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Tuesday, January 29, 2002, updated at 13:35(GMT+8)

China's Urbanization
Urbanization Narrows Gap Between Farmers, Urbanites

Zhejiang Province, an economic powerhouse along China's east coast, has narrowed the gap between farmers and city dwellers in its urbanization process.
Some 10 million farmers in east China's Zhejiang Province have left behind the life style of their forefathers and started urban life in boomtowns that have prospered in tandem with the rapid development of township enterprises.


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Urbanization Narrows Gap Between Farmers, Urbanites
Zhejiang Province, an economic powerhouse along China's east coast, has narrowed the gap between farmers and city dwellers in its urbanization process.
Some 10 million farmers in east China's Zhejiang Province have left behind the life style of their forefathers and started urban life in boomtowns that have prospered in tandem with the rapid development of township enterprises.
 


Roundup: Urbanization Arrives in Tibet
Urbanization has been accelerating in China's Tibet Autonomous Region, a formerly agriculture and animal husbandry dominating region.
 


Rural Surplus Labour Destined for Towns to Aid Urbanization
Senior agriculture and rural development researchers suggest local governments should make more of an effort to channel surplus rural labour into small towns.
 


Reform of Household Register Is Imperative: Interview
Accelerating the process of the reform of the household register management system helps promote the shift of surplus rural labor power; increase the consumption demand for agricultural products and manufactured industrial goods, stimulate infrastructure construction and the development of real estate industry; promote the raise of China's urbanization level and speed up the pace of the strategic readjustment of the national economy.
 


"China Should Accelerate Sustainable Urban Development"
China's urbanization has been rapid over the past 20 years, and it is now time to speed up sustainable urban development, according to an expert at an environmental meeting on Wednesday.
 


Model Solution Sought to Future Urban Sprawl
Experts have called on China to choose a suitable model to ensure urbanization in the country is achieved properly, citing the rapid expansion of cities as the key issue in its future, according to today's China Daily.
 


China Speeds up Healthy Urbanization
As much as 92 percent of Chinese urban families should use cleaner natural gas, in stead of polluting coal, for fuel by 2005, according to the State Development Planning Commission (SDPC).
 


China Sets Targets for Urbanization
The Chinese government made public Tuesday a plan to boost the country's urbanization process in the next five years.
 


China Opens First Website on Urbanization
China Urbanization Website, the first urbanization-oriented website in China, opened Wednesday in Hangzhou, the capital of east China��s Zhejiang Province.
 


China's Urbanization Rate Reaches 36 Percent: Minister
China's urbanization rate has grown to 36.09 percent in its effort to set up an integrated and rational urban system with the emphasis on the development of small cities and towns, Construction Minister Yu Zhengsheng said Wednesday.
 


China's Rural Residents Survive Urbanization Wave
Tourists that have been to Sanya, China's southernmost city, on Hainan Island in the past, would be surprised to see many more small restaurants, shops and hotels booming along the beach-front than there were a few years ago.
 


China's Urbanization Rate to Reach 60% in 20 Years
China's urbanization rate would reach around 60 percent in 20 years, said Li Shantong, director of the Development Strategy and Regional Economy Research Department of the State Council Development and Research Center, taking stock of the country's population and economic growth in two decades in the future.
 


Tibet Speeding up Urbanization
The Tibet Autonomous Region has recorded marked progress in urbanization over the past five years, statistics show.
 


Developing Secondary and Tertiary Industries, Promoting Rural Urbanization
Developing secondary and tertiary industries, promoting rural urbanization and gradually transferring surplus agricultural labor force are the objective needs for making full use of abundant rural labor resources and increasing farmers' income through various channels.
 






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