Population development and urbanization in China
Lecture: Population development in ethnic minorities in China
Professor Lu, Zhaohe, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan China
Population development (demographic change) is an important part of modernisation. Whether the new social paradigm of the modern transformation of population in developed countries is applicable to developing countries, especially for China with 55 national minorities, is an interesting and important issue. Based on data from the 6th National Census of China, Professor Lu will discuss changing conditions and characteristics of China’s 55 national minority populations in the course of modernization and he will explain the correlation between population development and modernization.
Lecture: Urbanization in China
Professor Luo, Chun, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Urbanization is an enormous phenomenon in contemporary China. Urbanization promotes dramatic social changes and poses great challenges in China, such as massive rural-urban migration leading to a rural-urban population structural reversal, as well as too rapid expansion of metropolis. The presentation aims to show the ongoing process of urbanization, its characteristics and problems it creates using statistical data. Specifically, Professor Luo will focus on the puzzle of “peri-urbanization” in China, the situation of rural migrant workers in cities, and government policies for a new model of urbanization.