Chaolin Gu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University in China. He mainly engages in urban and regional planning, urban geography, and regional economy. He has published 26 monographs, 3 textbooks, 5 translations, and more than 360 peer-reviewed academic papers. He has been ranked at the top of many academic influence lists in China and worldwide.

Chapter 1 Urbanization and its essence.- Chapter 2 Theoretical framework of China's urbanization research.- Chapter 3 China's urbanization in a globalizing world.- Chapter 4 China's urbanization space.- Chapter 5 China's urbanization process.- Chapter 6 China's urbanization modes.- Chapter 7 Influential factors of China's urbanization.- Chapter 8 Prospect of China's urbanization.- References.