Steep Challenges for a Chinese Eco-City

New York Times: Fifty years ago, during a time of food shortages, China's young socialist government singled out a few farm villages as role models for the nation, saying that their high crop yields made them examples that other communities could learn from. Today, facing challenges like runaway urbanization, soaring energy consumption and environmental degradation, China is hoping to establish a different set of paragons. With its cities expected to swell by another 350 million residents in the next 25 years,...

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