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8 China outlines roadmap to build better cities

Feb. 22, 2016 (China Daily) -- Chinese central authorities on Sunday issued guidelines on urban development; two months after leaders met for the Central Urban Work Conference and promised to make China's sprawling cities more livable and green. The document, from the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, set the basic principles, key tasks and targets for future urban development and management, aiming to ensure the cities are "orderly constructed, properly developed, and eff i ciently operated". The last time China held a meeting like the Central Urban Work Conference was in 1978, when only 18 percent of the population lived in cities. That had increased to 56.1 percent by the end of 2015.