China Daily

As of last year about 52 percent of Chinese people have lived in urban areas, up from 20 percent some 30 years ago. The same process took Britain about 100 years, the United States 60 years and France 65 years. « Problems that had occurred in different stages of urbanization in these developed countries have mixed together in China due to the speed of growth, » said Wang Guangqian, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, at the meeting.