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He said he was hunting for high-grade copper, bauxite, iron ore and coal resources, the minerals that China needs to fuel its urbanisation.

The amount of waste that countries produce tends to grow in tandem with their economies, and especially with the rate of urbanisation.

Many countries are undergoing that sort of transition now, and therefore urbanisation is accelerating.

These, the bank thinks, are the real problems of urbanisation, not the multiplication of slums or congestion.

Mr Li said the high cost of housing could hamper future growth by slowing urbanisation.

In the long run, China is in a fast process of industrialisation and urbanisation, with huge demand for investment and consumption.

Urbanisation has been one of the main driving forces and by some calculations the process is only half-complete.

China's urbanisation plans and growing consumer market are likely to make it the anchor of the regional economy for several decades to come.

This is taking the form of investment in such things as roads and airports and is part of the urbanisation of these regions.

But China will still see rapid economic growth over the next few years on the back of urbanisation, so land prices will rise pretty quickly.

Urbanisation and industrialisation are both increasing demand for water, at a time when climate change is disrupting supply.

Chinese urbanisation could, as McKinsey says, be the biggest business opportunity of the next several decades.

Indeed, urbanisation has been and will likely continue to be an important factor contributing to strong economic growth on Mainland China.

First, industrialisation and urbanisation will continue to be powerful engines for China's economic development.

With the socioeconomic change from rural to industrial, Spain has experienced an enormous urbanisation boom during the last 20 years.

Central to the bullish argument is an almost religious belief in the power of Chinese urbanisation.

Moreover, urbanisation must be viable in the long run; the system needs to change so that migrant workers become rooted in cities.

Some believe it will decentralise the business completely, reversing the urbanisation that accompanies industrialisation.

The country's ongoing urbanisation, which is seeing about 20m people a year move from the countryside, will continue to power consumption.

US fast-food chains have been one of the most visible phenomena of China's rapid urbanisation.

Fast growth, urbanisation and surging literacy seem not to have affected the trend.

This provides the opening example of the book's thesis, explored in thematic chapters ranging from urbanisation to natural resources.

Rapid urbanisation and a growing middle class will continue to underpin housing demand.

Industrialisation and urbanisation are driving demand for aluminium for uses including construction, packaging, cars and aircraft.

During its current rapid economic transition, urbanisation is creating new opportunities and new challenges for maintaining social orders.

The full force of the fastest transformation in human history is directed at industrialisation, urbanisation and the rise of consumerism .

Since then, ever-larger slabs of the iron-rich red earth have been transported to China to make the steel for China's mammoth urbanisation.

In the current surge of urbanisation and dam building, billions of tonnes of concrete have been poured onto farm fields and into rivers.

Urbanisation is part of the solution to Africa's demographic problems, not a manifestation of them.

Rising crime over recent decades owes much to urbanisation and low economic growth, but in part it is also the legacy of authoritarian rule.

And in poorer nations generally the proportion of urban poor is actually increasing faster than the rate of urbanisation.

An important part of the explanation may simply be the additional choice of mates that development and urbanisation bring with them.

Urbanisation, industrialisation and intensive agriculture will put huge pressure on each country's environment.

Destruction of habitats by urbanisation or agriculture can eliminate stopover areas and herd more animals to the few remaining sites.

China is still in the early stages of urbanisation.

Across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, rapid urbanisation is increasing the demand for roads, water, power, housing and factories.

He is critical too of the urbanisation of China, seeing it as deliberate policy to ensure a supply of cheap labour for the "WMP" .

The industrialisation and urbanisation of China is the main driver of the so-called supercycle.

Manufacturing will remain strong on the back of continuing rapid urbanisation and associated domestic demand.

The pace of urbanisation of the Mainland of China, when put against the experience of other economies, has been rapid.

It is thus largely a phenomenon of poor and middle-income countries; the rich world has put most of its urbanisation behind it.

It also depends on how the urbanisation is conducted.

To become a developed country in two decades, China must aim to increase its urbanisation to 75 per cent by then.

The agreement comes as Chinese companies' commodities consumption booms amid the country's rapid urbanisation.

When money was plentiful, they would have easy financing and could accelerate urbanisation.

The pattern in which cities develop will also affect the economic impact of urbanisation.

But urbanisation is a hallmark of a developing economy.

Such mass urbanisation helped fuel Japan's industrial miracle in the 1960s and is transforming China and India today.

Growth may have slowed in China and India, but the urbanisation that drives demand for copper and steel seems bound to resume before long.

The most dramatic urbanisation has been taking place in China, with many millions of people moving from the countryside to cities.

Under the pressures of urbanisation, larger animal species are rarely seen, but reptiles, amphibians, birds and insects are still common.

China's rapid urbanisation and economic expansion helped them weather the recent recession in the rich world.

Despite the relatively high population density and degree of urbanisation, there are still many unspoilt rural and coastal areas.

The anchor for domestic demand must be urbanisation.

One Chinese academic has described the result as "counterfeit urbanisation" : cities full of people who cannot enjoy much of city life.

Urbanisation decreases the likelihood of trees being felled for heating and building.

To be sure, structural forces such as demography and rising global prosperity make increased urbanisation inevitable.

But emissions levels are secondary to the more immediate challenges of rapid urbanisation.

Agricultural production has risen in spite of the fact that some farmland has been lost to urbanisation.

The researchers said rapid economic growth was partly to blame, through urbanisation, changed diets and more sedentary life styles.

Local governments drive urbanisation.

The residential segment is the largest driver of demand and the rapid urbanisation is driving the market.

India's slums give the impression that urbanisation has reached saturation point.

However, the focal point of the urbanisation boom is China, which has an estimated 65m vacant properties.

This could happen either when the favourable demographic trend worsens or urbanisation ends.

China's drive for industrialisation and urbanisation is gathering pace.

Rapid urbanisation, abetted by cheap credit, lies behind the boom.

Although China's rulers have embraced urbanisation, they still seem wary of mega-cities.

"This is a very distorted model of urbanisation that cannot go on for ever, " says Prof Tao.

Can workers grab a bigger share of the economic pie before the urbanisation process is complete?

The peat swamps were damaged by forest fires in 1997, and are also threatened by logging, urbanisation and agriculture.

The demographic surge has been accompanied by rapid urbanisation: seven out of ten Iranians now live in cities.

There stands a satellite town where the pace of urbanisation seemsrelentless.

Obesity affects rich countries, of course: it is a symptom of affluence and urbanisation.

David Cash, BDP's international director, said it hoped to tap into China's urbanisation.

As with all booms, urbanisation promises huge wealth.

Both are in South Gobi province, which borders China. They will help meet the ravenous needs of China's hectic urbanisation.

Tang Hao reports on the harmful effects of rapid urbanisation in the Pearl River delta.

Decades of rapid economic growth and urbanisation has had the unfortunate consequence of environmental degradation in China.

In China mass migrations associated with rapid catch-up growth and urbanisation are often blamed for causing instability.

So China's true urbanisation ratio may already be close to Japan's in 1970.

China says it wants urbanisation, and it certainly needs it. But even as some obstacles are removed, new ones spring up.

China does indeed need tall buildings in the process of urbanisation as the country has a large population.

In future urbanisation will indeed become harder.

The urbanisation of emerging economies is real.

Physical demand in China is set to be boosted by the huge urbanisation under way.

For a start, the process of urbanisation still has a long way to run.

China's urbanisation strategy should focus on building 30 mega-cities of more than 20 million residents each.

The shift of diet will be impossible to reverse since it is a product of rising wealth and urbanisation.

Urbanisation is another.

Urbanisation is another.

They will help meet the ravenous needs of China's hectic urbanisation.

China says it wants urbanisation, and it certainly needs it.

But the size and scale of industrialisation and urbanisation in China are unprecedented.

This implies a slower pace of urbanisation than in the past decade.

Affluence and urbanisation mean new kinds of unhealthy lifestyles.

In China, water scarcity limits growth and urbanisation escalates a crisis, say James G Workman and Montgomery F Simus .

Today, Africa has a level of urbanisation nearly as high as China's with 52 cities of more than 1m people.

For the past two decades or more, urbanisation in China has come relatively easily.

Combined with high urbanisation rates, this means a high level of residential investment can be sustained for a long time in China.

Currently the Chinese urbanisation ratio is 45 per cent, roughly where Japan was in 1964.

This is that the mixing-up of people caused by the urbanisation which normally accompanies development is, itself, partly responsible.

Urbanisation is a huge issue in developing countries. . . cities there cannot cope with housing and urban service needs.

And the Chinese urbanisation rate will be about half what it is today.

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