Challenges facing China's unbalanced urbanization strategy

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.