Extremer always seems silly to make comments on current state of affairs in China with regard to urbanization and industrialization or any topic that interests him. Not all information he gets about China from press is certified. Seeing is believing.
Has anyone here heard of the stories of township and village enterprises in China that provide not only jobs for farmers and city dwellers but also make locals become millionaires and billionaires as well?
Urbanization doesn’t necessarily mean city sprawling like development of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. It is towns, smaller cities that play a vital role in modernization drive in Chinese context. When people make their complaints over Hukou or resident registration system in China, why not choose to live in towns and smaller cities instead where the air is much fresher and the sky is cleaner?
Shenzhen is one of the few coast cities to be benefited from the open up policy in the beginning of the reform, and has turned into a workshop ever since where ‘handshake’ buildings come into view when you take a trip there either by land or by air. In order to reduce production cost or labor cost, factory owners ( private owners or bosses of joint ventures) set up such buildings to maximize profits.
The first practical step forward for urbanization may be the one to relocate social resources like prestigious hospitals and sports facilities, which will rebalance development model so as to narrow the gap between rural and urban areas, In the meantime, avoid over-expanding cities.
I have been to a remote village in the US, and all the doctors working with a clinic are practicing physicians with the one being an expert on gynecology and obstetrics as the head of the clinic. And the clinic is equipped with the most sophisticated apparatuses to be installed in any hospital in New York. Contrary to that, few doctors in rural areas in China are medical graduates, and worse, unduly payment takes ethics off their profession.
