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Challenges facing China’s unbalanced urbanization strategy 董贝 2015200792 刘佳佳 2015200802 Abstract China has taken a “great leap forward” in urbanization, but the resulting unbalanced development strategy seems likely to lead to unsustainable socioeconomic development, including increasing income disparities, waste of resources, environmental degradation, damage to China’s natural and cultural heritages,growing social turbulence, and consequences for the rest of the world. To solve these problems,China’s government must adjust its economic strategy to balance rural and urban development and to seek more sustainable socioeconomic development. The article body Since the economic reforms that began in the 1980s, China’s government has encouraged an unbalanced development strategybased on decentralization of decision-making, the development of a market economy, and globalization. As a result, socioeconomic development planning prioritizes urbanization and economic development, particularly in eastern China. The urbanization trend created by this focus has proceeded at an amazing rate (Fan andQi, 2010), with urban areas absorbing more than 15 million new-comers each year (Peng, 2011). Analysis of Landsat TM and ETM+ images illustrates that the scale of urbanization in China has grown exponentially, reaching more than 2 times its 1990 level by 2011,when 16.5 × 103km2 of arable land had become urbanized (MEP,2012). By 2011, 51.3% of China’s population lived in cities, versus17.9% in 1978 (NBS, 2012). Large-scale urban construction continues to occur throughout China, which had 669 large cities (with a population 0.5×106) in2007, up from 223 in 1980 and 69 in 1947, and in 2007, China had 89 cities with a population of 1×106 or more, versus only 37 in the United States and 32 in India (Normile, 2008). Moreover, about 260million Chinese people are living far from their birthplace, and most of them are rural migrants who are living and working in urban area