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Urban Planning in China: Suggested Edits.
Urban planning was given extensive attention post-1949, particularly as part of the First Five Year-Plan. Urban migration stayed below 20%, with city planning primarily supporting urban industries and limiting opportunities for migrating into cities from rural areas. In 1958, The Great Leap Forward shifted the country's focus towards industrialization. Rural people were moved to factory jobs and city dwellings en mass, straining infrastructure. The country recovered slowly. Eventually, in 1979, formal urban planning efforts in China were restored and promoted due to the adoption of reform and open policy, causing consistent urban growth. The economic boom ushered in by Deng Xiaoping increased funding to major city planning works, including urban revitalization and renewal projects. Architecture of this era was influence by a re-connection with global designs, including noteworthy examples such as I. M. Pei's the Beijing Xiang Shan Hotel. As understandings of pollution became more comprehensive, urban planning began to focus on creating more environmentally sustainable developments, while also preserving historic aesthetics. Currently, urban planning in China run on multiple levels of government. This central planning approach ensures each city follows the national economic plan, exists in a cohesive design with other cities, and is funded by an informed government. Urban planning in China focuses to guide and comprehensively regulate urban construction to ensure the rational development, construction and implementation of the national economic plan that serves as the nation's master planning document. The central government has established a tiered planning and legal system to guide, implement and regulate urban development and construction in accordance with the national economic plan.