China's New National Urbanization Plan (2014-20) sets ambitious targets for sustainable, human-centered, and environmentally friendly urbanization. This title features policy-focused contributions from leading social scientists in the US and China who explore challenges ranging from migration and labor markets to agglomeration economies, land finance, affordable housing, and education policy.

Karen Eggleston is the director of the Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC). She is a fellow at Stanford's Center for Health Policy/Primary Care and Outcomes Research and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Jean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics in the department of political science and a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Oi is the founding director of the China Program at Shorenstein APARC and the Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University.

Wang Yiming is vice president and senior research fellow at the Development Research Center of the State Council, People's Republic of China. Previously he was with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), where he served for many years as executive vice president of the Academy of Macroeconomics Research and deputy secretary general of the NDRC.