Sustainable Cities for a Billion: China's Daunting Challenges in Urbanization
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This discussion seminar will be introduced by QI Ye, professor and director of the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing. The seminar is part of Ifri's China Project research program for 2009 on Social mutations and land settlement in China. It will be chaired by Valérie Niquet, director of the Centre Asie, Ifri (seminar in english).
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