Abstract:Urbanization is perhaps one of the most important human activities that creats enormous impacts on environment at the local, regional and global scales. The urbanization process is the urban sprawl and the absorption of adjacent villages into the city. From the 1950s to the 1980s in China there were restrictions on the migration of people from rural to urban areas of the country. These restrictions were due to “the registered permanent residence policy” which in turn limited employment opportunities in Chin...