China’s urbanization rate has reached 45.68%
Reporter August 23 urban and rural areas from the Housing Ministry was informed that, by the end of 2008, China’s urban population of 607 million people, urbanization level is 45.68%, compared with the liberation of the initial increase of 35 percent average annual increase of 0.95 percentage points.
According to Ministry of Urban and Rural Planning Department of Urban and Rural Housing, Deputy Director Zhang Qin, at present, China has initially formed a big city as the center, medium and small cities as the backbone of small cities and towns based on multi-layered medium and small cities and small cities and towns the coordinated development of of the urban system. A closer link between the towns, urban built-up areas gradually formed. At the same time, municipal utility facilities, service capabilities and supply capacity increased, gradually expand the scale of investment, urban and rural planning continuous improvement and strengthening, in the urbanization and urban development has played a guiding role.
Qin said that China is a populous developing country, arable land, freshwater, energy, and a relative shortage of important mineral resources and ecological environment is fragile, low quality labor force, and various conflicts are intertwined. In the future, changes in urban development mode, and take a resource-saving, environment-friendly, intensive and compact urbanization, is another country in a number of constraints under the condition of the inevitable choice.
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