China Small and Medium Towns Overview
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate substantially exceeded China's population growth, which averaged 1.4 percent annually between 1978 and 2009, and real GDP per capita accordingly grew at 8.6 percent annually during this period. China�...
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okr-10986-127772021-04-23T14:03:04Z China Small and Medium Towns Overview World Bank BIRTHS CITIES CONSTRUCTION DATA COLLECTION DEATHS ELECTRIC POWER EXPENDITURES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL MARKET GDP PER CAPITA HOSPITALS HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT LAND DEVELOPMENT LAND USE POPULATION DATA POPULATION INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY STATISTICAL DATA TOTAL POPULATION TOWNS TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENTS TOWNSHIPS URBAN URBAN AREA URBAN AREAS URBAN CENTERS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN CORE URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN GROWTH URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN SERVICES URBAN WATER URBAN WORKERS URBANIZATION Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate substantially exceeded China's population growth, which averaged 1.4 percent annually between 1978 and 2009, and real GDP per capita accordingly grew at 8.6 percent annually during this period. China's urban population resides primarily in city districts (shiqu) and town districts (zhenqu), which constitute the urban core of larger administrative units called cities (shi) and respectively towns (zhen). Cities and towns in China are expansive regions, with administrative territories much larger than in the rest of the world (Chan 2007). Cities are conceptually equivalent to counties in the U.S. and thus the whole of China's territory is basically covered by 287 prefecture and provincial level municipalities, which within their area include 654 city districts - the cities proper in the conventional sense of this word - and 19,322 towns. Each town in turn includes a town district - an urban core that occupies a fraction of the town's area but accounts for most of the town's urban population. While cities and towns as a whole overlap in their administrative boundaries, with multiple towns nested within each city, city districts and town districts are disjoint structures, being urban embryos within the administrative boundaries of territorially larger cities and towns. The main purpose of this study is to examine the development and features of town districts (zhenqu) - the urbanized core of China's towns. 2013-03-15T16:59:29Z 2013-03-15T16:59:29Z 2012-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16432410/china-small-medium-towns-overview http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12777 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Country Infrastructure Framework Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific China |
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BIRTHS CITIES CONSTRUCTION DATA COLLECTION DEATHS ELECTRIC POWER EXPENDITURES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL MARKET GDP PER CAPITA HOSPITALS HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT LAND DEVELOPMENT LAND USE POPULATION DATA POPULATION INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY STATISTICAL DATA TOTAL POPULATION TOWNS TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENTS TOWNSHIPS URBAN URBAN AREA URBAN AREAS URBAN CENTERS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN CORE URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN GROWTH URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN SERVICES URBAN WATER URBAN WORKERS URBANIZATION |
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BIRTHS CITIES CONSTRUCTION DATA COLLECTION DEATHS ELECTRIC POWER EXPENDITURES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL MARKET GDP PER CAPITA HOSPITALS HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT LAND DEVELOPMENT LAND USE POPULATION DATA POPULATION INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY STATISTICAL DATA TOTAL POPULATION TOWNS TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENTS TOWNSHIPS URBAN URBAN AREA URBAN AREAS URBAN CENTERS URBAN COMMUNITIES URBAN CORE URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN GROWTH URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN SERVICES URBAN WATER URBAN WORKERS URBANIZATION World Bank China Small and Medium Towns Overview |
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate
substantially exceeded China's population growth, which
averaged 1.4 percent annually between 1978 and 2009, and
real GDP per capita accordingly grew at 8.6 percent annually
during this period. China's urban population resides
primarily in city districts (shiqu) and town districts
(zhenqu), which constitute the urban core of larger
administrative units called cities (shi) and respectively
towns (zhen). Cities and towns in China are expansive
regions, with administrative territories much larger than in
the rest of the world (Chan 2007). Cities are conceptually
equivalent to counties in the U.S. and thus the whole of
China's territory is basically covered by 287
prefecture and provincial level municipalities, which within
their area include 654 city districts - the cities proper in
the conventional sense of this word - and 19,322 towns. Each
town in turn includes a town district - an urban core that
occupies a fraction of the town's area but accounts for
most of the town's urban population. While cities and
towns as a whole overlap in their administrative boundaries,
with multiple towns nested within each city, city districts
and town districts are disjoint structures, being urban
embryos within the administrative boundaries of
territorially larger cities and towns. The main purpose of
this study is to examine the development and features of
town districts (zhenqu) - the urbanized core of China's towns. |
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China Small and Medium Towns Overview |
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China Small and Medium Towns Overview |
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