Reality of Urbanization Catching up to the Dream
China’s ambitious urbanization plan is getting results: the country now has 102 cities...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 21, 2017
China’s ambitious urbanization plan is getting results: the country now has 102 cities...
by radish | Nov 10, 2014
The ongoing APEC summit is the biggest showcase for the city of Beijing, even the whole of China,...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 26, 2013
Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report covers a recently released report from a CLSA...
by Natalie Ornell | Aug 10, 2013
Government efforts to urbanize China's population by building new towns are failing due to a lack of local jobs; one of the many newly constructed towns, Tieling, remains empty because residents cannot find employment: Urban...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 9, 2013
Ordos city, a development project in Inner Mongolia that was designed to attract one million residents, has frequently been derided as a failure and a “ghost town,” with up to 90% of its construction projects empty....
by Samuel Wade | Jan 18, 2013
At China Real Time Report, Tom Orlik discusses urbanization, hukou reform, land ownership, urban sustainability and the price of heroin in Chongqing with Tom Miller, author of China’s Urban Billion. We’re hearing a lot...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 4, 2012
China seems to have taken a symptom of their real-estate bubble with them in their continued investment in Africa. Over the last three years, state-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation (中国中信集团公司) has built...