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正Healthy City(健康城市jiàn kāng chéng shì):According to WHO,a Healthy City isa city that is continuously striving to improve the health and determinants of health of its residents,not one that has achieved a particular health status.In1989,China launched a national Hygienic Cities project to improve cities’physical infrastructure and environment,which     

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正Left-Behind Children(留守儿童liú shǒuér tóng):Left-behind children refer to those who are left in the countryside with both or one of their parents migrating out to work.Generally they live along with one of their parents,grandparents,even other relatives or friends of their parents.As a special disadvantaged group,left-behind children have aroused wide-spread social concern as an outstanding social issue in Chinese processing of fast urbanization.     

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<正>Editor's Note:In recent years,when China stepped into the era of urban society,urbanization has become a hot issue that attracts the attention from all societal aspects,including both the academia and the political field.Taking that into consideration,the fact that Liangyong WU was awarded China's National Grand Prize of Science and Technology in2012for his long-term explorations on the Sciences of Human Settlements can be regarded as     

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<正>Editor’s Note:Nowadays,when China is undergoing the transition to the new normal after more than three decades of rapid development,it is facing the challenge of reforming its spatial planning system which is undoubtedly indispensable for guaranteeing the development of new urbanization.Currently in China,spatial planning mainly refers to the socio-economic development planning,land use planning,and urban-rural planning,which is respectively under the     

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<正>Editor's Note: Since China became an urban society after its urbanization rate surpassed 50% in 2011, the Central Government of China has put forward the concept of New Urbanization Mode in order to deal with the problems emerging in the past decades along with the significant achievements of urban development     

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<正>Editor’s Note:Today,as the world is in the transition from an industrial civilization to an ecological civilization,we need to accordingly update our knowledge and concepts on socio-economic development,following the principles     

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Editor's Note: In the history of city development, traditional Chinese cities as a whole had been for a long time a unique school in the world, because of their distinctive features in city form, cityscape, architecture,     

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Dual-Circulation(双循环shuāng xún huán):The concept of building the new development pattern ofdualcirculationfeatured by the mutual promotion between the domestic and the international economic development was firstly put forward by the CPC Central Committee in May 2020 and reaffirmed later the same year by the 14;Five-Year Plan as a critical strategy of China,with focus primarily on the domestic circulation.     

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Editor’s Note:As an ancient country,China has a long history of city planning,but it has never been so anxious for new theories and methodologies of city planning as it does today.In the past,     

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正Editor’s Note:After holding the Working Conference on Cities at the end of 2015,which advocates for China’s sustainable urban development approaches including transforming development mode,completing governance institution,enhancing governance capability,and coping with certain urgent issues such as urban diseases,the Central Government of China issued an affiliated policy in late February 2016,Some Opinions on Further Enhancing the     

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<正>Comprehensive Disaster Prevention and Reduction Planning(综合防灾减灾规划zōng hé fáng zāi jiǎn zǎi gūi huà):In China,the comprehensive disaster prevention and reduction planning is an important part of socio-economic development planning at both the national and local levels,as well as a special plan of city master planning.Through the past years,its focus has been shifted from post-disaster rescue to pre-disaster prevention,from responding to a single disaster to targeting at multiple disasters,and from disaster     

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正Residential Space Differentiation(居住空间分异j zhù k ng jin fn yì):It refers to a segregated living phenomenon in a city.Residents with different social features live in different areas of the city,making the residential space of the city be differentiated or even isolated from each other.The residential space differentiation emerged in Chinese cities after the mairketization of housing.It has become more obvious along with the introduction of affordable housing policies,for     

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<正>Editor’s Note:The observation on China’s urban development since the 1950s till today reveals that it has been closely related to the construction of a number of mega-projects,such as the 156 industrial projects aided by the former Soviet Union in the 1950s,theThree Lineswar preparation projects in the 1960s,the directly imported production projects from the West in the 1970s,the special development zone projects in the 1980s,and the industrial or economic development zone projects in the 1990s.That makes the construction of mega-projects a key character of China’s contemporary urban development,which has greatly influenced not only the socio-economic development but also the physical environment of Chinese cities.During this process,urban design,as an important complement     

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<正>Editor’s Note:The idea of building China into a socialist rule-of-law country was firstly put forward on the 15th CPC National Congress in September 1997 and it has now become one of China’s fundamental strategies for governing the country.The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee held in October 2014 further confirmed China’s goal of forming a system serving the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics and building a country under the socialist rule of law,     

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<正>Brownfield(棕地zōng dì):Brownfield refers to the abandoned and polluted lands for industrial,commercial,and other uses.It appeared firstly in the industrial cities of developed countries in the late 1950s and early 1960s,along with the shift of productions and the closing of factories as inevitable consequence of the socio-economic transition from industrialization to postindustrialization and the process of globalization.     

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正National Governance (国家治理guójiāzhìlǐ):In 2019, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) proposed to transform institutional strength into effective governance,which closely linked the national institutional system with its implementation effectiveness and further emphasized themodernization of national governance system and capacity.     

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<正>Taobao village(淘宝村táo bao cun):Along with the development of e-commerce in China,a large number of Taobao villages have emerged in the rural areas of Guangdong,Zhejiang,Jiangsu,and other provinces since 2009.It refers to the village specialized in online electronic commerce,which has more than 10%households engaged in online trading and a total of e-commerce     

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Editor’s Note:When talking about the rapid urbanization of China taking place unprecedentedly in the past decades,due attention should be paid to some unique issues full of Chinese characteristics,which include the development of urban villages.Simply speaking,the urban villages refer to the villages in the rural areas at the     

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Editor’s Note:During the rapid urbanization of China in the past 30 years,the development of new urban areas and new cities and the renovation of old cities are two key factors.Generally speaking,the urban renewal in China mainly refers to the redevelopment of the industrial areas and the renovation of the residential quarters in the built-up areas of a city.As an