According to Chinese news reports, urbanization could add 400 million more people to the current Chinese urban population in the next decade. Ding Yifan writes that this will objectively promote the further liberalization of China's domestic capital markets, driven by comprehensive reform.

As China enters the urban age, Kam Wing Chan writes that a critical part of the Chinese dream is the "urban dream" - the promotion of urbanisation to generate household consumption to put the economy on a sustainable footing.

Niu Yi writes that China’s economy in 2013 will be guided by the quality and efficiency of economic reform, and that a new model of urbanization will provide the largest potential for promoting domestic spending.

Former Secretary of the US Treasury Department, Henry M. Paulson Jr., examines how better urban policies can assist China’s ailing economy, even as investment and exports continue to decline.

Last year, for the first time in Chinese history more people lived in cities and towns than in the countryside. Some 690 million urban dwellers now account for

Depending on how you count the numbers, there are some 200-250 million farm households in China representing a population of some 700-800 million persons. When

The Chinese economy continues to be a hot topic in international media forums as its export growth rate starts to decline due to the dark economic clouds hangin

With the U.S. economy in the doldrums and Europe's ongoing debt crisis continuing its downward spiral, analysts are left to wonder if China might be the sav

In the popular media and the business world, urbanization is often the most cited fundamental driver of global economic growth, especially for the next few deca

Investors and pundits alike have shown unbounded excitement, and some anxiety, about China’s economic growth. Extrapolating current trends, some forecasters pr