TY - BOOK ED - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. ED - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. TI - OECD urban policy reviews : : China / SN - 9789264204805 (Thermal) U1 - 307.1 OEC 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Paris : PB - OECD Publishing KW - Urban policy KW - China. KW - City planning KW - China KW - Urban, Rural and Regional Development KW - E-books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Foreword and acknowledgements Acronyms and abbreviations Executive summary Assessment and Recommendations The Chinese urban system and its challenges Managing urbanisation in China: Migration, land and planning Enhancing China's urban governance structure N2 - Annotation. China needs a new model of urbanisation to match the shift to a new model of growth. For decades, both urbanisation and growth have been based on robust export demand, cheap labour, cheap land and artificially low pricing of environmental externalities. None of these can support growth or urban development in the future. This review examines the major challenges associated with the shift to a new model of urbanisation, looking at a range such issues as social and labour-market policies, land use and transport planning, urban planning, urban governance and public finance. The review presents a new assessment of China's major cities, which defines functional urban areas based on settlement patterns and commuting zones rather than cities defined as administrative units. The results show, among other things, that China has many more mega-cities, with populations above 10 million, than the official data suggest. The good news for China is that the reforms needed to foster what the authorities call "people-centred urbanisation", while complex, are coherent with one another and supportive of the broader shift to a growth model that relies more on domestic demand and productivity growth UR - http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rural-and-regional-development/oecd-urban-policy-reviews-china-2015_9789264230040-en ER -