The Urbanization Process in China and its Impact on the Environment

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Asian studies grade: 1.0 University of Duisburg-Essen (Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften) language: English abstract: This paper reviews the urbanization process in China during the past decades and gives a prospect for the near future. It is shown that in a remarkably short period China increased its urban population to more than 50 percent of the entire population. This rapid urbanization was mainly driven by rural-urban migration in the course of the industrialization process and by the in situ urbanization as a mainly government related factor. The paper afterwards identifies energy and resources pollution and land consumption as the major areas where by urbanization caused challenges need to be tackled.