Pensions are to be made available for everyone, not just those enjoying the privileged status of registered urban residents.
That means that 10 million to 13 million farmers will become urban residents.
Some Chinese people were consuming an excessive amount of meat, oils and fats and not enough cereal, especially urban residents.
In effect, Chongqing and Chengdu have created a new class of urban residents who enjoy the best of both worlds.
Marsella said Denver's suburban and exurban commuters were as enthusiastic as its urban residents in approving the multibillion dollar project in 2004.
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Even though urban health care receives a disproportionate share of total government spending on health, many urban residents fare just as badly.
Critics also point out that the social-housing programme will mostly benefit urban residents, whose household-registration certificates, or hukou, identify them as city residents.
The prohibitive expense of urban health care for those not registered as permanent urban residents forces migrant labourers to return to their villages.
And the main contributors to growth will be exports (mainly from the more prosperous coastal regions), consumption (primarily by urban residents) and investment (mainly in cities).
One reason for the scarcity of long-distance drivers is that air travel became affordable and convenient for many urban residents before car ownership began to grow.
But if the government is to achieve its ambition of establishing community hospitals for the country's 500m urban residents, it will need 160, 000 doctors to staff them.
The lives of almost all urban residents were profoundly disrupted.
The environmental costs levied on China's 400 million urban residents pale in comparison, however, to those faced by the country's more than 800 million farmers and other rural residents.
In Afghanistan, the extra money will allow food aid to reach an additional 2.5 million people, almost half of whom are urban residents priced out of the wheat market, the WFP said.
Most urban residents own their home.
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Migrants without an urban hukou spend 30% less than otherwise similar urban residents, according to research by Binkai Chen of the Central University of Finance and Economics, Ming Lu of Fudan University and Ninghua Zhong of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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China has done the easy part: attracting underemployed young rural residents to urban jobs.
The government wants to move many tens of millions of rural residents into urban areas in the coming decade.
Residents in big urban blue states, such as California and New York, will be socked hardest.
When rural residents move to urban areas, they tend to do more economically productive work, learn more skills, earn more money, and buy more goods.
The subsidy guidelines encouraged builders to construct on pricier land closer to urban areas, so that residents benefit from existing infrastructure and shorter commutes, and to erect apartment towers rather than town homes.
Rats trying to keep their feet dry are moving into urban areas creating a problem for residents.
In 1991, some of Xalapa's poorest residents aligned with an urban planning group and devised a remarkable plan designed to give them a sense that they belonged to -- and were respected by -- their community.
True farmers markets, where small farms operators bring their crops to urban and suburban locations to sell directly to residents, have experienced dramatic growth over the past 15 years.
Now called the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, the urban transformation has slowly attracted a new set of residents and business owners.
In Connecticut, where utility rates are the highest in the U.S. after Hawaii, residents who once adored living in an urban forest are getting increasingly frustrated by massive power failures that many fear could become a chronic problem.
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He added that while the area studied in the current research included both urban and rural regions, the health concerns of Athens residents could be at least as great.
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Among them are a space heater for residents of the Himalayas, a water heater for urban Indians and Airvest, a garment that he says could save the lives of painters working in industrial spray booths and trim energy bills too.
Among them: a space heater for residents of the Himalayas, a water heater for urban Indians, and Airvest, a garment he says could save the lives of painters working in industrial spray booths and trim energy bills at the same time.
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