《中国城市状况报告2012/2013》凝聚了联合国人居署、国际欧亚科学院中国科学中心、中国市长协会和中国城市规划学会四方的共同努力。本书记载了中国中央和地方各级政府的各类新举措，包括使农村流动人口的生活在就业、教育、养老、医疗和住房保障方面与城市居民的生活看齐，在2011-2015 年间为低收入家庭修建3600 万套住房，加强防灾减灾制度，扩大中国农村地区的扶贫项目以及建立和示范低碳生态城市和社区等。 

This title, State of China’s Cities, is a joint effort between UN-HABITAT, China Science Center of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and China Association of Mayors. This report, covers five strategic steps to nurture and grow smarter cities.

It aims to make easy access of international readers to the information about policies and practices that have engendered smart urbanization of China in the past 60 years. It also provides the experiences, lessons and challenges faced by China in sustaining its urban development in the context of rapid industrialization and urbanization within a globalizing world.

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This title, State of China’s Cities, is a joint effort between UN-HABITAT, China Science Center of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and China Association of Mayors. This report, covers five strategic steps to nurture and grow smarter cities. It aims to make easy access of international readers to the information about policies and practices that have engendered smart urbanization of China in the past 60 years. It also provides the experiences, lessons and challenges faced by China in sustaining its urban development in the context of rapid industrialization and urbanization within a globalizing world.  

This report discribes the main challenges for low income housing and approaches for tackling low income housing in China

A picture book showing the design of the United Nations Pavilion at the Shanghai EXPO 2010.

The Sustainable Cities Programme was first implemented in 1996 in Shenyang and Wuhan, in China. From this initial experience, the environmental Planning and Management methodology was integrated in urban management to address pressing environmental concerns, such as air pollution, water quality, solid waste management and urban traffic. Innovative participatory and environmental governance mechanisms were tested, promoting sustainable natural, economic and social development of both cities through the implementation of demonstration projects. As a result, environmental awareness increased and crosssector and institutional cooperation strengthened.

From the success of the Shenyang and Wuhan experiments, the Sustainable Cities Programme II was set up in 2005 between Administrative Centre for China€hss Agenda 21 and UN-HABITAT. This international project was designed to last three years. Guiyang, Hailin and Panzhihua were chosen as pilot cities of the Sustainable Cities Programme II with three main objectives:

(i) to improve the environmental Planning and Management/Sustainable Cities Programme application and policy implementation processes.

(ii) to develop an institutional framework and networks for sustained environmental Planning and Management support.

(iii) to institutionalize normative functions of the Sustainable Cities Programme.

The criteria used for the pilot-city selection comprised institutional, human and technical capacity, geographical location to balance between southern and western regions, the urbanization trend in relevance to upcoming environmental challenges, strong cross-sector communication and commitment by local authorities, project feasibility as well as the identification of positive outputs for city environment/development.

This report examines the housing problems in China about two decades ago. It describes the miracle China has made in the field of housing and urban development in the face of such a rapid urbanization. It illustrates how China achieve such a great achievement through the case studies in Yantai and describes the types of housing and urban upgrading initiatives in Yantai. It illustrates how the housing and urban upgrading projects are financed.