“Masters of the People”: China’s New Urban Poor
In Dissent Magazine, Jeffrey Wasserstrom interviews political scientists Dorothy Solinger and Mark...
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Beijingers Resort to Illegal Wells for Clean Water
South China Morning Post’s Li Jing reports that residents in parts of Beijing have drilled...
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...
In New Research, A More Cynical Urban China
Patrick Boehler of the South China Morning Post reports that new research by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences showed that conservatives outnumber liberals in Chinese cities: Some 38.1 per cent of those surveyed held more...
Inequality, Unemployment Higher Than Expected
A new survey suggests that China’s Gini coefficient—a measure of inequality—is far higher than either other recent estimates or the 0.4 mark often said to represent potentially destabilising inequality. China has not...
Big Questions About China's Urban Legend
While the last thirty years has seen China’s urban population grow from one fifth to a half of the total, this figure masks the 15% who, though living in cities, lack urban residence permits. At The Wall Street Journal,...
Beijing Manages its Population, Above Ground and Below
Beijing authorities have announced a variety of measures for managing the city’s expanding population, in accordance with the 12th Five-Year Plan. In addition to limiting the influx of migrants which has driven the...
China’s urban population to reach 560 million: official
From The People’s Daily Online: China’s urban population is expected to reach 560 million by the end of this year, up 7 percent from the figure five years ago, China Daily reports Saturday. About 43 percent of China’s population will be living in urban areas, the paper quoted Zheng Xinli, deputy director of the Policy […]
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