New urban-rural relations will allow people living outside cities equal participation in modernization and better property rights, says a communique.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will set up a central leading team for "comprehensively deepening reform," it was announced after a key CPC meeting closed here Tuesday.
The Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC may be a good opportunity to push the country's ambitious urbanization bid.
Premier Li Keqiang said China will make a new effort in agricultural modernization by promoting large-scale planting and better services to the farmers.
The management of China's hukou, or household registration, system has failed to keep pace with urbanization, a research institution has warned.
China's urban land prices have increased for six consecutive quarters, according to a survey by China's land price monitor on Tuesday.
Home prices rise further in Sept
Many Chinese companies in the smart city industry do not worry about competition from international companies, but about funding.
Right now, as all IT engineers will tell you, with its ambitious urbanization drive, China is going to be the world's largest smart city lab.
China prepares for smart city construction boom
Li Wei, who took a vacation to escape her big city life, did not expect her short stay in the small coastal city in China's Hainan province, to be so "digital".
If urbanization is an inevitable process for a country's development, leaders' understanding of what kind of city urban dwellers should have makes a great difference to whether the process will be conducive to the country's long-term sustainable development.
China's property market picked up over the week-long national holiday, with most first-tier cities seeing obvious rises both in new home transaction volume and home prices.
Chinese civil affairs authorities responded to criticism of a proposed house-for-pension eldercare program, calling for greater understanding.