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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
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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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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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
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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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.
