's Republic of China are often, wrongly, taken as alternative approaches to the same problem. In reality, there is great … complexity, not only in the environments of these two great regions -- for China is as big as a region by itself -- but also …

China has became the world’s largest urban nation with today over 600 million urban citizens, a figure that is … projected to reach 900 million by 2050. Its national economy is already concentrated in cities: almost 65% of China’s GDP was … produced in its 53 metropolitan regions in 2004. Although the scale of China’s urbanisation – and the growing number of …