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Can China Really Urbanize?

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Philip Bowring
Nov 05, 2013
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Plenty of ideas for driving China toward being a modern economy are on view in the run-up to the Party Plenum – interest rate liberalization, rural land rights, abolition of the hukou system, competition for state enterprises, etc., showing that top advisory bodies know what should be done even if vested interests stand in the way.

Meanwhile, however, th…

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