From The People’s Daily Online:
China’s urban population is expected to reach 560 million by the end of this year, up 7 percent from the figure five years ago, China Daily reports Saturday.
About 43 percent of China’s population will be living in urban areas, the paper quoted Zheng Xinli, deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, as saying.
During the 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) period, the average urbanization growth rate was 1.4 percent annually, Zheng said at a forum on the sustainable development of small and medium-sized cities in China.
