Urbanisation drive in China to have ‘human focus’

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The urbanisation is also an important indicator for China policy decision, thus the individual investment decision in China...

Urbanisation drive in China to have ‘human focus’

BEIJING — China’s Premier, Mr Li Keqiang, wants his plan to turn more Chinese into city dwellers to be humanity-centred, focusing on quality of life and the environment and driven by job creation, the official China Daily newspaper reported yesterday.

Mr Li has an ambitious plan to boost the urban population by 400 million over the next decade, a key plank in a reform effort to restructure the economy away from credit and export-driven growth to one where consumers provide the main impetus.

But the plan faces obstacles, including a lack of infrastructure in cities to deal with the influx of new residents and the cost of building it, leading to concerns that a spending binge could push up already high local debt levels and inflate the property bubble. The need to reform a complex system of residency registration, or hukou, that controls the benefits residents can enjoy is also a sticking point.

The China Daily said on its website that Mr Li met a group of experts recently to discuss the urbanisation drive, in a sign of his concern over driving the policy. It quoted some of the experts as saying that young migrant workers wanted to stay in the cities they had moved to, but few had access to social security, education and housing benefits under the hukou system.

Other experts noted the need for sufficient economic growth to create the jobs needed to support urbanisation, so there should not be an overly aggressive target for urbanisation.

Mr Li, who wrote a thesis on urbanisation in the early 1990s, said the government should first identify areas of consensus, like the redevelopment of slum communities on the edge of cities, as a base for steps towards urbanisation. In July, a government think-tank said the cost of settling China’s rural workers in cities could be 650 billion yuan (S$135.2 billion) a year, or about 5.5 per cent of last year’s fiscal revenue.

Policymakers, planners and government advisers are currently drafting proposals on how to implement Mr Li’s vision that will be presented to the Communist Party’s top leaders in November. Reuters
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Further update on the China's urbanisation...

China should pursue ‘high-quality’ urbanisation

BEIJING — China must plan scientifically for “high-quality” urbanisation that is human-oriented and energy-saving, a senior official at the country’s top economic planning agency said in remarks published yesterday.

The country’s leaders have an ambitious plan to boost the urban population by 400 million over the next decade, a key plank in a reform effort to restructure the economy away from credit and export growth to one where consumers provide the main impetus.

Mr Zhang Xiaoqiang, Vice-Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), also said China’s urbanisation level, at about 52 per cent of the population, still has a long way to catch up with that of developed economies and even some Asian countries.

“Our urbanisation should embody the concepts of green, intensive, intelligent and low-carbon, and it does not mean simply building things or enclosing land,” he said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in the north-eastern port city of Dalian that was posted on the NDRC website.

His remarks echo those of Premier Li Keqiang, who told a recent meeting of experts on the subject that urbanisation should focus on quality of life and the environment, and should be driven by job creation.

The NDRC has said it will unveil an urbanisation plan later in the year.
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