A Study of China's Urban-Rural Integration Development (eBook)

China's urbanization has stunned the world in the past two decades- but as the authors of this book explain, the growth is only set to continue. The divide between urban and rural citizens in China implicates every aspect of Chinese life, from education to pollution to healthcare. In this book, one of China's most celebrated academic urbanists and a major urban planner collaborate in laying out and analyzing the problems of China's urban-rural divide, experiences of urbanization, and what the future holds. This book is a must read, not only for the accurate summaries of China's developmental experience it includes, but also for the insights it provides into the mentalities of the government officials and private developers who are creating realities on the ground in Chinese cities.

Dangguo Ying, PhD in Economics, is a researcher of Rural Development Institute Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Lead Researcher of the Team of Rural Public Service Innovation, and also a doctoral supervisor. He was awarded the State Council Special Allowance and also won the prize of China Rural Development Research Award in 2014. He has not only published a number of monographs and papers, and run plenty of economic review. 

Wenyuan Wu, is General Manager and Lead Plnner of Shenzhen Apecland Design Co., Ltd, conventor of the China Low Impact Development Research and Action Group, and also an invited lecturer and postgraduate supervisor of School of Landscape Architecture in Peking University. Honoured as Chinese Urbanization Contribution Figure, She has conducted a number of landscape design, tourist complex design, urban design, and has accumulated rich experience in project total process management of landscape. 

 

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China's urbanization has stunned the world in the past two decades- but as the authors of this book explain, the growth is only set to continue. The divide between urban and rural citizens in China implicates every aspect of Chinese life, from education to pollution to healthcare. In this book, one of China's most celebrated academic urbanists and a major urban planner collaborate in laying out and analyzing the problems of China's urban-rural divide, experiences of urbanization, and what the future holds. This book is a must read, not only for the accurate summaries of China's developmental experience it includes, but also for the insights it provides into the mentalities of the government officials and private developers who are creating realities on the ground in Chinese cities.