%0 Journal Article
%T History Matters: Chinese Urbanisation as an Emergent Space
%A Daria Lisaia
%A Yimin Sun
%J Urbanisation
%@ 2456-3714
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2455747118790422
%X This article explores the process of urbanisation in China in the context of three historical transformations spanning the period 1840¨C2017. During the first two transformations urbanisation took place slowly, with the fragmented development of cities without a systemic character. This laid the foundation for the third historical transformation, the policy of reforms and openness in 1978, which opened up opportunities for the development of cities and stimulated a wave of internal labour migration. Over the last 30 years, urbanisation in China has acquired a huge scale, becoming a powerful tool for the development of the country¡¯s economy. Initially a spontaneous development, in the 2000s urbanisation began to acquire a strategically planned approach. In 2014, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC Central Committee) announced the adoption of a ¡®National New-Type Urbanisation Plan¡¯ (2014¨C2020), which marked a qualitative transition in terms of the management of the urbanisation process. This article argues that a nuanced historical analysis of China¡¯s urbanisation is key to studying its urban future
%K China
%K urbanisation
%K urban planning
%K the National New-Type Urbanisation Plan
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2455747118790422