Fan, Shenggen; Li, Lixing; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2013
It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to … promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical … governance structure, a city status can only be determined and awarded by the central government. In the 1980s and 1990s, China …