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122935
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By developing and using indexes reflecting "quasi-urban" status, this paper attempts to quantitatively estimate the "invisible" contribution of in situ urbanisation to the overall urbanisation process in the county areas of Fujian Province. The results show that the urbanisation level of the county areas in Fujian Province would be significantly increased if the urban characteristics resulting from in situ urbanisation were fully reflected, suggesting that the conventional urban statistics seriously underestimate the true extent of rural-urban transformation in the county areas. Furthermore, such underestimation is more serious in the coastal areas with most dynamic socioeconomic development, and thus distorts the true picture of the spatial pattern of rural-urban transformation. The paper explores the implications of the above results for the understanding of China's urbanisation process, suggesting that rural-urban transformation and the corresponding planning practice in China should be conceptualised in the context of blurred rural-urban distinction and more important roles for rural areas in the urbanisation process.
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164057
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The Free Economic Zone of Xiamen, which has been acting as China's window to the outside world for 37 years, an experimental field of reforms and openness, has made a significant contribution to the economic restructuring and socialist modernization of the country. The experience of Xiamen deserves a comprehensive and deep analysis. Based on the facts set out in the article, the authors attempt to assess the prospects for the development of the Xiamen SEZ.
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113520
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2012.
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This paper highlights how states attempt to control migrant mobilities through refugee claims. We examine the representations and practices of refugees in the refugee claimant process over time and in very different cases with distinct geopolitical influences and inflections in Canada. Our paper is based on case studies of Sri Lankan Tamil migrants in Toronto and refugee claimants from Fujian province, China, that landed in British Columbia in 1999. We analyse the ways that geopolitics influence every phase of the refugee claimant process, from the representations of claimants, to the decisions made about refugee claims, and the tenor of mundane encounters with state authorities. Our findings indicate that the geopolitics of migrant mobilities are produced through everyday state practices as well as by migrant strategies to move and resettle.
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112843
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2012.
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The competency of the Chinese health bureaucracy has long been questioned in light of past healthcare reform failures. This article, however, by analysing the case of the Fujian Provincial Health Bureau and a policy intervention led by it aimed at curbing rampant cost inflation, demonstrates that with a conducive political environment and firm policy determination, it is possible to achieve effective cost containment without touching fundamental economic levers. The health bureaucracy is not inherently incapable. It still possesses essential authority and policy instruments to exercise strong stewardship. The reassertion of its legitimacy, reinforcement of government stewardship, restoration of the collapsed accountability mechanisms and realignment of government tools epitomise the experiences of Fujian's healthcare reforms.
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086858
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2009.
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At first glance, the city of Changle seems like any other bustling boomtown on the southern coast of China, Cranes punctuate the horizon, signaling the construction of shopping centers, office towers, and luxury hotels.The local population has given up bicycles for cars, and old roads are widened, while new roads paved every day.
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