Rise,Growth and Evolution of the Chinese Urban System

The paper explores the rise,historical growth and evolution of the Chinese urban sys-tem in its spatial context and the implication of these characteristics for the spatial distri-bution of cities and economic activity,the pattern of interaction,and the processes ofgrowth and change.The growth of modern city links with its development history,geographical condi-tions,economic basis and political systems of a country.There has been rapidurbanization in China during the last several decades,as in other developing countries.The purpose of this paper is to review the rise.growth,evolution and development ofChinese urban system in the time-spatial context.First,when did the initial cities emerge?Second,when did the Chinese urban system rise? Third,how did the urban system growand evolute?