Photo: Students of The Political Economy of Urbanisation in China and Asia: Globalisation and Uneven Development, enjoying the one-day field trip exploring the inner city of Beijing lead by course ...

HONG KONG/BEIJING--Mary Meng is so busy and stressed ... goods and services than their rural counterparts. But the fresh urbanization push overlooks basic demographic theory.

Kabul has the most polluted air amongst Afghan cities in the sample, with an annual mean concentration of 86 mg/m 3, which is higher than the recorded annual mean concentration for Beijing.

TAIPEI--China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers ... policy coming straight from the national capital, Beijing, or from Lhasa, the regional capital," HRW said in the ...