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Real land reform requires more than words
Publication date: Thu 3 Apr 2014
Document type: Article
The central government unveiled its first detailed national urbanization plan last month, which aims to allow 100 million migrant workers to achieve urban residence status (hukou) by 2020. Those...
Urbanization should provide new opportunities to farmers
Publication date: Thu 3 Apr 2014
Document type: Article
Villages prevailed in the Communist Party of China's revolutionary discourse until the latter won the civil war over the Kuomintang by mobilizing poor farmers to besiege cities in 1949, when 90...
Urbanization will drive China's growth
Publication date: Thu 27 Mar 2014
Document type: Article
Consumer spending in China will be given a boost by further urbanization according to a leading official, as a new government plan anticipates 60% of the population will live in urban areas within...
Urbanization can close China's income gap: OECD economist
Publication date: Sun 23 Mar 2014
Document type: Article
Urbanization can help ease China's urban-rural income disparity, a senior economist with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Saturday. Margit Molnar, head of the...
China in Africa: Economics in Africa
Publication date: Sun 9 Mar 2014
Document type: Article
China is increasingly becoming involved in all aspects of development within Africa. From infrastructure building to the investment in aid on the continent. The following articles explore this...
China to grant urban residency to 100 million
Publication date: Wed 5 Mar 2014
Document type: Article
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced a bold plan on Wednesday to turn more rural people into city dwellers and improve their quality of life. Urbanization is the sure route to modernization and an...
Access to social insurance in urban China: A comparative study of rural–urban and urban–urban migrants in Beijing
Publication date: Wed 27 Nov 2013
Document type: Research paper
Habitat International, Volume 41, January 2014, Pages 243–252. Since 1958 the hukou (household registration) system has assigned. Chinese citizens either a rural or urban status. Some studies argue...
Functional transition of the rural settlement: Analysis of land-use differentiation in a transect of Beijing, China
Publication date: Wed 27 Nov 2013
Document type: Research paper
Habitat International, Volume 41, January 2014, Pages 262–271. Diversity, complexity and change have become the hallmarks of contemporary Chinese rural settlements. However, the literature so far has...
Chinese malls in Johannesburg: Towards a process of spatial and commercial hybridization
Publication date: Wed 27 Nov 2013
Abstract: South Africa embodies the most complex portrait of Chinese presence in Africa, both as a preferred destination for Chinese investment and also attracted rising numbers of independent...
Urbanization, legal reform big challenges for China
Publication date: Sun 17 Nov 2013
Document type: Article
Urbanization and legal reform are two big issues faced by Chinese leaders currently, experts said on Saturday.
China to help migrant workers in urbanization
Publication date: Sun 17 Nov 2013
Document type: Article
Chinese authorities on Thursday underlined the need to help rural migrant workers become residents, calling it an important task for the country's urbanization, according to its first policty...
Rural reform, step by step
Publication date: Sat 16 Nov 2013
Document type: Article
China's new leadership has determined to build a fairer mechanism to narrow the urban-rural divide and maintain social stability during its urbanization drive.
Equal modernization fruits for urban, rural residents
Publication date: Mon 11 Nov 2013
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...
Urbanization quality is more important than speed
Publication date: Thu 31 Oct 2013
Document type: Article
The government should prioritize the quality of urbanization, said an article in the Southern Metropolis Daily.
West African Traders as Translators Between Chinese and African Urban Modernities
Publication date: Sun 16 Jun 2013
Document type: Research paper
In the first phase of our research project we established that in contrast to over-exaggerating local discourses the direct impact of the resident Chinese economic actors on local economic practices...
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