NDLI: Weaving the Chinese Dream on the Ground? Local Government Approaches to “New-Typed” Rural Urbanization

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Ahlers, Anna L.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The Chinese urban dream is not a sudden one. Long before the “National Urbanization Plan” was issued in 2014, planning had been underway for a new type of state-engineered in situ urbanization of the Chinese hinterland. Replacing the previous system of macro scale urbanization in favor of a more balanced dissemination of urban infrastructure and a socially more acceptable concentration of resources and the population has been on the political agenda since the mid-2000s. The evolution of smaller-scale “new rural neighborhoods/communities” is particularly illustrative of this trend.However, the realization of China’s new urban dream depends on the way in which it is spun at local level. Emphasizing the enormous local variation of contemporary rural urbanization, this article introduces two counties’ comprehensive “new rural neighborhood” programs, their concepts for planning and steering the concentration and resettlement of village housing, including the related interim adjustments of household registration and land use management. The motivation and interests of local governments that shape plans for state-led rural urbanization were quite complex. Furthermore, it is argued that we can indeed find cases in which the ‘new’ notion of urbanization in China has encouraged a more comprehensive and sustainable system of localized developmental planning, not least because local governments are increasingly able to serve their own interests by designing functioning public goods and services provision schemes enwrapped in the “new-typed urbanization” dream – a logic that deserves close attention in the years to come.
Starting Page	121
Ending Page	142
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10806954
Journal	Journal of Chinese Political Science
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18746357
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-04-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	China Dream Urbanization Rural Development “New Rural Neighborhoods” Local Governance Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

The China Dream is an Urban Dream: Assessing the CPC’s National New-Type Urbanization Plan

Coordinated Rural-Urban Development in China: a New Social Spatial Reorganization Plan for Urbanization, Migration, and Rural Development

Why Village Election Has Not Much Improved Village Governance

The Impact of Economic Development on Political Interest Across Social Classes in China: Turning the Chinese Dream into a Chinese Reality?

Citizens’ Perceptions of Governance in Rural and Urban China

Rising Confidence Behind the “Chinese Dream”

Interpreting the Chinese Dream: An Exercise of Political Hermeneutics

A Micro-Geography of State Extractive Power: the Case of Rural China

The Chinese Dream: Concept and Context

Weaving the Chinese Dream on the Ground? Local Government Approaches to “New-Typed” Rural Urbanization

Similar Documents

The China Dream is an Urban Dream: Assessing the CPC’s National New-Type Urbanization Plan

Coordinated Rural-Urban Development in China: a New Social Spatial Reorganization Plan for Urbanization, Migration, and Rural Development

Why Village Election Has Not Much Improved Village Governance

The Impact of Economic Development on Political Interest Across Social Classes in China: Turning the Chinese Dream into a Chinese Reality?

Citizens’ Perceptions of Governance in Rural and Urban China

Rising Confidence Behind the “Chinese Dream”

Interpreting the Chinese Dream: An Exercise of Political Hermeneutics

A Micro-Geography of State Extractive Power: the Case of Rural China

The Chinese Dream: Concept and Context

Weaving the Chinese Dream on the Ground? Local Government Approaches to “New-Typed” Rural Urbanization