Many middle-class urban residents with secular outlooks back the calls for harsher sentences at the war-crimes tribunal.
Pensions are to be made available for everyone, not just those enjoying the privileged status of registered urban residents.
Many urban residents have had their houses knocked down with inadequate compensation, to make way for government-backed construction projects.
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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.
But the leadership's biggest concern would be the impact on urban residents, whose discontent could more readily precipitate an organised challenge to the party's rule.
But China where urban residents are at barely half that level has made travel affordable by booking tickets in bulk and bargaining mercilessly for hotels in distant suburbs.
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.
In the past decade, China made improvements to the daily conditions of 65.3 million urban residents without shelter, while India lifted 59.7 million citizens out of poor housing.
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.
The per-capita income gap between the incomes of the top 10% and bottom 10% of urban residents rose from 9x (based on the official data) to 26x, after the adjustment.
Today the mechanisms are different, such as the "land grabs" in which officials take plots from farmers and urban residents with minimal compensation and sell them on to real estate developers.
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.
Pension coverage for urban residents has expanded from 155 million in 2003, when Mr. Hu took over, to 304 million in 2012, according to data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
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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After four years in office Mr Wen has yet to announce any ideas for addressing one of the public's biggest concerns, namely the prohibitive cost of medical treatment for many urban and rural residents.
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.
Worse still, the system of household registration, or hukou, defines even long-staying urban migrants as rural residents, cutting them out of housing, education and other benefits.
The number is notable for a country criticized for its environmental record while trying to bridge a wide income gap between urban dwellers and rural residents who lack access to modern energy services.
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