URBAN FRONTIER
The author is a professor at the Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization, Tsinghua University
China’s extraordinary economic boom has gone hand-in-hand with its urbanization since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. However, rapid urbanization has also created many problems. Since 2013, the country’s urbanization rate has exceeded the world average, which has pushed it to build a new type of urbanization, involving the largest process in human history encompassing the largest population.
