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Millions At Risk As Almost Half Of All Major Chinese Cities Are Sinking, Warns Study
Nearly half of China's major cities are skinking because of water extraction and due to the increasing weight of urban buildings and infrastructure, a new study has found.
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India Should Not Copy China For Urbanisation: Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar
India should not replicate foreign models like that of China for urbanisation, and needs to create growth hubs across the country, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said today.
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An Ancient Chinese Fishing Community Washes Ashore
Along southern China's snaking rivers, an ancient fishing community that once lived and worked exclusively on the water has been finding its way to land
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Ease Of Doing Business: India Overtakes China To Top Global Retail Index, Says Study
Rapid urbanisation and a growing middle class with higher income levels are driving up consumption across the country, global management consulting firm A T Kearney said.
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As Earth Sees Growing Urbanisation, China-Europe In Talks To Settle Village On Moon
China and Europe are planning to build the first-ever 'Moon Village' that could serve as a launching pad for deep space missions such as one to Mars, or even as a spot for space tourism and lunar mining.
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China Challenge: Getting Poor Migrant Workers To Buy Vacant Homes
Rattled by the potential economic fallout from millions of unsold homes, China wants migrant workers to buy properties in smaller cities and ease the burden on a real estate sector that makes up about 15 percent of the country's economic growth.
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Why PM Modi's 100 Smart Cities Plan is Great News for China
India will be the lone bright spot for Chinese steelmen trying to cut bloated inventories as Asia's third-largest economy embarks on a once-in-a-generation urbanisation drive under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Why PM Modi's 100 Smart Cities Plan is Great News for China
Urban dwellers will double to more than 800 million by 2050, a scale of mass urbanisation only seen before in China. Ahead of PM Modi's election last May, he vowed to construct 100 so-called "smart" cities by 2022, an infrastructure project some estimate would cost $1 trillion (Rs 63 lakh crore).
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China's Young Migrants Like Cities, Spend More - Survey
China's young rural migrant workers are more eager to work in cities, and are spending more and saving less, an official survey showed on Monday, a trend that could boost Beijing's efforts to urbanise and re-balance the economy in the long term.
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China's gold demand to remain robust, to reach 1,350 tonnes by 2017: WGC
Chinese demand for gold is expected to grow 22.72 per cent to reach to about 1,350 tonnes by 2017 on rising real incomes - a deepening pool of private savings and rapid urbanisation across the country, according to a report by the World Gold Council.
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China plans investment, reform to ease urbanisation drive
China is planning a major expansion of its transport networks and urban infrastructure as it seeks to increase migration from rural to urban areas, lifting incomes and demand to drive continued economic growth.
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This Chinese cake millionaire owns six castles
As the greatest urbanisation drive in history swells China's cities with ranks of identikit apartment blocks, one culinary businessman is indulging his architectural appetite with a visual feast of extravagant, outlandish castles.
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China cake millionaire at home in his six castles
As the greatest urbanisation drive in history swells China's cities with ranks of identikit apartment blocks, one culinary businessman is indulging his architectural appetite with a visual feast of extravagant, outlandish castles.
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'Empty cities' emerging in China, warns top official
In a grim warning against rapid urbanisation in China, a top development official has said that reckless expansion of cities has turned many of them into ghost towns with no occupants in sight.
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China's urbanisation drive leaves migrant workers out in the cold
Cheap but crowded neighbourhoods are being cleared across China as part of a stepped-up "urbanisation" campaign by China's new leaders. The country aims to spend an estimated $6 trillion on infrastructure, including housing, as a projected 400 million people become urban residents over the next decade.
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Millions At Risk As Almost Half Of All Major Chinese Cities Are Sinking, Warns Study
Nearly half of China's major cities are skinking because of water extraction and due to the increasing weight of urban buildings and infrastructure, a new study has found.
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India Should Not Copy China For Urbanisation: Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar
India should not replicate foreign models like that of China for urbanisation, and needs to create growth hubs across the country, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said today.
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An Ancient Chinese Fishing Community Washes Ashore
Along southern China's snaking rivers, an ancient fishing community that once lived and worked exclusively on the water has been finding its way to land
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Ease Of Doing Business: India Overtakes China To Top Global Retail Index, Says Study
Rapid urbanisation and a growing middle class with higher income levels are driving up consumption across the country, global management consulting firm A T Kearney said.
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As Earth Sees Growing Urbanisation, China-Europe In Talks To Settle Village On Moon
China and Europe are planning to build the first-ever 'Moon Village' that could serve as a launching pad for deep space missions such as one to Mars, or even as a spot for space tourism and lunar mining.
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China Challenge: Getting Poor Migrant Workers To Buy Vacant Homes
Rattled by the potential economic fallout from millions of unsold homes, China wants migrant workers to buy properties in smaller cities and ease the burden on a real estate sector that makes up about 15 percent of the country's economic growth.
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Why PM Modi's 100 Smart Cities Plan is Great News for China
India will be the lone bright spot for Chinese steelmen trying to cut bloated inventories as Asia's third-largest economy embarks on a once-in-a-generation urbanisation drive under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Why PM Modi's 100 Smart Cities Plan is Great News for China
Urban dwellers will double to more than 800 million by 2050, a scale of mass urbanisation only seen before in China. Ahead of PM Modi's election last May, he vowed to construct 100 so-called "smart" cities by 2022, an infrastructure project some estimate would cost $1 trillion (Rs 63 lakh crore).
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China's Young Migrants Like Cities, Spend More - Survey
China's young rural migrant workers are more eager to work in cities, and are spending more and saving less, an official survey showed on Monday, a trend that could boost Beijing's efforts to urbanise and re-balance the economy in the long term.
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China's gold demand to remain robust, to reach 1,350 tonnes by 2017: WGC
Chinese demand for gold is expected to grow 22.72 per cent to reach to about 1,350 tonnes by 2017 on rising real incomes - a deepening pool of private savings and rapid urbanisation across the country, according to a report by the World Gold Council.
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China plans investment, reform to ease urbanisation drive
China is planning a major expansion of its transport networks and urban infrastructure as it seeks to increase migration from rural to urban areas, lifting incomes and demand to drive continued economic growth.
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This Chinese cake millionaire owns six castles
As the greatest urbanisation drive in history swells China's cities with ranks of identikit apartment blocks, one culinary businessman is indulging his architectural appetite with a visual feast of extravagant, outlandish castles.
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China cake millionaire at home in his six castles
As the greatest urbanisation drive in history swells China's cities with ranks of identikit apartment blocks, one culinary businessman is indulging his architectural appetite with a visual feast of extravagant, outlandish castles.
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'Empty cities' emerging in China, warns top official
In a grim warning against rapid urbanisation in China, a top development official has said that reckless expansion of cities has turned many of them into ghost towns with no occupants in sight.
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China's urbanisation drive leaves migrant workers out in the cold
Cheap but crowded neighbourhoods are being cleared across China as part of a stepped-up "urbanisation" campaign by China's new leaders. The country aims to spend an estimated $6 trillion on infrastructure, including housing, as a projected 400 million people become urban residents over the next decade.
