Translations: Chinese Cities’ Ride-sharing Rules
In July, central authorities gave the green light to Uber-like online ride-sharing services as...
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Unifying the Hukou System Is Just a Start
On Wednesday, the Chinese government announced plans to reform the country’s...
Hukou Reforms Aim to Smooth Urbanization
Chris Buckley at The New York Times reports the announcement of new changes to China’s hukou...
Urbanization: Where China’s Future Will Happen
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
Can China’s Ambitious New Urbanization Plan Succeed?
China’s leadership has put much energy into renewed urbanization efforts that will have 60...
New “People-Centred” Plan for Urbanisation
Along with plans to redevelop shantytowns as part of the national effort to place more than 60...
New Urbanization Plan Faces Hurdles
Since coming to power, China’s new leadership has been touting the benefits that increased...
Urbanites Find Refuge in China’s Countryside
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
Sizing Up China’s Cities
Amid a broad push for urbanization in China, Andrew Stokols explains how urban population figures...
China’s Building Push Goes Underground
As China continues to urbanize, policymakers are planning to build more subways in cities to...
Are Beijing’s Expectations for Urbanization Realistic?
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...
From Sand to Skyscrapers: Inside China’s Newest City
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...
Urban Refugees Leave Pollution, City Life Behind
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...
Urban Planners Build Support Through Weibo
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...
700 Mountains Flattened for New Desert City
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:...
China Has Three Biggest Increases In Global Office Costs
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...
Sinking City Solution: Pump Groundwater Back?
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...
Beijing: Constant Nightmare, China's Most Liveable City, or Capital of the Future?
An ongoing series at The Economist’s More Intelligent Life site searches for a new global capital, with a particular focus on London, New York, Washington DC, Beijing, Delhi and Singapore. As noted in ‘Beijing:...
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