From China Daily:
Urbanization is speeding up throughout China, with half the 1.3 billion Chinese or one tenth of the world’s population expected to live in cities in 2010.
Every year, about 13 million rural people flood into China’s cities, equivalent to the current population of Beijing, Vice-Minister of Construction Qiu Baoxing told the Fudan University International Urban Forum over the weekend.
To accommodate this new urban population, the country needs a huge amount of resources, currently accounting for 40 per cent of the world’s total annual cement consumption and 30 per cent of the annual steel consumption. [Full Text]
– Also People’s Daily Online’s China’s urbanization process in full-scale acceleration
– And Cautions on China’s Urbanization by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
