Making rural China urban

Article by Mi Shih is a postdoctoral research fellow in the China Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney. (...) ‘Unprecedented’ is the word commonly used to describe China’s urbanisation 都 市化. Yet the country remains less urbanised than most developed countries. What makes China’s urbanisation process remarkable and, indeed, unprecedented is its magnitude and speed. Today, fifty-one percent of the Chinese population live in cities as compared to the nineteen percent that did ..