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...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...