When it comes to cities and urbanization, it is generally thought that bigger is better. But a pair of recent studies suggests that although industrialized nations may have benefited from larger ...

A comprehensive 40-year study (1981–2020) of 587 major Chinese lakes reveals that urbanization is a key driver of accelerated ...

While growth in the U.S. convenience store category continues to climb, international c-store expansion also is surging in some areas, in large part due to changes in consumers’ lifestyles and ...

Thank you very much Vice Minister Liu Shijin for this very kind introduction. I am glad to join you and Chairman Xu Shaoshi today to discuss this very important topic. Let me start by stepping back ...

76% of developing world’s poor live in rural areas Nearly 830 million people live in slums Final sprint needed in countdown to MDGs April 17, 2013 - The move to cities goes hand in hand with human ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. After my post two days ago about urbanization—i.e., the general desire to make big ...

As part of China’s reform program, urbanization continues to make gradual progress. The process has been ongoing since 2014, under the National New Urbanization Plan, with a focus on people-centered ...

ASTANA — The population of Kazakhstan reached 20,478,879 people as of Dec. 1, 2025, according to the Bureau of National ...