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China’s rapid growth over the last three decades has attracted much academic attention. In the post-reform era, economic growth has been paralleled by rapid urbanization. China’s urbanization experience has been shaped heavily by the state through national urban policies as well as through local administrative means. Much has been written about large Chinese cities in the more developed coastal regions,...
This paper serves as an introduction to the first part of this special issue of Habitat International on Urbanization in China. It discusses the context of globalization, and then tries to place Chinese cities within this context. Chinese cities are currently being forced into the age of globalization by many forces, such as entry into World Trade Organization and the expansion of the market economy...
At the heart of China’s economic transformation from plan to market is the institutional rearrangement of the ownership of property rights. Privatization of collectively owned township and village enterprises (TVEs) in recent years has significantly changed the rural economy and affected small town development in China. Located mainly in villages and small towns and producing 62% of the total industrial...
China has significantly restructured its urban administrative/spatial system since the 1978 economic reforms to empower central cities to play a leading role in driving national and regional economic development. Through changes in the scale relations that are heavily conditioned by the administrative levels or ranks (dengji) of cities and counties, central cities have in fact been transformed into...
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