Open book: The Pinch, Shuanghe village, China by Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin / the University of Hong Kong
By: Priestman, Matthew
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Publisher: London EMAP Publishing Limited 2018Edition: 18 December 2018.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Architectural reviewSummary: Western media regularly features the remarkable story of urbanisation in modern China. Through an ongoing and unprecedented collective effort of planning, infrastructure and construction, its urban population has increased from 72 million to 770 million (13 to 57 per cent of the country’s total population) since 1950. And according to the World Bank, 500 million Chinese have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1981, a staggering achievement by any measure.
In rural China, however, poverty is still endemic, and economic migration of the working-age generation often means that children are left behind to be cared for by frail grandparents. The government’s Coordinated Urban-Rural Development (CURD) programme aims to tackle rural poverty, with initiatives covering re-training, infrastructure, stimulation of new industry, controlled migration to urban areas and rural pension subsidies. Rural areas are now being transformed through the construction of new road and rail infrastructure, re-housing, industrial buildings and the promotion of local economies, such as new farming techniques, rural tourism and consumerism.
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Western media regularly features the remarkable story of urbanisation in modern China. Through an ongoing and unprecedented collective effort of planning, infrastructure and construction, its urban population has increased from 72 million to 770 million (13 to 57 per cent of the country’s total population) since 1950. And according to the World Bank, 500 million Chinese have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1981, a staggering achievement by any measure.
In rural China, however, poverty is still endemic, and economic migration of the working-age generation often means that children are left behind to be cared for by frail grandparents. The government’s Coordinated Urban-Rural Development (CURD) programme aims to tackle rural poverty, with initiatives covering re-training, infrastructure, stimulation of new industry, controlled migration to urban areas and rural pension subsidies. Rural areas are now being transformed through the construction of new road and rail infrastructure, re-housing, industrial buildings and the promotion of local economies, such as new farming techniques, rural tourism and consumerism.
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