SHANGHAI URBANISATION
• Urbanisation and urban development have been on the rise in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution. This time, with the relaxing of the strict rules regarding population mobility, saw the increased opportunity for Chinese people to move, and work and live, almost anywhere in the country that they desired.
• As a result China has experienced a rise in the trend of rural-to-urban migration. The rate of this trend has accelerated over the last thirty years with the growing income disparity between urban and rural areas being a key contributor to this pattern of population movement. With such massive amounts of people flocking to the hundreds of cities and thousands of towns across China this is creating increasing pressure for urban development and urban renewal in these areas.
• The Chinese government is struggling to meet all of the demands on it in this area and so is actively seeking additional and alternative means of adequately providing for urban dwellers.
• As a result China has experienced a rise in the trend of rural-to-urban migration. The rate of this trend has accelerated over the last thirty years with the growing income disparity between urban and rural areas being a key contributor to this pattern of population movement. With such massive amounts of people flocking to the hundreds of cities and thousands of towns across China this is creating increasing pressure for urban development and urban renewal in these areas.
• The Chinese government is struggling to meet all of the demands on it in this area and so is actively seeking additional and alternative means of adequately providing for urban dwellers.