Governing urbanization and the New Urbanization Plan in China

What is it about?

This paper is about the different forms of migration caused by urbanisation in China and the corresponding social issues. It helps to explain why with the good achievement in delivering the Millennium Goals, social tension remains to be strong in urban China. Migration resulted from urbanisation, either voluntarily or involuntary has resulted in strong social anxiety and disrupted social cohesion. The New Urbanisation Plan is partially intended to solve some of the problems, however it also creates new problems.

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Why is it important?

The Chinese government is actively pursuing urbanisation as a strategy to boost economic growth and enhance rural-urban integration. This means huge amount of resources will be poured into activities that are associated with urbanisation and local governments need to respond to the challenges. The on-going urbanisation in developing countries is probably the largest in human history. China has contributed a large share of it. As China has maintained a long period of fast growth, many developing countries aspire to achieve the same level of success if not necessarily the same sort. Learning the experience of China and the challenges it face at each stage of the urbanisation process may also help other countries to take on the good practices and prevent from repeating some of the poor pactices