This week , Chinese authorities publish the results of a long - delayed blueprint for how it will turn its city — and its economy — by 2020 . The plan is sweeping , challenging , and dim , and it give us a glimpse of China ’s hereafter .
The Southern Cross of the design ? Move 100 million the great unwashed — principally , rural farmers — into cities by 2020 . To reconcile them , China will start a massive push to develop dear public infrastructure , from hospitals to schools to railways . grant to the study ’s authors , the whole melodic theme is to bolster the slacken off economy with an influx of new actor , novel housing , new infrastructure , and new factories .
The paper is 30 chapters long , but a few highlights :

By 2020 , 60 percentage of cities will take on China ’s national befoulment standards . [ Reuters ]
Every metropolis of more than 200,000 hoi polloi will have a railway connection . [ WSJ ]
$ 163 billion will be spent to better the slum area - corresponding conditions of migratory proletarian . [ Bloomberg ]

The industrial development will be focused in the west , by from China ’s already developed easterly edge . [ SCMP ]
Right now , less than 40 per centum of urban citizen are “ register ” under China’sHukou organisation , meaning that the other 60 percent do n’t have approach to public services , including public school . The new plan will increase the percentage of registered citizens to 45 percentage — or 100 million new registered city dwellers . [ QZ ]
How realistic are these goals ? It ’s hard to say — but urbanization is already happening at a rapid pace . We ’ll just have to waitress and see whether the political science can rescue on its promises . you could check out the detail of the architectural plan over onXinhaunetorThe New York Times .

Lead image : Lam Yik Fei / Stringer .
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