ABSTRACT
In 2005, the Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, former chief economist at the World Bank, identified urbanization in China and high-tech development in the United States as the two key factors affecting the twenty-first century. According to official statistics, 1 China’s nominal urbanization reached 54.8 percent in 2014, indicating the beginning of the Chinese urban age. Concerned about Chinese urbanization, scholars pay a great deal of attention to urban agglomerations and metropolitan development, especially those in coastal regions. Many research papers and books have been produced in recent years.
