Advantages Of Urbanization In China

As the modern day economy continues to grow, more and more discussion are emerging revolving around what are the factors that led to the successful economic growth in some countries and one country that has been gaining researcher’s interest is China and the development of Beijing from a third world country in the to a developed and Newly industrialized country today.

Paul Goldberger, an American architectural critic once quoted, “Urbanism works when it creates the journey as desirable as the destination.”

Shanghai has inherited geographical advantages compared to other cities in China. “shanghai is located at the T-shaped junction along the sea coast and the Changing River.” (Zou et al. 2001)

- Shanghai is a highly globalised and developing city and Chinas hub and model city.

The period from the late 19th century to the early 20th century is important in the urban development history of Canadian and American. Urbanization is a historical process that contains urban development. Urbanization is a process of population concentration as well as a process that advanced production modes substitute backward modes. At the same time, it is also the process to adapt to the mode of production and to innovate lifestyle. Hence, urbanization is a dynamic process that many aspects of economics, society and culture comprehensively transform caused by the revolution of social productive forces.

Urbanization is a concept that is deeply rooted in the increase in a population within a region in response to the availability of unique opportunities. The opportunities may include the availability of employment chances in factories, investments opportunities in the urban areas, and the presence of sufficient housing and social infrastructure. It is apparent that urbanization began centuries ago in different regions of the world. However, the development of suburban areas has also been an interesting phenomenon over the centuries. Initially, people strived to live in the luxurious houses in major towns and cities. Nevertheless, there was a gradual shift in the desire to live in the cities when various negative impacts of overpopulation

Urbanization is growing of cities due to expanded of industries, increased of immigration and population shifted from rural to urban to work in factories. Hirschman and Mogford stated that the decades surrounding 1900 were not only the age of industrialization in the United States, but were also the age of urbanization and immigration. Industrialization, immigration, and urbanization are correlated and interacted with each other. However, all these three have both advantage and disadvantage. Obviously, the three pros of urbanization are convenience, economic improvement, and cultural diversity. First at all, the example of convenience is when people in cities can easily access to health, education and social services due to more availability of facilities and public transportation. Second at all, the example of economic improvement is when there are more job opportunity, foreign exchange, and apartment, houses or codons filled with residents. Lastly, the example of cultural diversity is when

URBANIZATION LEADS TO CRIMINAL AND PRODUCE MEN AND WOMEN IGNORANT OF THE BEAUTY OF NATURE.

The first reason why I would like to live in Urban China is because of the high income and the population. The income that people can make is $4,000. The article “Rural Life in China” explained, “Average disposable annual income for Chinese

The world as we know it is experiencing an unprecedented shift for the first time witnessed in human history. It wasn’t even 100 years ago that the world was still overwhelmingly rural with global urban population rates around 10%. Fast forward to 2015, now accounting for roughly around 53% of the worlds population living in cities and is projected to rise to around 67% by 2050.1 The comparative analysis sets out to understand the opportunities and challenges among the North American megacity New York and the Asian megacity of Beijing. The metropolitan area of both New York and Beijing consist of a population each over 10 million people, which generally defines as a megacity. A “megacity” can also be coined as world city, global city, megalopolis, metropolis, conurbation, and agglomeration. Megacities such as New York and Beijing are comprised of a central core, surrounded by satellite cities within daily commuting distances, separated by greenspace. Thus, urban agglomerations can be numerous cities and towns when they are linked by the flows of people, goods, and information, as long as the aggregate population exceeds 10 million.2

From 1980 to 2010, China relied on a uniquely successful investment- and export-led development model for its 30-year miracle of double digit GDP growth. However, to make rapid industrialization possible, China directed most of its investments to the cities, financed massive urban infrastructure and development projects. In result of

This evidence shows that urbanisation contributes a lot to the public transport system in Guangdong. There have built several different kinds of public transports that can connect to many other cities. People can use these public transports equally. By using these convenient transports, people can live a high-efficiency life because less time is spent on the way. That is to say, even those people far away from Guangdong can go to Guangdong quickly and access the resources in Guangdong more easily. So people can enjoy different kinds of resources equally because of convenient transport. Secondly, urbanisation brings more goods to citizens and people can improve their life quality by using these goods. According to Li & Yao (2009, p. 1995), electrical appliances are becoming popular because of urbanisation. For example, air conditional owner-ship is rapidly growing up in China. Some families even have more than two units. From this evidence, it can be showed that urbanisation brings more modernised goods such as air conditioners to citizens. Citizens can access these useful goods more easily and they are able to live a higher standard life by using these goods. They have the same opportunities to buy these goods to improve their life quality. This means the opportunities to improve the quality of life can become equal in the society. All in all, urbanisation builds an equitable

China has vast resources like coal and fossil fuel and hydro electric potential. The problem is the development of the infrastructure. The geological position off resources and the fragmentation of the regions and the poor development of the infrastructure can hamper growth. There is a greater phase of urbanization in China now but this is lesser by the world level and there are vast regional and cultural differences within the Chinese towns that lend a distinct cultural ethos to the urbanization and functioning of organizations. (Mengkui; Bingwen, 2006, p. 112) This can be seen in the problem of transporting coal, the major source of power, and the location of the dams and other infrastructure that were created by the centralized regime. The problem is that the political system of China is unitary and the entire provinces have their decisions made by the Centre at Beijing

As Joseph E Stiglitz, who won the Nobel economic prize said, ‘Two forces will shape the 21st century: urbanisation in China and technological innovation in the US.’ Urbanization is such an important issue for China and the world. Research figures indicate the urbanization rate has grown to 45% from 13% since 1949 and the government estimates it will increase to 60% in 2030. Some scholars have shown urbanization in China was very successful and got many notable accomplishments. On the other side, many other scholars also revealed critical opinions on what it has done in the past. They also worried about the future of urbanization in China. Through this report, This report will examine what benefits and disadvantages did urbanization process bring to China and How is the future of it.

Urbanization is taking place all over the world in the modern time. However, why does urbanization happen? According to the information about urbanization on the internet, there are several positive and negative effects of urbanization.