On the eve of the Beijing Paralympic Games, CDT presents the full-text translation of this article by Xie Renci for the health news site DXY.com. Originally published on International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the...
In July, central authorities gave the green light to Uber-like online ride-sharing services as...
On Wednesday, the Chinese government announced plans to reform the country’s...
Chris Buckley at The New York Times reports the announcement of new changes to China’s hukou...
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
China’s leadership has put much energy into renewed urbanization efforts that will have 60...
Along with plans to redevelop shantytowns as part of the national effort to place more than 60...
Since coming to power, China’s new leadership has been touting the benefits that increased...
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
Amid a broad push for urbanization in China, Andrew Stokols explains how urban population figures...
As China continues to urbanize, policymakers are planning to build more subways in cities to...
South China Morning Post’s Tom Holland suggests that Beijing’s faith in urbanization as an economic engine may be misplaced: Urbanisation is not just the centrepiece of new Premier Li Keqiang’s economic...
As Beijing plans to move hundreds of millions into China’s cities, Tom Phillips reports from Lanzhou New Area, a new city under construction in Gansu province for which 700 mountains were condemned to be flattened: Its...
As the China expat twittersphere convulsed in response to Tudou co-founder Marc van der Chijs’ explanation of ‘Why I’m leaving China’, Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz described middle-class Chinese...
In China, where government officials often have the final say on city projects, urban planners are using Weibo to make their voices heard by the public. From Abby at Global Voices: According to Southern Weekly [zh], there are...
Late last month, premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang declared that boosting the country’s urban population, which passed 50% of the total a year ago, was China’s most promising avenue for further development. From Caijing:...
Bloomberg reporter Kelvin Wong sheds light on real estate prices in China’s first-tier cities by comparing major cities’ office space prices. Business districts in Beijing and Guangzhou had the biggest increases in...
The State Council recently ratified a five-year plan to address the sinking ground levels of over 79,000 square kilometres and more than 50 cities in China, which potentially threaten the stability of everything from high-rise...
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