Journal
CITIES
Volume 78, Issue -, Pages 180-193Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2018.02.012
Keywords
New-type urbanization plan; Implementation; Policy; Progress; Assessment; China
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41671125, 41571138, 41430136]
- National Key Research and Development Program [2016YFC0503506]
- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS [QYZDY-SSW-SYS002]
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The demand to measure the progress of China's new-type urbanization construction appears to be increasing due to its profound impact on both China and global sustainable urbanization. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the progress since the issuance of the National New-type Urbanization Plan (NUP) in March 2014, and it is unclear how to assess the comprehensive new-type urbanization construction, which has multiple dimensions and various themes. To close this gap, a new three-stage framework is proposed. This article outlines and classifies the up-to-date policies and actions since the release of the NUP and provides a preliminary assessment of China's new-type urbanization construction from the aspects of population urbanization, land urbanization, economic urbanization and comprehensiveness. The results show that China unfolded a very comprehensive top-down campaign of new-type urbanization construction. The strict urban-rural dual household registration system has started to be changed into a residence permit system. However, the implementation of the NUP is also facing many challenges. The most important thing is that the bottom-up factors should be more emphasized and combined with top-down factors in future plan implementations. This is to say, peasant-workers will need to be taken into proper consideration. People-oriented new-type urbanization should position peasant-workers at the center. Also, China's transformation of new-type urbanization is comprehensive, complex, dynamic, and long term. It should not be expected that this transformation will be completed during the short six-year planning period.
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