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Urbanization in China is currently undergoing a strategic shift away from acceleration to deceleration and from a focus on quantity to a focus on quality. This shift seeks to remedy the lack of control and urban-rural divide that characterized previous stages of urbanization.
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A higher urbanization rate is not necessarily better. There is a peak value, or upper limit, for a country’s urbanization rate depending on food security, reasonable urban-rural population and space ratios. This peak value for China may be about 85% (Wei 2013). But this peak value may also be about 70%, according to another study [the Department of Services and Management for Migrant Population, the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People (NHFPC) 2012].
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Wei, H. (2019). Strategic Thinking About Urbanization in China. In: Urbanization in China. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1408-7_3
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