Urbanization And Localization In China

Studies about the revitalization of cities always tend to focus on larger cities. But, the challenges, which are unique to small towns, are not often recognized or addressed. Universities (i.e. Renmin University) in China seek to overcome the past tendency to research on urbanization issues as discrete problems. Their goal is to identify feasible options by which urbanization will grow through localization. Universities in China will use their expertise to strengthen their engagement in contributing to rural policy development.
In China the spatial policy framework approach provides the opportunity to deal with uncoordinated and unbalanced regional development. Government is the sole decision maker and often the facts are suppressed by the

But, it has huge potential for integrating tourism into agriculture. Furthermore, land consolidation can be also an effective instrument for bringing regularity in ‘rural hollowing’. Though there is no uniform definition of the term ‘rural hollowing’, generally it refers to the phenomena of abandoned and damaged buildings in inner villages. Rural hollowing is an obstacle to the optimization of land use efficiency and has a wasteful use of rural land. Land consolidation can be an undertaken with an aim to push forward rural spatial restructuring, which can eventually improve rural infrastructures and public service

Therefore, landscape quality should not be confined to areas of special interest e.g. tourism, but everyday life. However, this broader concept is apparently missing in Greenways Policy in China, which is limited to serve the purpose of providing access. Therefore, it is difficult to understand how the term ‘Greenways’ was built and the Chinese way of defining ‘landscape’. Greenways should be better connected with the places where one can have everyday leisure. River delta, drainage and irrigation system, polder techniques, which are important structures of landscape should be taken into account while developing leisure and recreational landscape. Instead of concentrating on the country parks, landscape quality should be developed everywhere.

- Rural communities cannot exist and thrive without appropriate public services and infrastructures, which are still inadequate in rural areas in China. Invest in public services and infrastructures in rural areas will contribute not only to agricultural production growth, but also to the development of rural non-farm sectors.
- The future of rural development depends to a great extent on the digital technologies, which are essential to fill the existing gap with urban areas. Evidences show that availability of high speed internet and mobile phone connection can help improve the economy in rural areas.