Yuheng LI
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Yurui LI
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of SciencesYansui LIU
College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District Beijing 100101, China liuys@igsnrr.ac.cn (corresponding author)Abstract
The paper aims to comment on China’s ambition to urbanize 300 million peasant workers as a main task in realizing its urban dream. It investigates the severe peasant-workers related problems and points out that local government’s financial capacity, peasant workers’ vocational skills, social inclusion and degrading countryside are challenging the sustainable urban and rural development in China and need properly treated. The paper proposes possible ways for policy implications and highlights the importance of coherently promoting both classified urbanization and ruralization in China in the future.
Keywords: Urbanization, peasant workers, ruralization, China
JEL classification: R11, R12
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