Translations: Chinese Cities’ Ride-sharing Rules
In July, central authorities gave the green light to Uber-like online ride-sharing services as...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 13, 2016
In July, central authorities gave the green light to Uber-like online ride-sharing services as...
by Cindy | Aug 1, 2014
On Wednesday, the Chinese government announced plans to reform the country’s...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 31, 2014
Chris Buckley at The New York Times reports the announcement of new changes to China’s hukou...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 16, 2014
In a special report at The Economist, James Miles examines urbanization in China, described by...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 26, 2014
China’s leadership has put much energy into renewed urbanization efforts that will have 60...
by Cindy | Mar 21, 2014
Along with plans to redevelop shantytowns as part of the national effort to place more than 60...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 17, 2013
Since coming to power, China’s new leadership has been touting the benefits that increased...
by Natalie Ornell | Nov 24, 2013
The New York Times’ Edward Wong reports that rural areas of China have become prime...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 22, 2013
Amid a broad push for urbanization in China, Andrew Stokols explains how urban population figures...
by Cindy | Nov 12, 2013
As China continues to urbanize, policymakers are planning to build more subways in cities to...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 4, 2013
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...
by Cindy | Jun 17, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 29, 2013
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...
by 不忘初心 | Dec 18, 2012
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...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 7, 2012
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:...
by Wendy Qian | Jul 16, 2012
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...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 12, 2012
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...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 2, 2011
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:...