China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History by Miller, Tom

China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780321417)

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China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History by Miller, Tom

China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History

$29.95
China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History by Miller, Tom

China's Urban Billion: The Story Behind the Biggest Migration in Human History

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like?

Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are rural migrants, who lead second-class lives without access to urban benefits. Even those lucky citizens who live in modern tower blocks must put up with clogged roads, polluted skies and cityscapes of unremitting ugliness. The rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are urgently needed to create healthier cities.

Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved. If its leaders get urbanization right, China will surpass the United States and cement its position as the world's largest economy. But if they get it wrong, China could spend the next twenty years languishing in middle-income torpor, its cities pockmarked by giant slums.

Author: Tom Miller
ISBN-10: 1780321414
ISBN-13: 9781780321417
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2012
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d

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By Tom Miller
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Tom Miller is managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, published by research company GK Dragonomics, and a former Beijing correspondent of the South China Morning Post. Resident in China for more than a decade, Tom lives in Beijing with his wife and two children. This is his first book.
Tom Miller is managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, published by research company GK Dragonomics, and a former Beijing correspondent of the South China Morning Post. Resident in China for more than a decade, Tom lives in Beijing with his wife and two children. This is his first book.

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