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The mainland’s 900 million farmers will be on the lookout for rural land use reforms after a signal from the finance minister that change could be in the wind.
But the complexity of the issue meant any changes would not be direct or fast in coming, analysts said.
In an article published in…
The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights and our partner Resource Equity are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for our Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program.
Through this program we seek to cultivate a network of qualified professionals from the…
By: Wade Shepard
Date: January 27th 2016
Source: CityMetric
A single house stood alone like an isolated island of Old China amid a flowing sea of rubble. The surrounding community of traditional style, single story brick houses had already been demolished, effectively erased from the slate of…
Date: February 6th 2016
Source: ShanghaiDaily.com
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's cabinet on Saturday urged local governments to register migrant workers as urbanites and encourage farmers to buy homes in cities.
With the exception of a few megacities, rural migrants should be allowed to…
By: Ming Lu
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Nikkei Asian Review
Chinese leaders have announced plans to reform the country's household registration, or hukou, system to transform domestic migrant workers into local citizens of the cities where they work and live. Such a policy change would mark…
By: Faraz Haleem
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: China Business News
The Chinese central authority issued guidelines for urban development and management
The Chinese government has ramped up efforts to counter socioeconomic challenges, with an aim to sustain economic and social environment in the…
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Shanghai Daily / Xinhua
CHINA’S leaders have called for more to be done to facilitate “new-type urbanization,” saying fresh achievements must be made in the area this year.
In an instruction, President Xi Jinping asked authorities to uphold the concepts of…
By: Qiao Long
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Radio Free Asia
Traditional herding communities in a county-level district in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia have stepped up protests over the loss of their grasslands this week, local sources said.
Ethnic Mongolian herders gathered in…
Date: 13 mars 2016
Source: L'Info.RE
La Chine construit un pont écologique. Le plus grand pollueur de la planète a décidé de préserver la forêt environnante.
Le pont, d’une longueur totale de quatre kilomètre a été construit l’année dernière, rapporte le site gentside.com. Il se trouve dans…
By: Wade Shepard
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Forbes
Last year, I was giving a talk about China’s urbanization drive and new city building movement at a literary festival in Suzhou when a member of the audience asked a very astute question:
“What is China going to do with these cities once…
By: Ming Tian
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CCTV
How can China deal with this real estate glut - that 720 million square meters of unsold housing? Political advisors say urbanization may be the way.
Real estate developers are feeling the heat, especially in less developed areas of China.
Large…
By: Wu Guoxiu
Date: April 20th 2016
Source: CCTV.com
China's urbanization level has reached 56.1 percent, that's according to the first official urbanization report book compiled by the National Development and Reform Commission. The country also plans for more small and medium sized cities…