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This chapter will first review the process of China’s urban development in the period 1978–2010, followed by a discussion of the new pattern of the global economy since 2000. It will conclude with a projection of the likely new trends in China’s urbanization, based on a comparison with those of the pre-2000 period.
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The data on Taiwan is not available in the World Bank Data, although it is included in the world aggregate figures.
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Dai, L. (2018). The New Global Economy and the New Direction of China’s Urbanization. In: Ye, L. (eds) Urbanization and Urban Governance in China. Governing China in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57824-2_4
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