This book provides scholars and operators all over the world with an opportunity for direct insight into the most dynamic approaches to town-planning in China today. With authority and keeping an eye on the latest international cultural trends, Qiu Baoxing outlines the vision and the problems of the extraordinary transformation that, over the next twenty years, will change China's economic and social scenario and with it the condition of hundreds of millions of inhabitants of the country. Urbanization and Harmonized Society, Energy-saving and Green Building, Environmental Friendliness and Urban Water Problem, Urban Planning System Renovation and Harmony, Urban Rural Overall Planning and Construction,Municipal Public Utilities,Urbanization and Resources Preservation are the problems on which Qiu Baoxing - leading institutional player in the transformations now taking place - expresses his far-reaching and definitely interesting thoughts in his book. About the author: Vice minister at Ministry of Construction in the Republic of China, long experience in Urban Planning, author of several publications related to the current urbanization in China.
