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China's Cities Facing Massive Migration from Rural Areas
Although at the projected 0.6 percent growth rate, China's population of nearly 1.3 billion in 2003 may be increasing by just 7.8 to 8.4 million annually, its urban segment will be growing by 15 million to 20 million a year over the next 10 years, with Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lincoln Institute of Land Policy President Gregory K. Ingram, co-chair of the International Studies department, saying, ''The growth has huge implications for urban areas, land policy and the environment, while the massive migration from rural areas will have important consequences in those communities as well.''
To increase American and international awareness of China's challenges in its ''transition to a socialist market economy'' and the wider repercussions, the institute has now published a 320-page book, ''Urbanization in China: Critical Issues in an Era of Rapid Growth,'' edited by Yan Song, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Chengri Ding, University of Maryland, College Park.
The book reflects the proceedings of the institute's May 2006 conference on ''urban strategies and instruments'' to promote ''economically sound, environmentally desirable, politically feasible, and socially acceptable'' growth in China.
Having started five years ago, the institute will continue its research and other involvement to facilitate these prospects under its Program in the People's Republic of China, with program director Joyce Man of Indiana University now based in Beijing. -- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 10/20/2007
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