China's urban system includes official cities (Chengshi) and towns (Zhen). While there is a large literature on Chinese cities in both Chinese and English, the importance of rural towns in China's urbanization has not been fully recognized. This chapter is based on fieldwork in Hubei ...
One major bonus for people living in small, less developed regions of China is that there is now a tourism infrastructure being built around and invested in ancient towns, allowing people to earn money as well as preserve their historical cultures. Visiting one of these ancient towns or villages...
China has been using the Hukou (household registration) system since 1958 in order to regulate social protection, maintain social stability, and regulate internal migration between rural and urban areas. The Hukou system was loosened and deregulated until the 1980s, which gave rural laborers the ch...
Here, she began to study Pakistan’s ancient towns and the vernacular architecture of earth buildings, igniting her interest in the architectural heritage and traditional techniques of her country. In 1980, she co-founded the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan with her husband, becoming instrumental in...
Party's 16th program pointed: " Adhere to the coordinated development of large and medium sized cities and small towns, and take the road of urbanization w... C Chen,G Nazi 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 Research on Dual Structure Dynamic Mechanism Model of Population Flow in The Process of Chin...
Since 2014, more than 1.4 million km of rural roads have been built or upgraded in previously poor areas, all towns, townships and administrative villages where conditions allow had been connected to paved roads by 2019, and all such villages had been connected to bus services by 2020, the ...
Migration is one of the most important economic, demographic and social phenomena in China today, involving the transfer of tens of millions of people from villages where they are employed — or underemployed — in agriculture, to cities, towns, or other rural areas, where they hope they will...
China's continuing urban transition Several factors drive this rapid urbanization and growth of cities and towns: continuing, although diminishing, population growth; migration of rural people, as regulations on rural and urban household registration change; rapid structural ... Pannell,W Clifton - ...
"Ding'an County has been encouraging towns and villages to tap cultural resources to boost rural revitalization," said Yuan Zhen, deputy director of the rural revitalization bureau of the county. In Wentouling Village of the county, a shared farm featuring the industry of fragrant herbs was foun...
Throughout the past few years, there has been a steady progression in rural China’s internet infrastructures.