1998 年 26 巻 p. 345-350
Shanghai, the largest city in China, has been experiencing an unprecedented rapid development. The object of the development is, first, restructuring the old urban district that carries many municipal problems caused by the international settlement; second, making a great commercial and economic development through the New Open Door Policy in a new financial and trade zone, Pudong New Area.
Though the Shanghai Municipal Government made great efforts to protect the environment in the process of development, the influence of the large scale exploitation makes the present condition improve little, even worse. Some new social problems have broken out through the urbanizing process. One of the serious problems is complete transfiguration around rural communities. As the removal of industrial factories progresses, the rural traditional formation has been disappearing. Besides this, many aged people compelled to remove are facing difficulties in adapting to new lives in new residential areas.
These problems give us the follow lessens:(1) Changing the environmental policy is necessary at all times as urbanization progresses.(2) It is also important to concern much about the compensation for peasants.