For most counties, domestic migration dominates population growth, and understanding the spatial structure of domestic netflows (and their distribution within a city) is crucial to the comprehension of the mechanisms behind the heterogeneity of city population growth....
The development of Chinese ancient cities was a long historical process.The residents' structure of the cities changed constantly with their development.Originally, the cities were defensive fortresses of military, and most of the residents were peasants.Along with the development of the economy, the...
China,North China and South China.It also explored the quantitive relationship between the population size of a certain city i(Pi) and other factors including the population size of the nearest city n(Pn) and the distance between i and n(Din),the population size of the primary city s(Ps)...
Based on three reasonable assumptions, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the optimum size in a particular city, which is affected directly by commuting costs, preference degree for environmental quality, as well as industrial structure. Using China's population census and urban yearbook data...
With the transformation of China’s industry and demographic structure, urban shrinkage, especially the resource-based cities due to their single industrial structure, tend to emerge gradually. Using empirical and quantitative methods, this paper explore
To alleviate these problems, China started to pilot construction of the “Sponge City” (SPC). Over a decade, it has attracted public attention, supports, and participations. The paper presents a literature review of sponge city construction (SPCC) process (planning, design and construction) as ...
It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical governance structure, a city status can only be ...
Smart city construction represents an advanced stage of China's urbanisation process and plays an important role in promoting green economic growth and sustainable development. Propensity score matching is combined with the difference-in-difference method to analyse the data of 221 prefecture-level citie...
On view the problem from a angle of China economy effecting area economy,this article sum up region show of industry and city-countryside structure within China and foreign countryies in transfering,stress the gathering effect of focus from industrialization and ubanization of Henan provice in the...
Chengdu, the mega-city with a population exceeding 21 million, serves as the economic hub and transportation nexus of western China. Simultaneously, as a historical and cultural city with a history of over 2,300 years, Chengdu has always ma...