Satellite town development in China: problems and prospects.

This article examines the objectives, planning principles, and characteristics of satellite town development in China. It also evaluates the development of satellite towns and examines some of their problems of development. Compared with other countries, satellite towns in China may have better chances of fulfilling their development objectives. Because of state allocation of industries, they do not face the problem in attracting industries which often hinders the development of satellite towns and new towns in other countries. The major problem is to attract people to move into the satellite towns.-from Authors Englishlink_to_subscribed_fulltex