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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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正Three Zones and Three Lines(三区三线sān qūsān xiàn):The term of"three-zones and three lines"comes from the requirements of China’s Central Government to reform its spatial planning system."Three zones"refer to urban space,rural space,and ecological space,and"three lines"refer to urban growth boundary,permanent farmland protection boundary,     

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Editor’s Note: Along with the acceleration of urbanization, and automization as well, more and more Chinese cities, in particular the big ones, have to face the serious challenge of traffic congestion, and the development of public transportation, including the rail transit, has become an effective solution to this headachy problem. In     

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正Construction of Ecological Civilization(生态文明建设sheng tài wén mìng jiàn shè):It refers to the strategic decision ofvigorously promoting the construction of ecological civilizationmade by the Central Government of China on the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012,which requires integrating the ideas of ecological civilization into the all aspects and whole process of economy,politics,culture,and society construction for the sustained development of China.It is included in China’s     

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正Big-Pot Meal(大锅饭dà guō fàn):It is a metaphor for the phenomenon of absolute equalitarianism in distribution,which is mainly used to describe two situations in China particularly under the circumstance of planned economy.①For state-owned enterprises,no matter how their business goes,the due financial allocation from the government would never change;②For the employees of any     

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正Transport Circle(交通圈 jiāo tōng quān): Transport circle refers to the traffic attraction range of a central place,which is represented by the coverage scope defined by the cut-off points of traffic flow on its traffic lines. It is often used to form other relative concepts regarding transportation. In September 2019,     

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Editor’s Note: Since 2004 when the State Council approved the Medium- and Long-term Railway Network Plan , China has stepped into an era of high-speed railway. By the end of 2009, it had a millage of high-speed railway of 6,552 km in operation, including 3,676 km of new lines to the speed of 250 to 350 km/h and 2,876 km of existing lines updated     

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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     

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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: 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,