Publication: China Small and Medium Towns Overview
dc.contributor.author | World Bank | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-15T16:59:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-15T16:59:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16432410/china-small-medium-towns-overview | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1596/12777 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/12777 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Washington, DC | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | BIRTHS | |
dc.subject | CITIES | |
dc.subject | CONSTRUCTION | |
dc.subject | DATA COLLECTION | |
dc.subject | DEATHS | |
dc.subject | ELECTRIC POWER | |
dc.subject | EXPENDITURES | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL MARKET | |
dc.subject | GDP PER CAPITA | |
dc.subject | HOSPITALS | |
dc.subject | HOUSING | |
dc.subject | INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | LAND DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | LAND USE | |
dc.subject | POPULATION DATA | |
dc.subject | POPULATION INCREASES | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC POLICY | |
dc.subject | STATISTICAL DATA | |
dc.subject | TOTAL POPULATION | |
dc.subject | TOWNS | |
dc.subject | TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENTS | |
dc.subject | TOWNSHIPS | |
dc.subject | URBAN | |
dc.subject | URBAN AREA | |
dc.subject | URBAN AREAS | |
dc.subject | URBAN CENTERS | |
dc.subject | URBAN COMMUNITIES | |
dc.subject | URBAN CORE | |
dc.subject | URBAN DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | URBAN GROWTH | |
dc.subject | URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE | |
dc.subject | URBAN POPULATION | |
dc.subject | URBAN POPULATION GROWTH | |
dc.subject | URBAN SERVICES | |
dc.subject | URBAN WATER | |
dc.subject | URBAN WORKERS | |
dc.subject | URBANIZATION | |
dc.title | China Small and Medium Towns Overview | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.date.disclosure | 2012-06-26 | |
okr.date.doiregistration | 2025-05-07T11:42:32.901515Z | |
okr.doctype | Economic & Sector Work::Country Infrastructure Framework | |
okr.doctype | Economic & Sector Work | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16432410/china-small-medium-towns-overview | |
okr.globalpractice | Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience | |
okr.globalpractice | Transport and ICT | |
okr.globalpractice | Health, Nutrition, and Population | |
okr.guid | 212671468219308722 | |
okr.guid | 652091468219309036 | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000356161_20120627010450 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 16432410 | |
okr.identifier.report | 70495 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2012/06/27/000356161_20120627010450/Rendered/PDF/704950ESW0P0950043B00PUBLIC00SMT0en.pdf | en |
okr.region.administrative | East Asia and Pacific | |
okr.region.country | China | |
okr.sector | Water, sanitation and flood protection :: Water supply | |
okr.sector | Public Administration, Law, and Justice :: Sub-national government administration | |
okr.sector | Health and other social services :: Other social services | |
okr.theme | Rural development :: Rural services and infrastructure | |
okr.theme | Environment and natural resources management :: Pollution management and environmental health | |
okr.theme | Social dev/gender/inclusion :: Participation and civic engagement | |
okr.theme | Human development | |
okr.topic | National Urban Development Policies and Strategies | |
okr.topic | Communities and Human Settlements::Urban Housing and Land Settlements | |
okr.topic | Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Indicators | |
okr.topic | Information and Communication Technologies::ICT Applications | |
okr.topic | Health | |
okr.topic | Nutrition and Population | |
okr.topic | Urban Development | |
okr.unit | China & Mongolia Sustainable Dev (EASCS) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 |
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