Chunjiang Liu, Xiaohui Shen, Pisheng Zhou, Shengquan Che, Yanling Zhang and Guangrong Shen

In: UA Magazine No. 13 - Trees and Cities - Growing Together

Over the last 20 years, a rapid process of urbanisation has taken place in China due to increasing economic development. Between 1983 and 2003, the number of cities and towns in China increased 2.5 times to about 50,000, and the urban population reached the level of about 40% of the total population in the country.