Incomplete urbanization roadmap
14 years, 7 months ago

Incomplete urbanization roadmap

China Daily  

Opinion Incomplete urbanization roadmap Updated: 2010-08-02 14:15 There is definite consensus that urbanization will fuel China's fast economic growth in coming years. A report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has revealed that China's urban population touched 620 million last year, accounting for 46 percent of the country's total. Given that Chinese farmers on average earn just one-third of what their urban cousins take home annually, it is easy to conclude that rapid urbanization will result in a substantial increase in the country's overall income levels, thereby incurring massive urban infrastructure investment. Only by reforming the country's rigid household registration system will migrant workers become equal and permanent members of urban society.

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New urbanization a fresh growth impetus
2 months, 1 week ago

New urbanization a fresh growth impetus

China Daily  

MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY As China's economy shifts from rapid growth to high-quality development, the policy of new urbanization has become key to unlocking domestic demand and promoting balanced regional development. The core of new urbanization rests on three key principles: people-centered urbanization, urban-rural coordination, and balanced regional development, as well as green and sustainable development. By promoting green building practices, …

New urbanization a fresh growth impetus
2 months, 1 week ago

New urbanization a fresh growth impetus

China Daily  

MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY As China's economy shifts from rapid growth to high-quality development, the policy of new urbanization has become key to unlocking domestic demand and promoting balanced regional development. The core of new urbanization rests on three key principles: people-centered urbanization, urban-rural coordination, and balanced regional development, as well as green and sustainable development. By promoting green building practices, …

China accelerates urban renewal efforts to create livable, resilient cities
2 months, 3 weeks ago

China accelerates urban renewal efforts to create livable, resilient cities

China Daily  

Tourists buy popsicles at the Central Street in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, May 3, 2024. BEIJING - China aims to transform its cities into livable, resilient and smart spaces through continuous urban renewal programs that enhance the urban landscape, improve residents' living conditions, and stimulate domestic demand. A State Council executive meeting held on Friday, which analyzed urban renewal …

China sees rising urbanization rate over past 75 years
6 months ago

China sees rising urbanization rate over past 75 years

China Daily  

Residential buildings pictured in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province on May 9, 2021. BEIJING -- China's urbanization rate, which measures the ratio of permanent urban residents relative to the total population, rose by 55.52 percentage points from the end of 1949 to 66.16 percent by the end of 2023, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Monday. Over the …

'New urbanization' to benefit migrants
6 months, 3 weeks ago

'New urbanization' to benefit migrants

China Daily  

YANG MEINI/FOR CHINA DAILY China has mapped out major steps to further advance its "new urbanization" strategy, offering migrant workers broader access to urban public services, strengthening industrial development in less-urbanized areas and promoting a more shared growth of cities. The 18 percentage-point gap "means there is substantial room for China's urbanization", said Zhang Fei, vice-president of the China Institute …

New urbanization should focus on people's needs
7 months, 3 weeks ago

New urbanization should focus on people's needs

China Daily  

An aerial view of Canton Tower in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. YANG HE/FOR CHINA DAILY China will advance its people-centered new urbanization through concrete measures, according to a five-year action plan unveiled on Wednesday by the State Council, China's Cabinet. The country plans to support more rural migrant workers in settling down in urban areas and aims to lift …

New urbanization should focus on people's needs
7 months, 3 weeks ago

New urbanization should focus on people's needs

China Daily  

An aerial view of Canton Tower in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. YANG HE/FOR CHINA DAILY China will advance its people-centered new urbanization through concrete measures, according to a five-year action plan unveiled on Wednesday by the State Council, China's Cabinet. The country plans to support more rural migrant workers in settling down in urban areas and aims to lift …

Urbanization needs more money on public services
10 months ago

Urbanization needs more money on public services

China Daily  

An aerial panoramic drone photo taken on Jan 24, 2024 shows Yundang Lake and its surroundings in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province. For long the world's most populous country, China witnessed negative population growth in 2022 — its population decreased by 850,000 in 2022 and 2.08 million last year despite a series of government measures to increase the fertility rate. …

Use urbanization lessons to revitalize rural areas
3 years, 9 months ago

Use urbanization lessons to revitalize rural areas

China Daily  

China launched reform and opening-up more than four decades ago essentially to boost economic development, lift hundreds of millions of Chinese people out of poverty, and improve people's lives and livelihoods. But to revitalize rural areas, the government needs to first reduce the economic disparities between urban and rural areas by taking measures develop the rural areas and agricultural sector, …

Absolute poverty can be ended only after rural areas are revitalized
4 years, 6 months ago

Absolute poverty can be ended only after rural areas are revitalized

China Daily  

Liu Dexing thins grapes at a plantation in Xianghuan village of Fu'an city, Fujian province, in May. Now that China is close to eliminating absolute poverty in rural areas, one question is often asked: What are the future plans for rural areas? In 2018, the central government released the 2018-22 National Rural Revitalization Strategy Plan detailing dozens of important requirements, …

Absolute poverty can be ended only after rural areas are revitalized
4 years, 6 months ago

Absolute poverty can be ended only after rural areas are revitalized

China Daily  

Liu Dexing thins grapes at a plantation in Xianghuan village of Fu'an city, Fujian province, in May. Now that China is close to eliminating absolute poverty in rural areas, one question is often asked: What are the future plans for rural areas? In 2018, the central government released the 2018-22 National Rural Revitalization Strategy Plan detailing dozens of important requirements, …

‘This country doesn’t help you. You help yourself’: China’s rural migrants struggle with no work
4 years, 9 months ago

‘This country doesn’t help you. You help yourself’: China’s rural migrants struggle with no work

LA Times  

The villager looked at the photograph of his dead grandmother. China is facing “challenges like never before,” said Premier Li Keqiang as he read the party’s pared-down economic goals. “And if he wasn’t successful, everyone would call him a fool.” Chen’s wife, an out-of-work kindergarten teacher, sat at home monitoring their fourth-grade son’s online lessons every day. “I don’t want …

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent
5 years, 2 months ago

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent

China Daily  

中共中央办公厅、国务院办公厅印发了《关于促进劳动力和人才社会性流动体制机制改革的意见》。 The General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council has jointly issued a guideline to step up reform to improve social mobility of labor force and talent. Conditions for residential settlement will be relaxed for large cities with a residential population of three million to five million in urban …

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent
5 years, 2 months ago

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent

China Daily  

中共中央办公厅、国务院办公厅印发了《关于促进劳动力和人才社会性流动体制机制改革的意见》。 The General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council has jointly issued a guideline to step up reform to improve social mobility of labor force and talent. Conditions for residential settlement will be relaxed for large cities with a residential population of three million to five million in urban …

Reverse urbanization provides new direction for rural regions
6 years, 2 months ago

Reverse urbanization provides new direction for rural regions

China Daily  

Former migrant workers are returning home and establishing their own businesses. During the 40 days of China's most important festival, hundreds of millions of people, most of them migrant workers, return to their hometowns from the distant cities where they work. After 40 years of reform and opening-up, developed East China is witnessing a large-scale industrial transformation, with labor-intensive industries …

Planning today for tomorrow's cities
7 years ago

Planning today for tomorrow's cities

China Daily  

David Blair The movement of Chinese citizens from farms to cities over the past 30 years is the largest and fastest urbanization in the history of the world, by far. The next big infrastructure investment will be into regional rail systems linking smaller cities to large core areas. The Xiongan New Area will be linked tightly with Beijing, allowing people …

China’s shift to city-led growth
7 years, 6 months ago

China’s shift to city-led growth

Live Mint  

China has achieved some four decades of rapid economic growth. Growth in China’s megacities—metropolitan areas with a population exceeding 10 million—has long been heavily constrained by rigid state administrative divisions and planning agencies. By integrating themselves into global supply chains, small cities in Guangdong province—including Dongguan, Huizhou, Shunde and Zhongshan—have played a critical role in establishing China as the “Factory …

Make life convenient while improving living environment
7 years, 10 months ago

Make life convenient while improving living environment

China Daily  

Chinese roses are in full blossom at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, capital of China, May 16, 2017. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan province, known for its vibrant city life, and having studied in Xiamen, Fujian province, one of the five special economic zones set up in the country following the reform and opening-up policy, I quite naturally felt Beijing …

Make life convenient while improving living environment
7 years, 10 months ago

Make life convenient while improving living environment

China Daily  

Chinese roses are in full blossom at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, capital of China, May 16, 2017. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan province, known for its vibrant city life, and having studied in Xiamen, Fujian province, one of the five special economic zones set up in the country following the reform and opening-up policy, I quite naturally felt Beijing …

People-oriented urbanization
7 years, 10 months ago

People-oriented urbanization

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. According to a recent report published by the National Bureau of Statistics, China had 281.71 million migrant workers by the end of 2016, an increase of 1.5 percent from the previous year's figure. Whether migrant workers choose to stay or leave their home …

Diversion instead of prevention for future urbanization
7 years, 11 months ago

Diversion instead of prevention for future urbanization

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. However, with the local government's rising land revenue and increase in operational costs, China Development Research Foundation's vice president Liu Shijing said the competitiveness of the industry has been dented. Secondly, the current land supply system in metropolises needs to be reformed, and …

Diversion instead of prevention for future urbanization
7 years, 11 months ago

Diversion instead of prevention for future urbanization

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. However, with the local government's rising land revenue and increase in operational costs, China Development Research Foundation's vice president Liu Shijing said the competitiveness of the industry has been dented. Secondly, the current land supply system in metropolises needs to be reformed, and …

Let the market determine urbanization
7 years, 11 months ago

Let the market determine urbanization

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. It's true that China’s first-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai have absorbed more public resources than smaller or lower-tier cities. Therefore, I don’t support the claim that governments should relocate public resources, or give higher priority to lower-tier and smaller cities to correct …

Let the market determine urbanization
7 years, 11 months ago

Let the market determine urbanization

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. It's true that China’s first-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai have absorbed more public resources than smaller or lower-tier cities. Therefore, I don’t support the claim that governments should relocate public resources, or give higher priority to lower-tier and smaller cities to correct …

China to create over 50 mln new urban jobs by 2020
8 years, 1 month ago

China to create over 50 mln new urban jobs by 2020

China Daily  

BEIJING - China will create over 50 million new urban jobs by 2020, the State Council announced Monday. The government will improve employment structure and quality, and keep the urban headline unemployment rate under 5 percent by 2020, according to the employment facilitation plan for the 2016-2020 period released by the State Council. As China successfully withstood challenges in curbing …

Successful urbanization not just homebuying
8 years, 2 months ago

Successful urbanization not just homebuying

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. China Youth Daily commented on Thursday: The trend of rural residents buying homes in small cities is supposed to be a win-win outcome. As they struggle to reduce the property glut, the local governments provide favorable policies for purchasing the newly built houses, …

Major centers look for ways to cure 'big city disease'[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
8 years, 3 months ago

Major centers look for ways to cure 'big city disease'[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

An overpass in Shanghai during the evening rush hour. The growing number of cars on China's roads is a major cause of air pollution in many cities.Zhang Guangyao / For Chinadaily Unbalanced urban and rural development is driving up the populations of China's largest cities and resulting in a lack of basic amenities and social services. This week's pollution red …

China makes progress on annual urbanization goals
8 years, 7 months ago

China makes progress on annual urbanization goals

China Daily  

New buildings in Huaxian county, Henan province. Wang Zirui / For China Daily BEIJING - China has made significant progress in shanty-town renovation and building affordable housing and public transportation, an official said Tuesday. By the end of June, the country had met 66.9 percent of its annual shanty-town renovation target, 8.2 percentage points higher than the same period last …

China to help more rural migrants settle in cities
8 years, 11 months ago

China to help more rural migrants settle in cities

China Daily  

BEIJING - China will ease household relocation policies in 2016 to help more migrants settle in cities, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission said Tuesday. To achieve the urbanization goal, around 100 million migrants need be granted with urban household registration, said Xu Lin, an official with the NDRC, at a press conference. Currently about 39.9 percent …

Half of farmers not interested in migrating to urban areas
8 years, 11 months ago

Half of farmers not interested in migrating to urban areas

China Daily  

Migrant workers Zhang Yaozong and his wife play with their son at their home in Zhangzhuang village, Hebei province, March 29, 2016. Fifty percent of farmers responding to a survey said they have no plans to move to towns and settle down in urban areas, reported 21cn.com on Thursday. The report said if the migrants go back to rural areas …

Immigrant numbers rise in cities
9 years ago

Immigrant numbers rise in cities

China Daily  

Business opportunities, better living conditions are seen as key attractions on Chinese mainland Foreigners take part in an activity to celebrate the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival in Shanghai, Feb 20, 2016. Major cities on the Chinese mainland are attracting a growing number of immigrants from around the world, although the rate is still very low compared with major international metropolises …

China outlines roadmap to build better cities
9 years, 1 month ago

China outlines roadmap to build better cities

China Daily  

BEIJING -- Chinese central authorities on Sunday issued guidelines on urban development, two months after leaders met for the Central Urban Work Conference and promised to make China's sprawling cities more livable and green. The document, from the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, set the basic principles, key tasks and targets for future urban development …

China outlines roadmap to build better cities
9 years, 1 month ago

China outlines roadmap to build better cities

China Daily  

BEIJING -- Chinese central authorities on Sunday issued guidelines on urban development, two months after leaders met for the Central Urban Work Conference and promised to make China's sprawling cities more livable and green. The document, from the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, set the basic principles, key tasks and targets for future urban development …

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official
9 years, 3 months ago

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official

China Daily  

BEIJING - China plans to turn 100 million farmers into registered urban residents with the hope that this will encourage them to buy city apartments and help alleviate the country's massive housing glut, an official said on Tuesday. The plan will be implemented starting next year, said Xu Shaoshi, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top …

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official
9 years, 3 months ago

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official

China Daily  

BEIJING - China plans to turn 100 million farmers into registered urban residents with the hope that this will encourage them to buy city apartments and help alleviate the country's massive housing glut, an official said on Tuesday. The plan will be implemented starting next year, said Xu Shaoshi, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top …

Reasonable economomic growth rate targeted[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
9 years, 3 months ago

Reasonable economomic growth rate targeted[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

A stevedore works at Qingdao port in Shandong province, July 1, 2015. Chinese leaders, meeting ahead of two agenda-setting conferences, pledged on Monday to keep the country's economic growth rate within a "reasonable range" next year. At a meeting of the Politburo chaired by President Xi Jinping, leaders agreed that China has met major economic growth targets this year and …

Reasonable economomic growth rate targeted[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
9 years, 3 months ago

Reasonable economomic growth rate targeted[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

A stevedore works at Qingdao port in Shandong province, July 1, 2015. Chinese leaders, meeting ahead of two agenda-setting conferences, pledged on Monday to keep the country's economic growth rate within a "reasonable range" next year. At a meeting of the Politburo chaired by President Xi Jinping, leaders agreed that China has met major economic growth targets this year and …

Hukou reform lags in urbanization drive
9 years, 3 months ago

Hukou reform lags in urbanization drive

China Daily  

Urbanization, in the proposal for China's 13th Five-Year Plan, is treated as a strategy that will spur the development of industries. If things go as economist Hu Angang expects, about 70 percent of the Chinese population will be in cities by 2030, energizing many service industries and overall national economic growth. Under the national urbanization program adopted in 2014, about …

To Promote Local Urbanization in a Scientific and Orderly Manner (No 103, 2015)
9 years, 7 months ago

To Promote Local Urbanization in a Scientific and Orderly Manner (No 103, 2015)

China Daily  

To Promote Local Urbanization in a Scientific and Orderly Manner 2015-08-17 By Zhuo Xian, Research Team on "An Outlook of China's Economic Growth in the Next Ten Years" of DRC Research Report No 103, 2015 Abstract: The urbanization rate in China is still experiencing a rapid growth, but the growth rate has dropped to the lowest level in the past …

Urbanization to boost spending
9 years, 10 months ago

Urbanization to boost spending

China Daily  

New buildings in Huaxian county, Henan province. Growth of cities can address the nation's economic challenges, NDRC official says A new wave of urbanization could spark the consumption and investment needed to address China's complex economic situation, the nation's top economic planner said on Wednesday. This year, the government aims to move about 10 million agricultural workers and other rural …

Report urges localized urbanization for China's underdeveloped regions
9 years, 11 months ago

Report urges localized urbanization for China's underdeveloped regions

China Daily  

BEIJING - A report released Wednesday highlighted that concentrated underdeveloped regions in China must follow an urbanization path that is based on local sustainable resources. The report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is titled "The Development Report of China Contiguous Destitute Areas 2014-2015". "The malign cycle of 'poverty, population growth and environmental deterioration' must be broken, which means …

Protection of rural residents' rights in urbanization urged
10 years, 6 months ago

Protection of rural residents' rights in urbanization urged

China Daily  

ST. PETERSBURG - Guaranteeing the rights of rural residents is the most important issue in the urbanization process, a renowned Chinese economist said Monday. Rights come first, settling household registration differences comes second, and then erasing differences between residence permits should follow, Li Yining suggested at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. Li gave a lecture on …

China eyes higher labor quality to spur growth
10 years, 7 months ago

China eyes higher labor quality to spur growth

China Daily  

BEIJING - Government's decision to provide more vocational trainings to migrant workers will not only increase their incomes, but also nurture a high quality work force that is vital to China's economic upgrading, analysts said. A State Council executive meeting held on Wednesday said services for migrant workers will be improved, including more training courses covering job skills. Yang Zhiming, …

China's new urbanization to contribute to world[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
10 years, 8 months ago

China's new urbanization to contribute to world[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

UNITED NATIONS - A Chinese envoy said on Tuesday that the ongoing urbanization process in China, which he called "new urbanization," will not only benefit from but also contribute to the whole world. "It both benefits from and contributes to growth opportunities in the world," he said, adding that the unfolding of China's new urbanization will add greatly to its …

Time to deepen hukou reform
10 years, 8 months ago

Time to deepen hukou reform

China Daily  

Making city governments richer and supervising their use of public funds to ensure they serve the people wisely can prompt them to open the door to embrace more new residents, says an article of the 21st Century Business Herald. But better pay, good infrastructure and a concentration of good schools and hospitals in big cities attract hundreds of millions of …

Time to deepen hukou reform
10 years, 8 months ago

Time to deepen hukou reform

China Daily  

Making city governments richer and supervising their use of public funds to ensure they serve the people wisely can prompt them to open the door to embrace more new residents, says an article of the 21st Century Business Herald. But better pay, good infrastructure and a concentration of good schools and hospitals in big cities attract hundreds of millions of …

Time to attract skilled immigrants to China
10 years, 9 months ago

Time to attract skilled immigrants to China

China Daily  

It is very difficult for foreigners to apply for the right of permanent residency in China, let alone Chinese citizenship. Excerpts: From 2004, when China started implementing its permanent residency right application system, to the end of 2011, the Chinese government has issued about 4,700 green cards to foreigners. Given the shortage of skilled labor in China, the government needs …

How urbanization can help the poor[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
10 years, 11 months ago

How urbanization can help the poor[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

Over the past three decades and a half, China's urban population has risen from less than one-fifth of the total to more than half, which means about 500 million people have been added to the urban population. By 2030, up to 70 percent of China's population is likely to live in cities - that is, one in every six urbanites …

Top policy changes[4]- Chinadaily.com.cn
11 years ago

Top policy changes[4]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

It is no exaggeration thatChina’s urbanization process will become a driving force for changingChina’s social and economic landscape in the coming decades and have a significant bearing on the global economy. Meanwhile, in building or expanding cities, environmental and energy use issues must be on top of the local agenda to make the process sustainable. Only by achieving these tasks …

Major cities losing their allure for new graduates
11 years, 2 months ago

Major cities losing their allure for new graduates

China Daily  

After much consideration, Ying Hanlu decided against finding work in Beijing and Shanghai and instead returned home after graduating in the summer. Although 35 percent of the 4,000 employees polled choose to stay in one of the major cities, 53 percent said they had considered relocating to second or third-tier cities, up 16 percent year-on-year. "As the central government is …

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