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Turkey launches campaign to clean up "sea snot"

Aerial photo taken on June 6, 2021 shows mucilage, also known as "sea snot," in the Marmara Sea in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Osman Orsal/Xinhua) Turkey launched on Tuesday a campaign to remo

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China to increase policy support in boosting domestic demand

A new energy vehicle on display in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, on July 24, 2020. /VCG China will boost domestic demand in the second half of the year, as consumption plays a fundamental role

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Uganda gov't creates seven cities to decongest capital

Uganda government has created seven cities across the East African country in a move to decongest the capital Kampala, a top official said here Wednesday. David Bahati, minister of State for Finance

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Pandemic expands investment opportunities in Africa's health sector: report

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has expanded investment opportunities in Africa's health sector, a report released on Tuesday showed. According to the report by global property consultancy firm, Knigh

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Africa's rapid urbanization largely unplanned: UNECA

The current rapid urbanization across the African continent is largely unplanned and "potentially catastrophic," the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA) stressed on Friday. The re

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A model for urbanization: China’s city clusters

Topoftheagendaforthisyear’sAsian-PacificEconomicCooperation(APEC)summitistheprocessofurbanizationanditsroleindevelopingtheregionaleconomy.Thesummit,whichstarted

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Expert says China, Europe can learn from each other in urbanization

ChinaandEuropeshouldlearnfromeachothers'strongpointsinurbanization,YangBaojun,presidentoftheChinaAcademyofUrbanPlanningandDesign(CAUPD),saidinaninterviewwithXin

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Half of farmers not interested in migrating to urban areas

Fifty percent of farmers responding to a survey said they have no plans to move to towns and settle down in urban areas, reported 21cn.com on Thursday.

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Urban work focused again in China meeting after 37 years

China addressed its future city development in a Central Urban Work Conference on Sunday, specially devoting a meeting to the issue after last doing so in 1978.

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Broad prospects expected in urbanization cooperation between China, S.Korea

​In the context of the implementation of China's new-type urbanization plan, broad prospects could be expected on urbanization cooperation between China and South Korea in future, said a Chinese urban development official.

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China will not pave paradise to put up parking lots

Urbanization, President Xi Jinping declared on Tuesday, must not mean the homogenization of urban and rural areas and people.

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China's urbanization cruises in fast lane

The Chinese government has steered its urbanization drive into the fast lane with new measures to clear major hurdles.

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Guideline to accelerate China's household registration reform

A new central government guideline is set to step up reform of China's household registration system and mark a new step in its urbanization drive, Shanghai Securities News reported on Monday.

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Deadly land disputes reveal urbanization enigmas

A land dispute in east China's Shandong has claimed one life and injured three people, a warning that strains are starting to show in the urbanization drive.

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China unveils landmark urbanization plan

China on Sunday unveiled an urbanization plan for the 2014-2020 period in an effort to steer the country's urbanization onto a human-centered and environmentally friendly path.

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China to release human-centered urbanization plan

China has completed a national plan on urbanization, and is expected to publish it soon, the China Securities Journal reported on Tuesday.

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China's urbanization to get more human touch

Urbanization in China should adopt a more people-oriented approach with greater efforts to guarantee equal access to public services.     Zheng Fengtian, vice dean of the agricultural economics and rural development school with Renmin University of China, made the remarks in a program on Chinese reforms aired on Tuesday on China Xinhua News Agency Network Co. Ltd. (CNC).