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Journal Article
Is Chinese urbanisation unique?
2020
Overview
The future of cities in China is becoming increasingly important, not just within China but globally. China’s urban population has grown from about 200 million in 1980 to about 800 million or 59% in 2018: that is about twice the total population of the USA and 1.5 times the total population of the EU. China has over 100 cities with over a million people. There are also more and more papers being written about urbanisation in China. However, urban development in China is very unlike urban development in the west or in many other developing countries. Despite the growth of a large, dynamic market sector, China is still a Communist country in terms of the pervasive and leading role of the party and the state. The question posed in this commentary is whether urbanisation in China is unique; or, to be more precise, whether the post-reform Chinese experience of urbanisation since around 1980 is so unusual that it constitutes an entirely unique case which lies outside conventional generalisations about urban change processes. This question links to recent discussions of comparative urbanism in which various scholars have grappled with questions about the generalisability of urban theory and experience. The tentative conclusion is that Chinese urbanisation may be unique and is certainly not easily subsumed into standard discussions about urban development and urban change.
中国城市的未来变得越来越重要，这不仅仅是对中国而言，对全球而言都是如此。中国的城市人口从1980年的2亿左右增长到2018年的8亿左右，即59%，是美国总人口的两倍，也是欧盟总人口的1.5倍。中国有100多个城市的人口超过100万。关于中国城市化的论文也越来越多。然而，中国的城市发展与西方（或许还有许多其他发展中国家）的城市发展非常不同。尽管中国有一个庞大而充满活力的市场部门，但就党和政府的普遍主导作用而言，中国仍然是一个共产主义国家。这篇评论中提出的问题是中国的城市化是否独一无二；或者，更准确地说，中国自1980年左右以来经历的改革后城市化是否如此不寻常，以至于构成了一个完全独特的案例，超出了对城市变革过程的常规概括。这个问题与最近关于比较城市化的讨论有关，在这种讨论中，许多学者都在努力解决关于城市理论和经验的普遍性的问题。我们的初步结论是，中国的城市化或许是独一无二的，肯定不容易被纳入关于城市发展和城市变革的标准讨论。
Publisher
Sage Publications, Ltd,SAGE Publications,Sage Publications Ltd
