2013
Document type: Article
Chinese farmers are expected to have more say in determining the destiny of their contracted land as the government vows to intensify reforms to back their rights.
China to help migrant workers in urbanization
Publication date: Fri 1 Feb 2013
Document type: Article
Chinese authorities on Thursday underlined the need to help rural migrant workers become urban residents, calling it an important task for the country's urbanization, according to its first policy...
Food struggle may threaten urbanization: official
Publication date: Sat 26 Jan 2013
Document type: Article
When crowds of Chinese farmers leave their land and settled down in cities, the crop-growing master-hands may not have enough food to eat, an agricultural official warned Saturday. Chen Xiwen,...
Equal modernization fuits for urban, rural residents
Publication date: Fri 16 Nov 2012
Document type: Article
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will promote the urban-rural integration drive so as to ensure that rural residents equally share the benefits of modernization, said Xi Jinping when explaining a...
Extraregional migration in the South: the case of China and Afria.
Publication date: Thu 15 Nov 2012
Document type: Article
In recent years, the People's Republic of China is not only the source of a large number of the world's international migrants but increasingly a destination for labour migrants, including sub-...
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