The spread of suffocating smog to more Chinese cities this winter came as another warning for the country to intensify its campaign against environmental damage caused by three decades of rapid growth.
China on Saturday pledged proactive yet steady moves in pushing forward human-centered urbanization as it looks to balance urban-rural development and unleash domestic demand.
China on Tuesday unveiled a development plan for 262 cities it identified as resource-dependent -- those that are rich in natural resources -- in an effort to guide their growth onto a more sustainable track.
Property prices in major Chinese cities, especially those with tight supply are expected to continue rising in 2014, defying local government's latest macro-control efforts.
China and European Union has made another step forward in enhancing their strategic partnership as cities and organizations of the two parties agreed to join hands in tapping China's growing urbanization market.
China's fast urbanization has brought millions of farmers from the countryside into cities. Now, the children of the first generation of rural migrants have grown up.
Reducing air pollution and particularly the heavy smog frequently smothering large cities, especially in the north, has become a high priority for China.
Chinese cities are speeding up construction of subway lines as the increasing number of vehicles in urban areas has been largely blamed for smog.
Hikes in Chinese urban house prices are again touching a nerve among the public as the faster-than-expected price growth heightens expectations for new control measures, the China Securities Journal reported on Wednesday.
Prices of both new and existing homes continued to rise in most Chinese cities in September, according to official data released on Tuesday.
Li Wei, who took a vacation to escape her big city life, did not expect her short stay in the small coastal city of Wanning on China's tropical island of Hainan Province, to be so "digital."
Driven by rapid urbanization and speculation, China's property market has taken off in recent years, especially after the economic stimulus policies the government issued in 2009 to help weather the global financial crisis.
Residents in seven cities in the Chinese mainland on Wednesday were given official permission to apply to travel to Taiwan as individuals under a cross-Strait agreement, bringing the total such mainland cities to 26.
People in 41 cities of China can insure their enjoyment of the full moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival from Monday.
Prices of both new and existing homes continued to rise in most Chinese cities in June, according to official data released on Thursday.
China's spectacular economic growth has been accompanied by social contradictions as a result of the development of industrialization and urbanization, said Chinese economists in Hong Kong on June 3.
The government has put increasing pilot cities for property tax trials on the work agenda this year, the China Securities Journal reported Monday.
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