Job seekers from the countryside have made a national test case for urbanization out of Chongqing, often compared to the 19th-century Chicago that Mark Twain found always to be “contriving and ...

Urbanization in China on an unprecedented scale June 19, 2008 - While China’s urbanization began almost 4,000 years ago—in fact, Neolithic villages had begun to appear in river valleys a thousand ...

China’s “birth-friendly society” vision entails bringing down costs of parenting and education, lengthening parental leave, upgrading maternity and pediatric care and boosting child ...

Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable UrbanizationThe joint report by the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council, Urban China: Toward Efficient, ...

BEIJING - China has added more than 12 million new urban jobs each year since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period ...

NEWS China’s Most Crowded School Has 113 Children Per Classroom Closures of village schools have concentrated students in county seats, where faculty and facilities aren’t always sufficient.

To determine the most crowded cities in the world, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed population and land area estimates for the city proper using data from the United Nations’ Demographic Yearbook.

By 2020, China aims to move 100 million of those people from rural areas into cities — a goal the government unveiled in 2013 in its 23-year plan for urbanization.

A tiny pocket city built from scratch next to a crowded urban center could alleviate some of China’s crowding and pollution problems. A Chicago-based architectural firm designed a master plan ...