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.
Chinese central authorities on Sunday issued guidelines on urban development, two months after leaders met for the Central Urban Work Conference and promised to make China's sprawling cities more livable, efficient and green.
China took a major move Tuesday to make medical insurance accessible for all.
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.
China took a major move Wednesday to make its basic education fairer for all, as the State Council decided that government spending shall henceforth be the same for each rural student or migrant workers' child as their urban counterpart.
Urbanization, President Xi Jinping declared on Tuesday, must not mean the homogenization of urban and rural areas and people.
Many Chinese migrant laborers who left home to pursue their dreams in cities are anticipating that the rural-urban development gap is narrowing and returning to their hometowns in the countryside.
China's urbanization drive will create larger clusters of cities, in terms of economic power as well as size and population, according to experts.
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.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, announced on Wednesday the country will build a fair, unified and standardized pension system for its rural and urban population before 2020.
China's recently declared intention to unify pension schemes for rural residents and unemployed urbanites has won acclaim as a way to narrow the urban-rural gap, but challenges lie ahead.
Proper urban planning is needed to avoid accidents like the deadly oil pipeline blasts in an economic zone in east China's Shandong Province.
Compared with those living in rural areas, women living in large urban areas are at a significantly higher risk of postpartum depression after five to 14 months of giving birth, according to a new Canadian study.
A soft drink vendor's scheme to fake his own death for financial gain was revealed after the heat in central China's Hubei Province proved too much for him to bear on Saturday.
Two urban management officials in a central Chinese county were removed from their posts Saturday after a street vendor died in a physical conflict with urban management officers, local authorities said.
A vendor died on Wednesday in a clash with urban management officers in central China's Hunan Province.
Premier Wen Jiabao delivered a government work report at the opening session of 12th National People's Congress (NPC), highlighting his government's past achievements and future work ahead.
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