China's urban question
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Migrant workers arrive at a Beijing subway station. Provided to China Daily |
By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on Earth. In a talk at Chatham House, Tom Miller, author of China's Urban Billion will discuss the livelihood prospects for China's urban billion and examine the future landscape of China's cities, arguing that while the rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, new policies are urgently needed for the country to create healthier cities and reap the full benefits of urbanization
The speaker will contend that if its leaders get urbanization right, China will surpass the United States and cement its position as the world's largest economy. But if they get it wrong, China could spend the next 20 years languishing in middle-income torpor, its cities pockmarked by giant slums.
Date: April 17
Venue: Chatham House, London
Website: chathamhouse.org
