In 2018, China's urbanization Reaches 60 Percent

The level of urbanization in China is expected to reach 60 percent by 2018, according to the government think tank.

Previous team think tank predicts China's rise in the level of urbanization in the country's bamboo curtain will reach 60 percent by 2020. But after review, the chances increase to reach that number is expected to occur two years sooner than predicted.


The urban population in China has boomed over the past three decades. In 2012, more than half the population already live in urban areas. Quoted by Xinhua news agency, published a report of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said that about 54 percent of China's population now lives in cities.
Chinese leaders encourage a larger number of the country's 1.4 billion people to live in cities. It was triggered by an attempt to boost the economy and spur economic growth in China back in 2012 down to 7.8 percent. This figure represents the slowest level in 13 years.

an issue

But with the increase in urbanization, the Chinese government also faces the challenges of managing one of the largest migration in human history. Including high political and financial costs in facilitating 25 million people per year, to move to the city. 
 Adaptation helps villagers with urban life can cost up to about 107 billion dollars per year, according to the think-tank institutions mentioned China in July. That means the equivalent of 5.5 percent of fiscal revenues in 2012.

the welfare

China's leadership is also struggling to balance urbanization targets, such as encouraging the migration of millions of former peasants into urban dwellers, while avoiding the problem of unemployment that has occurred in other countries experiencing similar migration.
In order to eliminate the barriers of urbanization, China also needs to encourage reform of social welfare. Millions of migrant workers in China's major cities still do not have access to education, health and other services related to the strict bureaucracy in the country.

In the past 30 years, China's urban population has soared to more than 700 million people from before about 200 million people. Changes as a result of this migration raises some inevitable consequences. For example, clashes over land, lack of water supply, pollution and other problems.