Abstract
China has made great achievements in urban development. Some of China’s larger cities are already world-class in terms of infrastructure. Nonetheless, China’s pattern of urban development has overlooked management and quality, causing a series of problems including the loss of urban features, poor management, the emergence of shanty towns and the unreasonably rapid expansion of very large and ultra-large cities. At the Central Urbanization Work Conference in 2013, the Chinese government announced that one of the main tasks for future urbanization would be improving the quality of urban development. Taking reality and policy context into account, future efforts for new urbanization should focus on addressing existing problems facing urban development and management in China and taking measures to improve both aspects, thereby facilitating sustainable urban development and achieving high-quality, healthy urbanization.
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The heaviest rain and flooding in China in the past 61 years hit Beijing and its surrounding areas on July 21–22, 2012 at around 8:00 am, causing a death toll of 79 people, 10,660 collapsed houses, 1,602,000 victims and a financial loss of 11.64 billion yuan.
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Aside from the aforementioned problems with the transport system, urban managers who wish to achieve absolute control over urban water services must take into account that the urban water service system actually interacts with the urban infrastructure system, river/lake ecosystems, public utility system and even underground pipes for power supply. Communications cables and heating pipes area also laid in parallel with water supply/drainage pipes as well as with the roads above them.
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By the end of 2008, there were 11.48 million households living in shanty towns across China, including 7.44 million households in cities (64.80%), 2.38 million households in state-owned factories and mines (20.73%) and 1.66 million households in forestation/farming zones (14.46%); of these, 6.81 million households were low-income and could not afford housing and 4.67 million households were lower-middle-income and could not afford housing, according to a survey. There remain about 12 million households living in shanty towns due to adjustments to China’s shanty towns standards. The percentages of various shanty towns remain stable.
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Wei, H. (2019). Recommendations for Comprehensive Improvements in Urban Development and Management. In: Urbanization in China. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1408-7_8
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