After over 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s aggregate economic volume is now the second largest in the world. Over the past decade many provinces in the western region of China have implemented ecological migration projects of different scales, which have attracted considerable...

This book identifies "development-oriented poverty reduction" as a crucial part of what is now often billed as Chinas unique development path, experience and model. Chinas success serves as an example for any society aiming to eradicate poverty. However, there is still a tough road ahead as the...